NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 3 -- NOLA Public Schools issued the following news release: * * * Orleans Parish School Board Receives Clean Financial Audit for 2024-2025 Fiscal Year The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) is pleased to announce that its annual financial audit for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, has resulted in an unmodified opinion from EisnerAmper LLP, an independent certified public accounting firm that serves about one-third of the school boards in Louisiana. An unmodifie more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 3 -- NOLA Public Schools issued the following news release: * * * Orleans Parish School Board Released from Decade-Long Special Education Consent Judgment Federal Court Recognizes Sustained, Systemic Progress for Students with Disabilities in New Orleans Charter Schools * The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has officially released the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) from the obligations of a landmark consent judgment govern more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 2 -- The University of Southern California Rossier School of Education posted the following news: * * * USC Rossier scholars highlight research leadership at AERA 2026 * USC Rossier will have a strong presence at the 2026 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, taking place from April 8 to 12 in Los Angeles. Centered on the theme "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research," the nation more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, April 2 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 31, 2026, by policy fellow Catrin Wigfall: * * * How many kids who are behind in reading 'catch' up? For the fourth year in a row, Minnesota's third-grade reading scores have declined. While COVID didn't create this crisis, it exposed and exacerbated it. And Minnesota is finally being forced to co more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 3 -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog on April 2, 2026, by Stacey Shrader Joslin: * * * House Panel Ties Voucher Expansion to Immigration Tracking The Tennessee House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee voted to advanced voucher legislation with a wide-ranging amendment from the chair that reduced the expansion by 5,000 (authorizing 35,000 students rather than the 40,000 requested by Gov. Bill Lee) and added language that public s more PR

JACKSON, Mississippi, April 3 -- The Mississippi State Board of Education issued the following news release on April 2, 2026: * * * State Board of Education approves plans for three new Districts of Innovation, one new School of Innovation for 2026-27 The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has approved plans for three school districts - Newton County School District, Union Public School District and Western Line School District - to become Districts of Innovation for the 2026-27 schoo more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 3 -- The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction issued the following news release on April 2, 2026: * * * More than half of NC public school graduates passed college-level courses while in high school 54% of 2025 graduates earned college-level credit while in high school, the highest percentage ever recorded. * Historic percentages of North Carolina public school students are enrolling and succeeding in college-level courses while still in high school more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 3 -- NOLA Public Schools issued the following news release: * * * Orleans Parish School Board Receives Clean Financial Audit for 2024-2025 Fiscal Year The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) is pleased to announce that its annual financial audit for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, has resulted in an unmodified opinion from EisnerAmper LLP, an independent certified public accounting firm that serves about one-third of the school boards in Louisiana. An unmodifie more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 3 -- NOLA Public Schools issued the following news release: * * * Orleans Parish School Board Released from Decade-Long Special Education Consent Judgment Federal Court Recognizes Sustained, Systemic Progress for Students with Disabilities in New Orleans Charter Schools * The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has officially released the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) from the obligations of a landmark consent judgment govern more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 2 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news: * * * Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow * University of Pennsylvania fourth-year Sonia Banker has been named as a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, one of 18 in the country chosen for a one-year fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. A political science major from San Francisco, California, Banker will be working on Carnegie's Democracy, Co more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 2 -- The University of Southern California Rossier School of Education posted the following news: * * * USC Rossier scholars highlight research leadership at AERA 2026 * USC Rossier will have a strong presence at the 2026 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, taking place from April 8 to 12 in Los Angeles. Centered on the theme "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research," the nation more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, April 1 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * With Chavez allegations, a chance to study 'contradictions' * As the leading figure of the 20th-century farmworkers movement, Cesar Chavez is a staple of the K-12 curriculum in California. His work and life are typically subjects taught to fourth-, ninth- and 11-grade students statewide, according to public school guidelines. Cesar Chavez Day, a state holiday observed March 31,  more PR