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New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues

by Lomi Kriel, and Alex Nguyen and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune

August 12, 2025, 8:30 pm EDT
A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law

by Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, and Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio

May 29, 2025, 11:00 am EDT
Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

May 28, 2025, 9:45 pm EDT

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300 stories published since 2015

Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.

by Emily Schwing, KYUK

November 17, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis.

by Emily Schwing, KYUK

November 7, 2025, 5:00 am EST
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

by Jennifer Smith Richards

October 22, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help.

by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman

October 15, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

October 13, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

by Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards

October 10, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

by Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards

October 8, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Help ProPublica Report on Education

by Jodi S. Cohen, Asia Fields, Megan O’Matz, Jennifer Smith Richards and Aliyya Swaby

October 3, 2025, 1:30 pm EDT
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

September 10, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.

by Ellis Simani, ProPublica and Lexi Churchill

September 10, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Three Chicago Schools Get Expensive STEAM Makeovers. Can the Effort Reverse Declining Enrollment?

by Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat, and Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica

September 9, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History

by Peter Elkind, ProPublica, and Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education

August 27, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on Education

by Lexi Churchill and Jasmine Aguilera, and Ellis Simani, ProPublica

August 13, 2025, 6:05 am EDT
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.

by Lexi Churchill, and Ellis Simani, ProPublica

August 13, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues

by Lomi Kriel, and Alex Nguyen and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune

August 12, 2025, 8:30 pm EDT
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.

by Emily Schwing, KYUK

August 1, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Idaho Schools Consistently Break Disability Laws. Parents Say They’re Not Doing Enough to Fix the Problem.

by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman

July 30, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

by Aliyya Swaby

July 28, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.

by Katherine Mangan, special to ProPublica

July 11, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
100 Students in a School Meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s Refusal to Deal With Its Nearly Empty Schools

by Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat, and Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica

June 13, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Tennessee’s Law on School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.

by Aliyya Swaby

June 10, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing

by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica

June 3, 2025, 3:30 pm EDT
A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law

by Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, and Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio

May 29, 2025, 11:00 am EDT
Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

May 28, 2025, 9:45 pm EDT
A Tennessee School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Post. Experts Say It Didn’t Properly Assess If He Made a Threat.

by Aliyya Swaby

May 27, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

May 20, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.

by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman

May 13, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases

by Asia Fields, Ashley Clarke, Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

May 2, 2025, 5:05 am EDT
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

May 2, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Idaho Gave Families $50M to Spend on Private Education. Then It Ended a $30M Program Used by Public School Families.

by Audrey Dutton

April 18, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals

by Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

April 4, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law

by Jeremy Schwartz, and Dan Keemahill

April 2, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education

by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois

March 27, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
How Texas Conservatives Use At-Large School Board Elections to Influence What Students Learn

by Jeremy Schwartz, and Dan Keemahill, photography by Shelby Tauber for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

March 19, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

March 14, 2025, 9:40 am EDT
Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.

by Lexi Churchill, and Ellis Simani, ProPublica

March 14, 2025, 7:00 am EDT
Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored

by Taylor Kate Brown

March 14, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

March 12, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.

by Callie Ferguson and Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News, and Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

March 11, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT
She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It.

by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica

March 10, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

by Ellis Simani, ProPublica, and Lexi Churchill

March 6, 2025, 6:00 am EST
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.

by Emily Schwing, KYUK

March 4, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.

by Molly Parker and Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois

March 3, 2025, 7:00 am EST
Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

February 20, 2025, 8:35 pm EST
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

February 13, 2025, 9:30 pm EST
A New Mexico District Says It’s Reduced Harsh Discipline of Native Students. But the Data Provided Is Incomplete.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

February 12, 2025, 7:00 am EST
Idaho Passed $2 Billion in Funding for School Building Repairs. It’s Not Nearly Enough.

by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman

February 11, 2025, 6:00 am EST
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

February 11, 2025, 12:30 am EST
The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen

February 8, 2025, 4:30 pm EST
First Came the Warning Signs. Then a Teen Opened Fire on a Nashville School.

by Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, and Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio

February 8, 2025, 5:00 am EST