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3 days ago | the74million.org | Amy Zimmer

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter New York City’s 2024-25 school calendar was set more than a year ago. But the Education Department made a scheduling error for this week’s Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and didn’t communicate about it until Tuesday morning, frustrating some principals as the school year entered the June homestretch.

4 days ago | the74million.org | Jo Napolitano

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter While artificial intelligence has made remarkable gains in mathematics, its well-chronicled shortcomings in the subject continue to frustrate those keen on finding new ways to help kids learn. “Big picture, AI is not very good at math,” said Alex Kotran, co-founder and CEO of The AI Education Project. “Language models just predict the next word. You get mixed results using language models to do math.

5 days ago | the74million.org | Betty Marquez Rosales

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The number of students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in California’s TK-12 public schools has jumped over 9% for yet another year, even as overall enrollment rates continue on a downward trend. Nearly 20,000 more homeless students were enrolled by the first Wednesday in October, known as Census Day, during the 2024-25 school year.

1 week ago | the74million.org | Mark Keierleber

School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. Two developments this week have upped the anxiety over how far President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown will go to ensnare students and young children. In New York City, a  Bronx high school student from Venezuela showed up for a routine immigration court date and was promptly arrested afterward by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

1 week ago | the74million.org | Alina Adams

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Thanks to a , by September 2027, New York City classes will be capped at 20 students in kindergarten through third grade, 23 in fourth through eighth grade and 25 in high school. This will necessitate the hiring of 3,700 public school teachers, as well as the creation of hundreds of new classrooms within already overcrowded buildings. Parents have concerns about how the process will play out.