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Trump Official’s Autism Schools Secluded and Restrained Students at High Rates

1 day ago | the74million.org | Beth Hawkins

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Arizona Autism Charter Schools, whose founder has been tapped to oversee the education of children with disabilities in President Donald Trump’s second administration, has used controversial, potentially dangerous disciplinary practices on its students at an unusually high rate.
America’s Undocumented Educators Unsure of What’s Next Under Trump

4 days ago | the74million.org | Nadra Nittle

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. LOS ANGELES — Scattered among the shrubs on the southern border lie belongings migrants left behind — toothbrushes, water bottles, baseball caps. Some of the owners forged north, crossing the boundary undetected.
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Take Back Pandemic-Era Relief Funds for Schools

6 days ago | the74million.org | William Ford

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter A U.S. District Court judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cancel more than $1 billion of previously approved pandemic-era relief funding to schools across the country.
‘A Giant Leap Backwards’: Indiana Opts Out of Summer Program for Hungry Schoolchildren

1 week ago | the74million.org | Whitney Downard

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Last summer, hundreds of thousands of Hoosier families who qualify for food benefits and reduced-price school meals got a summertime boost: $120 per child monthly for food while schools were closed. But relief for those 669,000 children may only have been a one-time blip. Indiana won’t participate in a federal summer food service program, known as SUN Bucks, in 2025.
PowerSchool Paid Off Hackers After Huge Breach - Now They’re Extorting Districts

1 week ago | the74million.org | Mark Keierleber

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Cybercriminals demanded ransom payments from school districts nationwide this week, using millions of K-12 students’ sensitive data as leverage after the files were stolen from education technology giant PowerSchool in a massive cyberattack late last year.
Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy

1 week ago | the74million.org | Mark Swartz

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The well-child visit is standard pediatric practice for the first three years of life. Every few months, parents or caregivers bring their little ones to the doctor to make sure they are growing and thriving.
An Antidote to Plagiarism: New App Uses AI to Help Students Think Critically

1 week ago | the74million.org | Greg Toppo

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As schools nationwide remain on high alert for AI-assisted cheating, we should all remember one thing, says researcher Elliott Hedman: Deep down, most students love to learn. The problem, he argues, is that school’s feedback system is broken.
A Way Out of SCOTUS Charter School Ruling Mess: Focus on Mission, Not Religion

1 week ago | the74million.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter On April 30, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could compel states with charter school laws to authorize religious charters. Reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The 74 said the court’s conservative majority bloc appeared “open to” religious charter schools. Such a ruling would be bad for the country and deeply disruptive.
Thoroughly Modern: LA Principal Uses Instagram to Build School Spirit, Win Awards

1 week ago | the74million.org | Jinge Li

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter An LAUSD principal recently named a top school leader uses social media to build enthusiasm for her high school — and a strong spirit is spilling over into excellent academic outcomes, as well as strong enrollment. Rebecca McMurrin, principal of venerable Ulysses S.
SCOTUS to Rule in Case That Could Upend Enforcement of Disabled Students’ Rights

1 week ago | the74million.org | Beth Hawkins

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case that could prove seismic for students with disabilities who claim their schools have discriminated against them.