PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most quietly revolutionary things our country did was make school meals free for all children—no forms, no shame, just a warm meal for every student. That poli...

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Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.

Fitzpatrick has been avoiding town halls for years before it became so popular with the rest of the Republican Party.

"This type of disruption and chaos has no place in our schools," said Heidi Roux, executive director of Bucks County's Immigrant Rights Action.

The last decade of research on traditional vouchers strongly suggests they actually lower academic achievement.

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Ohio House Republican leadership is doubling down on their threat to cut public school spending, with House Speaker Matt Huffman calling the continuation of the current Fair School Funding Plan a "fan...

The governor’s 2025 education plans included expanding full-day kindergarten and universal pre-K. He also wants to expand the voting age to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local school board races, an initiative he first endorsed last year.

As wildfires burn across L.A. — and my neighborhood evacuates — we thought it would be a good time to encore these Fire Ecology episodes so I can literally catch my breath. First Dr. Gavin Jones bring...

Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...

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The movement’s ultimate objective is to put an end to public responsibility for education entirely.

What makes public education so dangerous is that it is grounded in hope. As the editors of our forthcoming Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices write, “one of the wonderful things […]

Editor Cyril Mychalejko takes a look back at 10 of the top stories published in the Beacon this year. What were your favorite articles?

The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.