https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/en-usCopyright (C) 2026 newslocker.comTue, 29 Sep 2026 13:46:00 +0200 Student test scores have declined over the last decade, in an academic slump that started before the pandemic and has continued since. Compared with 2015, reading scores are down in 83 percent of districts, and math declines are nearly as pervasive.
But improving student achievement is notoriously difficult. Do schools need more money? Better teachers? More standardized testing? Less?]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/30-ideas-for-fixing-us-schools-ranked-by-experts/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/30-ideas-for-fixing-us-schools-ranked-by-experts/ Schools now must go back to the Title IX code as held under the previous Trump administration in 2020, which the department says will protect women’s sports.
“Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect court orders and Congr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/education-department-formally-rescinds-title-ix-protections-for-lgbtq-students/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/education-department-formally-rescinds-title-ix-protections-for-lgbtq-students/ Unlike AI chatbots that are designed to be agreeable — and even sycophantic — Jordan presents as angsty: On the day NPR visited, the chatbot told students, “Lately, I’ve been feeling like what’s the point of any of this? I’m not failing. I just don’t care. You ever feel like]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/welcome-to-the-wild-west-of-ai-in-schools-research-is-scarce-but-experiments-abound/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/welcome-to-the-wild-west-of-ai-in-schools-research-is-scarce-but-experiments-abound/ The 12-page notification, sent to lawmakers and viewed by The New York Times, builds on a $4.9 billion clawback of funds that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs that the Trump administration set in motion]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/trump-proposes-810-million-in-education-and-health-cuts-defying-congress/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/trump-proposes-810-million-in-education-and-health-cuts-defying-congress/ Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said her office was “ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts” because the effort “does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today.&rdq]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/doj-says-its-moving-to-end-more-than-50-decades-old-school-desegregation-cases/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/doj-says-its-moving-to-end-more-than-50-decades-old-school-desegregation-cases/ Download the guide, How AI and Analytics Are Transforming Public Education Audit, to explore these t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/download-ai-and-analytics-3-steps-to-smarter-k12-audits/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/download-ai-and-analytics-3-steps-to-smarter-k12-audits/ In August, both Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath and state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles said Houston ISD could exit the intervention “relatively soon.” The state’s largest school district has been under state control since 2023, after Wheatley High School in the fifth ward earned more than five consecutive failing accountability ratings from the Texas Education Agency. T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/houston-isd-state-takeover-could-end-this-school-year-but-elected-trustees-face-a-long-road-to-full-control/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/houston-isd-state-takeover-could-end-this-school-year-but-elected-trustees-face-a-long-road-to-full-control/ NPR spoke to five Education Department employees to understand how the administration’s publicly stated goals are unfolding inside the agency. They all asked not to be named because they are not authoriz]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-education-dept-hasnt-been-dismantled-its-become-more-inefficient-staff-say/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-education-dept-hasnt-been-dismantled-its-become-more-inefficient-staff-say/ This is the second year the volunteer advocacy group surveyed superintendents about the financial outlook of their schools in the wake of Senate Enrolled Act 1, which set forth a series of major property tax reforms.
The survey wen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/indiana-superintendents-say-theyre-cutting-jobs-because-of-property-tax-reforms/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/indiana-superintendents-say-theyre-cutting-jobs-because-of-property-tax-reforms/ The department’s early rollout is welcome news for the millions of American families eager to receive financial aid for the 2027-2028 school year.
The critical resource is used to help applicants achieve funding for higher education and department officials are tout]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/weve-simplified-it-education-department-rolls-out-fafsa-form-earlier-than-ever-before/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/weve-simplified-it-education-department-rolls-out-fafsa-form-earlier-than-ever-before/ The department’s proposed rule on federal grants, known as the Education Department General Administrative Regulations, closes for public comment this Wednesday. The plan would give the agency broad authority to terminate certain federal funds.
The proposed rule would allow the agency to terminate competitive grants to K-12 schools and colleges &ld]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-latest-plans-that-could-shake-up-education-funding/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-latest-plans-that-could-shake-up-education-funding/ Though their approaches may differ, the districts all share one thing in common: they’ve developed AI policies to control how the technology is used in the classroom. That puts them ahead of many other Massachusetts districts that haven’t developed]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/school-districts-slowly-build-guidance-around-ai-learning-in-classrooms/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/school-districts-slowly-build-guidance-around-ai-learning-in-classrooms/ All that aggressive change earned the north Houston school its first ever A rating, a coveted stamp of approval from the state. It has been a dramatic climb since the state seized control of the district three years ago, when students were so behind in math and reading that the campus received the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/high-costs-dwindling-enrollment-is-houston-isds-playbook-under-takeover-sustainable/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/high-costs-dwindling-enrollment-is-houston-isds-playbook-under-takeover-sustainable/ “There was this culture of fear that was permeating throughout the district,” Glover said of Sarasota county.
By channeling anger against mask mandates in schools, the right-wing group Moms for Liberty, founded in Florida, built an outsized influence on school boards ac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/no-more-book-bans-how-florida-students-are-pushing-rightwingers-out-of-school-boards/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/no-more-book-bans-how-florida-students-are-pushing-rightwingers-out-of-school-boards/ US ‌District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston ruled, opens new tab in favor of eight Democratic-led states that had continued to challenge the Education Department policy even after the US Supreme Court in April 2025 allowed t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/us-judge-strikes-down-education-departments-anti-dei-grant-policy/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/us-judge-strikes-down-education-departments-anti-dei-grant-policy/ In the parking lot, he heard a storm siren wailing. As he drove hom]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/after-a-tornado-he-rebuilt-schools-at-lightning-speed-then-came-the-hard-work/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/after-a-tornado-he-rebuilt-schools-at-lightning-speed-then-came-the-hard-work/ As many as 16 buildings could lose their current academic programming under the proposals, although the district stopped short of describing the buildings as closed schools. District officials said the buildings could potentially be used for other purposes in the future but did not]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/minneapolis-public-schools-proposes-closing-schools-amid-budget-challenges/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/minneapolis-public-schools-proposes-closing-schools-amid-budget-challenges/ I saw this first hand when I visited Hamilton County, Tennessee; a district that takes STEM seriously, and had invited me out to observe its computer science and maker program. I tried to access Chat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/ive-visited-school-districts-from-tennessee-to-nyc-american-kids-are-not-ready-for-the-ai-revolution/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/ive-visited-school-districts-from-tennessee-to-nyc-american-kids-are-not-ready-for-the-ai-revolution/ A decade later, national test scores indicate he still has a steep road to travel before the pizza party. While Texas’ fourth grade math students jumped from 18th to 8th over his tenure, the state otherwise lingers in the bottom third of the country.
However, no one ca]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/mike-morath-wanted-texas-to-reach-no-1-in-education-test-scores-show-theres-more-work-to-do/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/mike-morath-wanted-texas-to-reach-no-1-in-education-test-scores-show-theres-more-work-to-do/ The answer could influence far more than what happens inside classrooms. Decisions schools make today may help determine how an entire generation learns to think, solve problems, exercise judgment and eventually pa]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-ai-education-paradox-preparing-students-for-an-ai-workforce/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/administration/the-ai-education-paradox-preparing-students-for-an-ai-workforce/