Student News reports developments affecting students now: examination format and grading decisions, admissions rule changes, funding and grant announcements, strikes and term disruptions. Items stay short, dated and attributed. Followed by students, parents and school staff who need to know what changed before rumors harden into belief.
Student News reports developments affecting students now: examination format and grading decisions, admissions rule changes, funding and grant announcements, strikes and term disruptions. Items stay short, dated and attributed. Followed by students, parents and school staff who need to know what changed before rumors harden into belief.
Missed school days spiked during the pandemic and have come down since — but national data show the decline stalling well above pre-pandemic levels, and researchers are still working out why.
Federal rules require a reentry plan with an education piece before a young person leaves a juvenile justice facility, but how well it works still depends on which adult stays on top of it.
Roughly one in four US public school students was chronically absent in 2023-24 — missing 10 percent or more of school days — nearly double the pre-pandemic rate, per analyses of federal data.
The last federal relief dollars hit a hard deadline in March 2026 — the final chapter of roughly $190 billion in pandemic-era education aid.
Kindergarten enrollment fell 9 percent and pre-K 22 percent in the pandemic — federal data shows the youngest grades mostly came back, while demographics now pull the other way.
More states now require a civics course or exam to graduate — and the details, from a half-credit in government to a citizenship-style test, vary enormously.
Nearly 2.5 million high schoolers took college courses in 2022-23 — the first national count — and the growth raises an access question families should check.
Teen mental health has stopped getting worse — 40 percent of high schoolers reported persistent sadness in 2023, down from 42 percent — but school services now face a funding cliff.
Nearly three-quarters of schools struggled to fill teaching jobs for 2024-25, per federal survey data — and the schedule is where families feel it first.
The digital SAT is shorter, adaptive, and calculator-friendly — but the scoring scale, the 400-1600 range families know, did not change.