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• Supreme Court to rule on right of religious parents to opt kids out of LGBTQ material April 18, 2025
  Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.When the devout Muslim parents of a second grader learned their son would be reading a story at school about a prince who falls in love with a knight, they asked to opt him out.The story about a […]
  Kalyn Belsha
• New Jersey says no to Trump anti-DEI push, questions feds’ power to withhold school funding April 18, 2025
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox.New Jersey’s education chief is standing firm against the Trump administration’s pressure to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion practices from K-12 schools.In a Thursday letter to the administration, Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer said the […]
  Catherine Carrera
• Officials promised all NYC classrooms would get air conditioning. 1 in 5 still lack it. April 17, 2025
  Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.Almost three years ago, New York City officials declared victory on a major project: outfitting every public school classroom with air conditioning.Yet after spending nearly half a billion dollars to upgrade outdated electrical systems and […]
  Alex Zimmerman
• Colorado spent $2 million studying education funding. Lawmakers don’t want it to go to waste. April 17, 2025
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Two years ago, Colorado paid for a pair of studies that calculated the cost of providing an adequate education to all students in the state. The price tag for those […]
  Jason Gonzales
• Denver board considering policy on how to reuse, lease, or sell empty school buildings April 17, 2025
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Just ahead of school closures that will make five buildings vacant, the Denver school board is considering a policy outlining how the district should repurpose empty schools.The proposal lays out […]
  Melanie Asmar