8/14/2026·Kate Carter

The average family with K-12 kids plans to spend about $864 on back-to-school shopping this year, and clothes and shoes cost more than the supply list itself. The bill lands all at once, in summer, and surveys show many parents are taking on debt or cutting groceries to cover it.

8/14/2026·Arthur Chen

Texas released its 2026 A-F accountability ratings for 1,202 districts and 9,105 schools. A ratings climbed, F ratings fell, and 585 schools jumped straight to an A. The ratings also arrive on time, after lawsuits blocked them for years.

8/13/2026·Mary Johnson

A seventh-grade student is in custody after a teacher was stabbed during class at Jonesville Middle School in Lee County, Virginia, on Thursday morning. The sheriff said the teacher's injuries are serious but not life-threatening, and credited several students with stopping the attack.

8/13/2026·Kate Carter

Georgia asks for 23 units, including four years each of math and science, more than most states. There is no exit exam anymore, but the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships set a separate, higher bar. Here is the full breakdown.

8/12/2026·Mary Johnson

The Quality Education Commission says schools need $13.8 billion just to hold steady and $16.2 billion to hit new targets. Enrollment has dropped nearly 33,000 students since 2017, and even the commission's own chair says more money alone won't fix it.

8/12/2026·Kate Carter

Several large Texas border districts now enroll a student body that is more than 99 percent Hispanic. allk12's read of NCES enrollment data shows the top of the list is not spread across the country. It sits in two places: the Texas-Mexico border and inland Southern California.

A demographically-adjusted, state-by-state comparison of charter and district school performance.

Lincoln, Washington, and Central: the names that repeat hundreds of times across the US public school map.

Where students are stronger in math than reading, and where it's the reverse, in every state and school.