Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change

This story first appeared in Hechinger’s climate and education newsletter. Sign up here.  In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the city’s schools to add solar ...

Posted 2025-10-26 05:00:00

Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education office

Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy ...

Posted 2025-10-17 17:41:54

As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission.  WASHINGTON – For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at ...

Posted 2025-10-16 05:00:00

Getting preemies the help they need

Every year, tens of thousands of infants are born prematurely, at a low birthweight, or with other conditions that would make them automatically eligible for therapeutic services that could help ...

Posted 2025-10-16 19:25:10

NJ advisory group to probe how students with disabilities are separated from their peers 

In New Jersey, fewer than half of 6- and 7-year-olds in special education spend the vast majority of their day with their classmates without disabilities. That might change, though, because a ...

Posted 2025-10-15 05:00:00

Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say

This story originally appeared in Hechinger’s climate and education newsletter. Sign up for it here. Last January, Diego Sandoval’s high school in San Diego County closed abruptly one ...

Posted 2025-10-15 05:00:00

OPINION: A shuttered government was not the lesson I hoped my Texas students would learn on a trip to Washington, D.C. 

After decades serving in the Marine Corps and in education, I know firsthand that servant leadership and diplomacy can and should be taught. That’s why I hoped to bring 32 high school seniors ...

Posted 2025-10-21 05:00:00

Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help — and got it

MEAD, Wash. — A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet.  They would pit one Washington ...

Posted 2025-10-14 05:00:00

Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift

Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with ...

Posted 2025-10-20 10:00:00

OPINION: We cannot let higher education become a gated community for the wealthy, but that’s exactly where it is headed

Washington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds — making it ...

Posted 2025-10-20 05:00:00