“I would love to be able to show the efficacy of different donations,” Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado said about the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit www.the74million.org/article/as-w...

Could programs that support early childhood educators with student loan repayment help the field with workforce retention? bit.ly/46zh2Nj

Decades of harm: New York schools named in nearly 2,000 child sex abuse claims [in partnership with @the74.bsky.social]

Decades of harm: New York schools named in nearly 2,000 child sex abuse claims

A law that opened a window for survivors to seek justice for past abuse also exposed how schools enabled alleged predators.

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The 74 investigation reveals that more than 18% of all the NY state Child Victim Act cases — or nearly 1 in 5 — attest that a child was sexually abused, assaulted or raped by an adult who had access to them through their school bit.ly/3Tmn00N

Arcane language, opaque processes and inconsistent communication often leave families unable to get the special education services their children need. One parent described it as "playing a game I didn't have the rules to" buff.ly/afFX4Ki

Meek: Content that once festered in dark corners of social media — where masculinity means controlling and overpowering women — is now mainstream bit.ly/4yatLSI

Gupta: If you haven’t been truly bad at something lately and climbed your way to proficiency or mastery, then you are out of touch as an educator bit.ly/4rlEZ44

Filipic: When Congress voted to slash the SNAP last year, it put school meals on the chopping block for students and whole districts bit.ly/47cp6nb

Students’ View: Our generation is the first to grow up with artificial intelligence as part of everyday life. We need help navigating it bit.ly/4hmmRnc

Tulsa’s alert system has caught the attention of organizations doing similar work from Dallas to Dayton, Ohio. But the resources available to families fall far short of the demand. This story was published with @the74.bsky.social:

Evictions impact millions of kids. These schools get an alert when it happens to their students.

Tulsa is one of several cities trying to combat the chronic absenteeism and poor grades of students facing eviction.

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Sparkman: We waited too long to teach children how the social-media world worked. With AI, we should teach the child before the technology does bit.ly/4jco9m4

Aldeman: With vacation breaks, long weekends and religious holidays, 180 days of instruction in Fairfax County, Virginia, stretch out over 297 days. The same is happening in other districts bit.ly/4cUDX9k

The biggest predictor of whether a child receives special education services should not be how effectively their parents can advocate. Yet for many families, that’s exactly how the system works bit.ly/4ApX9Gc

Who steps in when parents need childcare beyond 9-to-5? The 74's latest series, After Hours, offers a glimpse into the essential programs helping families make it work beyond standard business hours www.the74million.org/series/after...

De Lucio: For many students, their ride to school is the first structured interaction of the day, and it sets the tone for everything that follows www.the74million.org/article/tran...

Reading scores in Ohio improved in 2026 with all schools now using the science of reading, but key scores are still below two years ago bit.ly/4iAVl6C

District leaders are "getting inundated with sales pitches" and calls to "ban it all," says Emily Freitag — which is why her team spent 6 months watching real classroom #AI use instead of demos bit.ly/4y1thyf

In a 74 exclusive, experts say the research is ‘valuable and timely,’ but has limitations bit.ly/470CMBH

Campaign donations from private equity-owned applied behavior analysis companies seek to influence insurance law, put private therapists in classrooms www.the74million.org/article/as-s...

‘The kids are watching,’ says co-director Robert May, who hopes the five-part PBS miniseries will lead to greater respect among political rivals bit.ly/4rafqmo

Parents facing eviction are “not thinking ‘What can a lawyer do for me?' or even ‘What can Tulsa Public Schools do for me?’” said Eric Hallett, a staff attorney at Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma bit.ly/4rg99FW

Families persuaded the district to adopt the nation's first neurodiversity-affirming policy. But putting it into practice has been a challenge bit.ly/4xsV2yz

Garg: AI-driven automatic speech recognition technology can listen to kids read, identify weaknesses, give feedback and make recommendations to teachers and parents bit.ly/4yzWJei

Some schools will have to use state-approved math textbooks only with no consensus on what they should or shouldn’t include www.the74million.org/article/ohio...

Meek & Williams: “The Trump administration’s English-only proposal is not only misaligned with science, law, and the administration’s own stated goals, it will also cost taxpayers,” an estimated $73M to $124M to implement bit.ly/3T3ZXrC

Analysis of Medicaid data finds applied behavior analysis — an unproven, even dangerous therapy — turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense bit.ly/4hqBZjA

From California to Maine, extreme weather is disrupting student attendance and, ultimately, their achievement bit.ly/46lE9L7

Freeland Fisher: Pilot program examined how AI tools can make it easier for young people to find, reach and rely on their broader human connections bit.ly/3VaKbM9

Some states are streamlining childcare regulations, but how those rules get interpreted and enforced will determine whether reform actually helps families bit.ly/3VaK9E1

Wooden: A good teacher can read a room in minutes and adjust support for each student, but they’re facing challenges that make it harder to sustain bit.ly/4j4VcZc