Education

President Trump's Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education

10:56pm May 22, 2017

by Anya Kamenetz

The White House is expected to ask for big cuts, push school choice and change student loan repayment. But presidents have rarely succeeded in cutting the Education Department budget.

The "Gifted Gap" In North Carolina's Public Schools

4:32pm May 22, 2017

by David Ford

Reporters at The Raleigh News & Observer and Charlotte Observer have uncovered that thousands of bright, low-income students are being excluded from advanced classes throughou

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Homeschooling Makes Learning Personal For Some Special Education Students

3:27pm May 22, 2017

by Anya Kamenetz

Florida's Gardiner Scholarship provides money for students with some special needs to study as they wish. A controversial bill would expand it.

The Texas state House has passed an amendment prohibiting transgender students from using public school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity. A separate Legislature measure allowing religious exemptions for adoption and foster care is headed

Texas Lawmakers Revive 'Bathroom Bill,' OK Religious Refusal Of Adoptions

2:04pm May 22, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

A proposal governing bathroom use by transgender students in public schools has moved forward. A bill to allow adoption agencies to deny gay, unmarried or non-Christian would-be parents has passed.

Charles Barkley and executive producer Dan Partland speak during the American Race Press Luncheon in May in New York City.

In 'American Race,' Charles Barkley Is A True Believer In The Power Of Dialogue

12:01pm May 22, 2017

by Gene Demby

In the new TNT docu-series about race, the former NBA star is mostly indifferent to the broader context of the discussions he's wading into — and to the limits of trying to "start a dialogue."

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.

Protesting Students Walk Out On Pence's Address At Notre Dame

4:49pm May 21, 2017

by James Doubek

Student organizers said they walked out because Pence's policies "have marginalized our vulnerable sisters and brothers for their religion, skin color, or sexual orientation."

School vouchers take kids and money away from public school.

Why It's So Hard To Know Whether School Choice Is Working

6:29am May 21, 2017

It's hard to know how schools of choice — charter or private — are performing. Researchers say that's precisely because they are schools of choice. But here's what we do know.

When School Vouchers Don't Offer Much Of A Choice

8:02am May 20, 2017

by Peter Balonon-Rosen

Indiana is home to the largest private school voucher program in the country, but what does that mean for students in Eminence, Ind., where the closest private school is a 40-minute drive away?

President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. This is President Trump's second commencement address since taking office.

Trump Gives Commencement Address; Leaked Education Budget Has Big Cuts

6:00am May 20, 2017

by Anya Kamenetz

A push for better student data and more news of the week.

Texas Bufkin Christian Academy, a private, for-profit religious primary school in Milwaukee, is the lowest-performing voucher school in the city, state officials say.

Lessons From The Nation's Oldest Voucher Program

11:37pm May 19, 2017

by Claudio Sanchez

Milwaukee's voucher program serves some 28,000 students. Most of them are African-American and come from low-income families.

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