Microschools are growing in popularity, but state regulations haven’t caught up
Aug 17, 2025
Microschools are growing in popularity, but state regulations haven’t caught up
Columbian
When Siri Fiske founded the Mysa Microschool in Washington, D.C., in 2016, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for her small, one-room schoolhouse model.
Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
New data for the 2025-2026 school year show that homeschooling participation continued to grow across the country, but the pace of that growth has slowed.
EdWeek
The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.