Education News covers the companies charging students and families: tutoring providers, exam boards, publishers, student housing operators and education technology firms. Reporting follows pricing, contracts, funding and consolidation, tracing how each reaches a household bill. For parents, school leaders and observers of the sector.
One counselor for every 385 students is the national norm against a recommended 250 — and the shortage lands hardest in the schools whose students need the most guidance.
The money behind a child's classroom arrives through three layers of government and a state formula most families never see — and the differences explain a lot about inequality.
After a January 2025 court ruling vacated the 2024 regulations nationwide, schools are operating under the older 2020 rule — and families are hearing conflicting things about what the law requires.
Every state must publish school-by-school data under federal law, but what goes on the card — and what it can tell you — varies more than most families expect.