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Families & the Community Opinion Why Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling?
A new report examines the role of family structure on academic success.
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School Climate & Safety For Students Walking to School, the Route Can Be Deadly. What Can Make It Safer?
School districts, including New York City, have rolled out a number of strategies to reduce risks.
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Equity & Diversity Opinion The Real Lesson From Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Public School Dilemma
The journalist’s essay on her daughter’s education went viral. Are people asking the right question?
Manikka Bowman
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Budget & Finance Trump's School Choice Program Could Push Public Schools to Charge New Fees
Districts that charge new fees will likely confront tricky logistical, legal, and philosophical questions.
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A tutor helps students at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2025.
A tutor works with students at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2025. The federal tax-credit scholarship program that launches next year can cover select expenses for public school students, including for tutoring. But to receive revenue from the program, public schools could have to set up systems to charge fees that the federally bankrolled scholarships can then cover.
Eric Thayer/AP
School & District Management Principals Are Stressed Out. Here's What's Plaguing Them—and What Can Help
Principal mental health is suffering from ‘work spillage,' a new study finds.
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Man in suit, collaged with thorny branches in front and behind him.
Collage by Laura Baker/Education Week + Canva
School Climate & Safety 4 Ways AI Data Centers Can Affect Schools
From health to productivity and finances, data centers could pose risks for students and schools.
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The Quantum Frederick Data Center Campus near the Carroll Manor Elementary School.
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School & District Management From Our Research Center What We Know About School Board Members, In Charts
Many school board members are retired and have never worked in education before, survey shows.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 21, 2026 : A board meeting at the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 , in Los Angeles, CA. The LAUSD met to discuss a resolution calling for development of a Screen Time Policy setting time limits by grade, including elimination of student digital devices for early education through first-grade, prohibiting device use by elementary and middle school students during passing periods, lunch and recess. The board unanimously voted to approve Board Member Nick Melvoin's Resolution to limit student screen time.
The Los Angeles Unified School District school board meets on April 21, 2026, to discuss whether to develop a policy to limit students' screen time. A new EdWeek Research Center survey shows that many school board members nationwide are retired and have never worked in K-12 education.
Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times

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More Leadership

  • School & District Management The Best Books About Leadership These Educators Have Ever Read. What's Yours?
    Critical lessons learned from books (and one TV show) about leadership.
    Kevin Bushweller, September 30, 2026
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    Collage of various articles of clothing with clipped clothing descriptions and prices. Partial face of a kindergarten male eating a piece of fruit with other food items clipped such as pizza, bananas, and an apple. Subtle typography in the background shows menu items with prices.
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    Budget & Finance As Student Meal Debt Soars, School Districts Launch Their Own Fundraisers
    Meal cost increases, changes in federal food assistance eligibility may lead to more unpaid balances, experts say.
    Caitlynn Peetz Stephens, September 30, 2026
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    Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones poses for a portrait at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York on Dec. 10, 2021.
    Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, shown at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York on Dec. 10, 2021, recently wrote an essay in the Atlantic describing her selection of a high-poverty school in New York City for her daughter, and their subsequent disappointment with that experience. Hannah-Jones' piece received widespread attention, and this week Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the piece "devastating" and said it pointed to a need for improvements to the school system.
    Robert Bumsted/AP
    School & District Management Mamdani Says NYC Public Schools ‘Failed’ Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Daughter
    In a recent essay, Hannah-Jones recounted her decision to enroll her daughter in a high-need school.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, September 30, 2026
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    Mansfield Senior High School teacher Tony Davis talks to his health class about the topic of sleep as freshman Zariyah Gregg, 14, snoozes, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Mansfield, Ohio.
    Mansfield Senior High School teacher Tony Davis talks to his health class about the topic of sleep as freshman Zariyah Gregg, 14, snoozes, on Dec. 6, 2024, in Mansfield, Ohio. CDC 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey report focuses on five areas — diet, physical activity, sleep, digital behavior, and mental health and suicide risk — while largely leaving out national findings on substance use, sexual behavior, violence and disparities among student groups that were prominent in previous reports.<br/>
    Phil Long/AP
    Student Well-Being & Movement CDC's Latest Youth Behavior Report Offers a Narrower Look at Teen Health
    The new report leaves out national findings on substance use, sexual behavior, violence, and disparities.
    Amanda Watford, Stateline, September 30, 2026
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    The United States Capitol building as a bookcase filled with red, white, and blue policy books in a Washington DC landscape.
    Luca D'Urbino for Education Week
    School Climate & Safety Opinion It's 3 p.m. Do You Know What Teens Are Doing?
    A veteran school reformer is focused on how teens are spending their time after the school day ends.
    Rick Hess, September 29, 2026
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    Many Philadelphia schools lack adequate electrical service to support effective whole-school air conditioning on Sept. 8, 2023. Bayard Taylor, in Hunting Park , has window units but they do not cool the whole building.
    Window air conditioning units at Bayard Taylor School in Philadelpia, pictured here on Sept. 8, 2023, do not cool the whole building. High classroom temperatures can make it harder for students to learn and perform well on tests, a new report outlines.
    Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via TNS
    School Climate & Safety How Extreme Weather Threatens Student Learning and Academic Progress
    Too-hot classrooms put the brain in "survival management mode," one expert said.
    Sarah Schwartz, September 28, 2026
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