The Year in Education: 25 of our top stories about schools, students and learning

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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
It would be a mistake to let the adoption and use of AI look different in high-poverty schools than in more affluent communities.

The 74
Since 2020, superintendents have endured a rollercoaster of challenges like a pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and political battles over topics of gender, sexuality and diversity in schools. But a top concern today boils down to what keeps school doors open: finance.