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Fordham Institute
Ever since the one-room schoolhouse faded from the American prairie, some reformers have argued that clumping students by age is ill-advised. Read more.

Colorado Springs Gazette
Read more about a public school system that achieves a 100% college acceptance rate—every graduating senior is accepted to at least one four-year college, university or post-secondary program.

The 74
Four-year-olds entering pre-K in Mississippi’s Lamar County Schools don’t spend their days on worksheets or bent over papers practicing their letters. But they do have plenty of books, Play-Doh and time for friends. Read more.

The 74
With the presidential election less than six months away, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will soon unveil their platforms and begin rallying voters around their agendas for 2025 and beyond. Read more.

Associated Press
On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Read more.

The 74
Before she got to the math in her lesson on linear equations last fall, Sydney Kealanahele asked her class of eighth graders on Oahu why kalo, or taro root, is so important in Hawaii. Read more.

The 74  - Join us in celebrating seven changemakers who are raising their voices for charter schools, public education, and kids.Read more. 

Education Week - The class of 2024 started high school during the pandemic, but schools are finding that more and more students with disabilities need extended education support, sometimes as much as twice as long as the typical four-year high school allots. Read more.

The 74  - Seventy years after the Supreme Court outlawed separating public school children by race, a new report breathes life into an old question: how the most coveted public schools are able to legally exclude all but the most privileged families. Read more.

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools - The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is pleased to release the 2024 Charter Schools Program Impact Report, an annual look at how Charter Schools Program (CSP) funds are impacting communities around the country. Read more.

Chalkbeat - Schools and money loomed large in the 2024 Colorado legislative session. State lawmakers approved a new school funding formula 10 years in the making. Read more.

Chalkbeat - Colorado’s State Board of Education voted Wednesday afternoon to allow Adams 14 to continue its improvement work with a partial outside manager — a sign that the state trusts the progress being made by the long-struggling school district. Read more.

The 74 - The California Charter Schools Association last month filed a lawsuit against LA Unified over its controversial new policy barring charters from using classrooms in certain district school buildings. Read more.

Chalkbeat - Over the last three decades, school segregation has been increasing — and it has increased the most within the large school districts that enroll many of the nation’s students of color. Read more.

National Alliance The top two public high schools in the nation are charter schools. U.S. News & World Report (U.S. News) released the 2023-2024 rankings of the best public high schools in the country. Twenty charter schools are recognized in the top 100 schools. Read more.

The 74
Allen: Think of the ripple effect when students attend schools where they can thrive & parents go from feeling ignored to having a seat at the table. Read more.

Chalkbeat
A proposed rewrite to Colorado’s school funding formula cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday when House members approved the measure on an initial voice vote, bringing the rewrite another step closer to replacing a 30-year-old system. Read more.

The 74
Pursuing her passion for a career in medicine, California high schooler Ella Mayor found fulfillment working as a part-time pharmacy technician — tapping into skills she could never practice in school. Read more.

Axios
Colorado has some of the country’s highest shares of best-performing public high schools, per U.S. News & World Report’s recently released 2024 Best High School rankings and six of the top 10 in Colorado are charters. Learn more.

CBS News
Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado budget on Monday, fully funding schools, creating more housing and investing in public safety. The $525.8 million budget is for the fiscal year 2024-2025. Watch now.

Boardhawk
Bill Kurtz, the founding CEO of DSST Public Schools, is stepping down in June after 20 years running the state’s largest and most successful network of charter schools. Read more.

The 74
Schools are about a year out from a budgetary cliff. The combination of declining student enrollment and the expiration of federal relief funds will make the spring 2025 budget season particularly painful in many districts across the country. Read more.

KSJD
The new law grew out of a teen harm reduction movement in Durango, and several Durango teens helped write the bill. It provides good samaritan protections for teens and eliminates liability risk for schools and districts. Read more.

CPR News
Colorado students will be ensured the right to wear objects of “cultural or religious significance” during graduation under a bill headed to the governor’s desk. Read more.