Local educational agency leaders believe summer learning programs play a critical role in achieving district goals, despite ongoing challenges with funding and more, according to a survey of K-12 superintendents across the U.S. AASA, The School Superintendents Association, along with Gallup and the National Summer […]
Results of a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 shows that girls and boys across the U.S. face different societal pressures and have different experiences at school but want the same things out of life. Released on March 13, the […]
Despite recent improvements in attendance, chronic absenteeism rates remain stubbornly high throughout the state, according to a March fact sheet released by the Public Policy Institute of California. Absenteeism peaked in 2021–22 when nearly 1.8 million California TK–12 students (30 percent) were considered chronically absent. […]
CSBA and education workforce housing (EWH) research partners from the University of California, Los Angeles’ cityLAB and UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools released a follow-up to the 2022 report that was used as a launching point by California Department of Education officials and […]
School boards play a crucial role in allocating resources to support student achievement, but a new report published by the Brookings Institution shows many budget deliberations focus on compliance-based budgeting rather than strategic investments to boost educational outcomes and long-term financial stability. With budgets shrinking […]
Students experiencing homelessness miss school at nearly twice the rate of their peers, but school districts across the country are implementing strategies that are reducing chronic absence rates, according to a new report from SchoolHouse Connection and Attendance Works. Through a series of case studies, […]
Only 30 percent of the nation’s largest school districts are led by women, and they continue to face unique challenges and stressors compared to their male colleagues, according to the annual Women Leading Ed Insight Survey, released in February. This percentage has largely stayed stagnant […]
A new study from Common Sense Media has found that a significant number of children as young as 2 years old are accessing digital media on a daily basis. Despite polling in recent years in which parents have expressed concerns about their teens’ screentime and […]
Stories about people of color and LGBTQ topics continue to be banned in school libraries at disproportionate rates, according to the latest analysis from PEN America, a free speech advocacy organization that tracks curriculum censorship. The report, released on Feb. 27, is based on PEN […]
Early career exposure is critical to addressing student disengagement among middle and high schoolers and closing workforce gaps, according to the 2025 State of the Future U.S. Workforce Report released in February by YouScience. Data from 450,000 middle and high school students across all 50 […]
