In a crowded field of eighteen candidates for Cambridge’s School Committee, six are educators and ten currently have kids in the district. Lilly Havstad is both — and thinks that her perspective is ...

Parents value after-school programs, but demand far exceeds available capacity, particularly among low- and middle-income families, a new report finds. Families want after-school programming for about ...

Team USA weren’t the only ones to embarrass themselves at the Ryder Cup this weekend. Comedian and actress Heather McMahan, who was working as master of ceremonies at the first tee at Bethpage Black, ...

Some children dream of being astronauts or doctors. Others spend their afternoons playing house. But for Stephanie Emmons, childhood play had only one script: school. At six years old, she gathered ...

When principal Kacey Martin was pitched an idea by a senior to give a back-to-school tour of the school’s Gainesville, Georgia campus, he was high-key stoked. Then he was presented with a script ...

At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall. Alpha School, ...

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The Trump administration told states Friday that it will send every state on Monday their formula funding allocations for before- and after-school programs nationwide—but the funding will come with a ...

Millions of children and working families will soon feel the impact of a funding freeze that will put a halt to key school programs. With very little explanation, the Education Department abruptly ...

The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach. By Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein Congress has ...