Vol 4, Issue 1

School districts lost a court case that could have forced the state to reform its school finance system, and federal officials toured Texas to investigate claims that special education services were arbitrarily capped. 

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Troublemakers.

According to federal data and findings from a recent national survey, women account for less than a quarter of all superintendents in the nation’s nearly 14,000 school districts.

A new poll found that a majority of Arizona voters think the state should spend more money on education, with more than half saying they'd pay higher taxes to do so.

The San Diego school district is defending the use of “planking” and other physical exercise to cut down on student misbehavior as falling within its discipline policies.

Privatizing education, whether it be college lending or private school vouchers, is likely to be on the agenda during the soon-to-be Trump Administration.

The beleaguered U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, in existence for more than 150 years, has come under increased scrutiny for the way it serves the 50,000 students attending one of its 200 schools nationwide.

The general state of public education in the United States can be summed up in five statistics, according to a recent explainer in The Atlantic.