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The 74
Nearly six years after the start of the COVID pandemic, nearly one in four U.S. schoolchildren has received tutoring, according to a new, wide-ranging survey of more than 23,000 parents, 60% of whom say they strongly support offering the service for free to students who fall behind.

Sioux Falls
Lawmakers advanced a bill to allow charter schools in South Dakota on a 4-3 committee vote Tuesday, after debate over whether the proposal would expand opportunity or further strain public schools.

Hechinger Report
For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and controversial — urban education reforms. Now, a long-term study provides a clearer picture of their successes and disappointments.

The Gazette
News reports confirm what many school districts already know: public school enrollment in Colorado is steadily declining. The state lost roughly 10,000 public school students in just the past year, part of a multi-year trend now playing out nationwide.

K-12 Dive
The FY 26 funding measure provides specific guardrails for allocated grant money at the Education Department.

CDE
CDE is asking community members to share feedback on proposed revisions to the State's Academic Standards for high school math.

Chalkbeat
Colorado Senate lawmakers gave crucial approval Monday to a bill that would update the state’s “red flag” gun laws to allow K-12 schools to request that someone’s guns be temporarily confiscated.

CBS News
A real estate company is asking for the Douglas County School District's blessing to explore bringing affordable teacher housing to Meridian Village.

Chalkbeat
Every year, Colorado schools scramble to finish budgets before June 30. But state lawmakers typically don’t approve the School Finance Act, which signals how much state money districts stand to receive, until the last days of the legislative session.

The 74
What never sat right with me was the research community’s view that a teacher’s experience didn’t matter much after the first few years.

Chalkbeat
A southern Colorado school district could soon drop the law firm whose controversial lead lawyer helped launch what backers have called the state’s “first public Christian school.”

The 74
Despite AI’s uncertainty, industry is doubling down on innovation. School leaders need to do the same thing on transforming education.

CPR
The Trump administration’s weeks-long immigration enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, which has shuttered schools and terrified students and parents, has left one group particularly vulnerable: children with disabilities.

EdWeek
In every corner of the United States, school districts struggle with teacher shortages.

Fordham Institute
The grownups are fighting harder and louder than they have in years, both in words and deeds, about education, as well as everything else.

RMV
The success of Merit Academy in Woodland Park is no secret. When your school is ranked #5 of all K-12 Colorado Public Schools, it is hard to hide.

The 74
Brookings study finds AI undermines educational and social-emotional development, as well as teacher-student trust.

K-12 Dive
Senate and House leaders reject Trump administration plans to outsource management of Education Department programming.

CPR
Chronic underfunding, low pay, inadequate benefits and escalating administrative demands on teachers are driving Colorado teachers away from the profession.

The 74
Years after COVID-related health fears subsided, public school enrollment in Massachusetts remains significantly lower than in 2019, according to research released earlier this year

CPR
The federal government is freezing some childcare and food funds to Colorado, the latest salvo in the Trump Administration’s campaign against the Democratic-led state.

Coloradan
Poudre School District has lost more than an elementary school’s worth of students due to enrollment decline in the past year, and the financial impact could be even worse.

Denver 7
As we wrap up this year, some northern Colorado school districts are already planning ahead for the beginning of the next school year because of something we have been following for you for a while: the lack of air conditioning.

The 74
When it comes to education news, 2025 was unprecedented. Within days of President Donald Trump taking office in January, tectonic shifts to education policy and child welfare were set in motion – and at a dizzying pace.