States take steps for full-day kindergarten
In the not too distant past, kindergarten was a place where children learned to color, share and play, Stateline reports.
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Back-to-school tax breaks on…guns and tech?
Many states with back-to-school sales tax “holidays” are expanding them to cover almost any purchase, in addition to the usual kids’ clothing, shoes, books and school supplies, Stateline…
States nervous about new Common Core school standards
In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and middle-school students who rated "proficient" or better on statewide math and reading tests declined by about a third. Kentucky…
Should state education chiefs be elected or appointed?
If it were up to Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory, they’d have a little less company on the ballot in North Carolina this year, Stateline reports.
State of school funding in Washington like ‘a wartime setting’
With the state dramatically scaling back its funding, Superintendent Nick Brossoit has had to cut back on just about everything in the Edmonds School District, Stateline reports.
Affirmative action gets first Supreme Court hearing since 2003
Abigail Fisher was one of the more than 17,000 high-school seniors from around the country who were rejected when they applied to the University of Texas in 2008.…