For too many working-class and middle-class families in the Commonwealth — especially Black and Latino families — higher education is simply out of reach.
Break the monopoly on higher education pathways
New models prove that younger and underserved populations are finding success with skills-based programs and hybrid educational models. The American dream has always hinged on education as the key to upward mobility.
ArtCart helps schools ditch coloring sheets and crafts to fill gaps in art education
ArtCart, a nonprofit founded by Kate Hushion in Wood County, WV, is transforming art education in the state. Serving over 4,200 students in 37 schools, it fills a void in classrooms like Poca Elementary,
State’s post-MCAS assignment: Develop a new education standard
“Instead of fixating on standardized tests, we need to address funding and resource gaps,” writes one stakeholder. Another: “Without a uniform graduation assessment, achievement gaps between affluent and high-needs communities will only grow.
Attleboro special education teacher arrested, accused of slapping 2 students
Susan Martin, 57, of Kingston was arraigned on two counts of assault and battery on a person with intellectual disability.
BPS announces largest single-year multilingual education expansion with new programs at 7 schools
Seven BPS schools will launch new multilingual education programs in the 2025-2026 school year, the district announced Monday, marking the largest single-year surge in BPS’s language offerings.
California brought back bilingual education. 3 reasons why so few schools offer it
California has banned bilingual education on and off since the 1800s. The state is now 8 years into allowing it again but still hasn’t managed to get all that many kids into good programs.
Attleboro special education teacher arrested for allegedly slapping two nonverbal 5-year-olds
Susan M. Martin pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of assault and battery on a person with intellectual disabilities.
Judge pauses lawsuit alleging Trump’s Education secretary pick enabled sexual abuse of children decades ago
A judge has paused an ongoing lawsuit against Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Education Department, that accuses her and the company she once led, World Wrestling Entertainment, of failing to act on allegations of sex abuse of children who helped ringside at wrestling events in the 1980s.
Trump wants to dissolve the Department of Education. Experts say it could change public schools
Education experts offered Fox News Digital their thoughts about President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to shutter the federal Department of Education and how it could impact schools.