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Education Week @edweek.org · 11/09/2026

‘Essential Infrastructure’: Education Groups Raise Concerns About FCC's E-Rate Review: The FCC might limit or end the program that subsidizes broadband connectivity for schools.

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‘Essential Infrastructure’: Education Groups Raise Concerns About FCC's E-Rate Review

The FCC might limit or end the program that subsidizes broadband connectivity for schools.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 14/09/2026

Districts Expand Cellphone Bans to Target AI Smart Glasses. Why It Matters: Smart glasses are particularly challenging to regulate because it’s harder to tell when kids are using them, experts say

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Districts Expand Cellphone Bans to Target AI Smart Glasses. Why It Matters

Smart glasses are particularly challenging to regulate because it’s harder to tell when kids are using them, experts say

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Education Week @edweek.org · 04/09/2026

Students’ Tech Engagement Doesn’t Equal Learning, Psychologists Warn: A panel of psychologists shares recommendations for ensuring technology promotes meaningful learning.

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Students’ Tech Engagement Doesn’t Equal Learning, Psychologists Warn

A panel of psychologists shares recommendations for ensuring technology promotes meaningful learning.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 08/08/2026

Students Created a National AI Policy Framework. Here’s What It Includes: Nearly 100 students from across the country collaborated to set guardrails around AI use in schools.

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Students Created a National AI Policy Framework. Here’s What It Includes

Nearly 100 students from across the country collaborated to set guardrails around AI use in schools.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New w/ @laurainegl.bsky.social: The Trump administration last month abruptly canceled $143 million for teen pregnancy prevention programs in 25 states. Now nonprofit staffers and high-schoolers are losing their jobs and schools are cutting programming: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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School Pregnancy Prevention Efforts Shut Down as Trump Emphasizes Abstinence

The administration has canceled funding for more than 50 teen pregnancy prevention programs.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 05/05/2026

Kids' Executive Function Skills Took a Hit During COVID. What Can Schools Do?: Children are struggling to master skills related to memory, attention, and self-control.

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Kids' Executive Function Skills Took a Hit During COVID. What Can Schools Do?

Children are struggling to master skills related to memory, attention, and self-control.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 26/04/2026

Nation's 2nd Largest District Moves to Limit Student Screen Use: LAUSD will limit classroom screen time, emphasizing quality learning over device use.

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Nation's 2nd Largest District Moves to Limit Student Screen Use

LAUSD will limit classroom screen time, emphasizing quality learning over device use.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 23/04/2026

A Federal School Cellphone Policy? Big Barriers Stand in the Way: Other countries have nationwide restrictions, but in the U.S., states and districts have set the agenda.

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A Federal School Cellphone Policy? Big Barriers Stand in the Way

Other countries have nationwide restrictions, but in the U.S., states and districts have set the agenda.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 20/04/2026

How to Lessen Screen Time in Schools—and Make It More Effective: Districts have tried monitoring software, tech-free days, and parent education to curb screen time.

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How to Lessen Screen Time in Schools—and Make It More Effective

Districts have tried monitoring software, tech-free days, and parent education to curb screen time.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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Education Week @edweek.org · 29/03/2026

4 Tips for Schools to Survive Tech Meltdowns: It's important for schools to be able to pivot when the technologies they use daily are out of commission.

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4 Tips for Schools to Survive Tech Meltdowns

It's important for schools to be able to pivot when the technologies they use daily are out of commission.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 21/03/2026

A Potential Breach of an Anonymous Tip App Could Have Exposed Sensitive Student Data: The breach may have exposed personal information of students attending more than 30,000 schools.

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A Potential Breach of an Anonymous Tip App Could Have Exposed Sensitive Student Data

The breach may have exposed personal information of students attending more than 30,000 schools.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 13/03/2026

Half of 16-Year-Old Boys Are Gambling. What Can Schools Do?: A Common Sense Media report examines adolescent boys' experiences with gambling and gambling-like activities.

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Half of 16-Year-Old Boys Are Gambling. What Can Schools Do?

A Common Sense Media report examines adolescent boys' experiences with gambling and gambling-like activities.

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Evie Blad @evieblad.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There are at least 86 public schools named for César Chavez. They face tough, unexpected conversations about changing their names after and investigation surfaced new allegations about the labor leader. www.edweek.org/leadership/s...

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Schools Named for César Chavez Face Renaming Debates After Assault Allegations

Dozens of schools named for César Chavez face decisions about renaming.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Trump administration has touted efforts to prepare K-12 students for the workforce. But last summer, the Education Department canceled 19 ongoing grants for school-based projects doing just that. Scoop from me and @laurainegl.bsky.social: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway

Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

so proud to have been part of this bargaining committee (and to now be serving as unit chair)! of course, we couldn't have fought so hard for these things without the support of our members 💙

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Federal grant cuts/cancellations/terminations at the following agencies in the last year have affected K-12 schools: -AmeriCorps -Ag. -Commerce -Defense -Energy -Education -HHS -DHS -DOJ -Interior -EPA -IMLS -NEA -NEH -NSF www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants

We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 31/01/2026

Rising Demand for Career Education Prompts College Board to Expand Its Footprint: The organization is investing in the teacher pipeline for career and technical education.

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Rising Demand for Career Education Prompts College Board to Expand Its Footprint

The organization is investing in the teacher pipeline for career and technical education.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 01/02/2026

4 Ways Schools Can Build a Stronger, Safer Climate: A principal, a student, and a researcher discuss what makes a positive school climate.

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4 Ways Schools Can Build a Stronger, Safer Climate

A principal, a student, and a researcher discuss what makes a positive school climate.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 16/01/2026

Should Schools Curtail the Use of Technology? Congress Fuels Debate: Experts told lawmakers ed tech hurts student mental health without improving learning outcomes.

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Should Schools Curtail the Use of Technology? Congress Fuels Debate

Experts told lawmakers ed tech hurts student mental health without improving learning outcomes.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 13/12/2025

How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE): Hundreds of districts have sued major social media companies over the youth mental health crisis.

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How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE)

Hundreds of districts have sued major social media companies over the youth mental health crisis.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 16/12/2025

How to Get More Students Into Computer Science Classes in the Age of AI: The percentage of schools offering computer science classes has plateaued, a Code.org report found.

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How to Get More Students Into Computer Science Classes in the Age of AI

The percentage of schools offering computer science classes has plateaued, a Code.org report found.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

BREAKING: The Trump administration appears poised to undertake its most significant effort yet to dismantle the Education Department. More from @beeschultz3.bsky.social and me for @edweek.org: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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U.S. Department of Education Poised to Announce Significant Downsizing

Many of the department's biggest programs could move to other agencies, advocates say.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New: In September, the Trump administration canceled more than $20 million for teacher-training programs at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions. Now some college students training for teaching careers may have to take out loans or drop out altogether. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Ed. Dept. Cuts Grants That Were Helping College Students Become Teachers

Ten universities collectively lost more than $20 million for efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Federal funding cuts for K-12 schools continue to loom even as the government shutdown drags on. But what do the students who will be most affected by those cuts think? @laurainegl.bsky.social followed a few on Capitol Hill: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding

National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Are you a K-12 educator participating in or helping students with the Presidential AI Challenge? I'd love to chat with you! DM or email me: llangreo@educationweek.org. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech

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Education Week @edweek.org · 31/10/2025

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding: National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

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Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding

National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

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Arianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Schools’ heavy reliance on the services of major technology companies comes with significant risks. Those risks became a reality this week when an outage at Amazon Web Services led to widespread internet disruptions. Story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/technology/a... #edtech

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AWS Outage Hit Schools Hard. How to Prepare for the Next Tech Meltdown

Schools need continuity plans that feature teaching without the help of technology.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 15/10/2025

One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate: New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

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One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate

New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 18/10/2025

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests: While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

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Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests

While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 20/10/2025

'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy: Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

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'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy

Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Our unit has made concessions. It has worked cooperatively. It’s time for EdWeek to stop having its lowest paid employees shoulder the company’s financial future. It is EdWeek’s turn now to come back with a reasonable and meaningful offer.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

EdWeek spent nearly DOUBLE our requested salary increase in legal expenses, per the company’s 2024 tax forms. Their lawyer once chastised us for asking for this raise just so we could “buy horses.” Our lowest paid employee makes less than $45,000. We don’t want horses. We want to buy groceries.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

EdWeek management repeatedly has told us that we’re a nonprofit, and our salaries are reflective of that. Chalkbeat’s CEO made $298,306in 2024. 74 Million’s CEO made $266,904. Ours made $531,400. How can that logic only apply to our lowest paid employees?

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The annual raise would cost the company approx. $140,000. We know this isn’t chump change. But the average salary of senior leadership at EdWeek is $300,776, while the average salary for an EdWeek employee is $73,854.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the DMV, the cost of living is roughly $107,882 (SmartAsset). We’re not asking for anywhere near that. The salary floor would be a meaningful raise for 11 employees. We think this is a worthy investment to retain hardworking and diligent employees, and recruit new talent.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

EdWeek came back initially with a 1% annual increase. Our membership—who struggle to afford rent and groceries, who rely on subsidies and second jobs to make ends meet—resoundingly said that this wasn’t good enough. EdWeek moved to 1.5%, before discretionary raises. It still isn’t enough.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We want to keep the hardworking employees we have, some who have given this company 20+ years. We want to recruit new talent to keep Education Week successful and ever-evolving. But it has to make sense for them to be here. And right now, for many, those numbers don’t add up.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We are asking for a 3.5% annual increase, before discretionary merit raises, and a salary floor of $65,000. Let’s be clear: This is a fair ask, one that is financially solvent and one that doesn’t risk the future of our company. In fact: The future is precisely what we’re worried about.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For 17 months, salary has been on the bargaining table. Despite our bargaining team’s creative and cooperative solutions to bring the unit’s needs closer to the company’s desires, we have again and again received disappointing—and insulting—counteroffers from management. Our staff deserves more.

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EdWeek Union @edweekunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hi! We're the EdWeek Union - roughly 50 people who work tirelessly to make our nonprofit news organization a key destination for educators and the general public. We wanted to share an update on our efforts to bargain with management for a fair contract that protects all of us. 🧵 #union #solidarity

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I talked to three teachers who are concerned that districts are buying into the AI hype too quickly and without enough skepticism. Here's what they said:

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‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom

Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i am once again asking: if you're a K-12 educator or student who has registered to participate in this challenge, i'd love to hear from you! DM or email me: llangreo@educationweek.org

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New: The Trump administration in recent weeks has quietly begun cancelling dozens of competitive education grants for projects already in motion. Hundreds more grant awards, worth more than $1 billion, appear delayed, and could be next on the chopping block. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump Cancels Dozens of Education Grants—With More Terminations on the Horizon

More than $1 billion in already-awarded grant funding has yet to flow as expected.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Scoop: Advocates are warning that the Trump administration appears to be preparing to cut "hundreds" of federal grants to support K-12 special education: academic research, parent resources, and more. The Education Department confirmed the grants are being reviewed. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Fears Grow That Trump Will Cut Special Education Support Funding

Advocacy organizations are warning members to brace for "hundreds" of grant terminations.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

New: The Trump administration says its education funding freeze is over. Details we still don't have: -WHEN the money will flow to states -WHETHER a rescissions request will follow -WHY the administration is releasing the $$ -HOW schools will recover from the chaos - www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump Abruptly Unfreezes All of the Education Funds He Had Withheld

More than $6.8 billion will flow in the coming days.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

First on @edweek.org: Billions of federal dollars Trump impounded this month will begin flowing to state education agencies next week. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump Abruptly Unfreezes All of the Education Funds He Had Withheld

More than $5 billion in previously-frozen federal funds will start flowing next week.

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