The U.S. Department of Agriculture's new "community eligibility" option for federal school meals programs may be generating some data-collection difficulties for federal and state education education programs in participating states. ...
A new school-meals-eligibility option authorized by Congress in 2010 is proving popular with high-poverty schools, and is boosting participation in lunch and breakfast programs, two anti-poverty groups find. ...
San Antonio's $248 million prekindergarten program for preschoolers from poor and working-class families is off to a mostly smooth start, even as administrators do some fine-tuning. ...
It's time for moderates in the education debate to speak out and deflect attention away from the schools-good, schools-bad zealots, write David Rutkowski and Lesli Rutkowski. ...
Lawmakers are eyeing renewal of the biggest program aimed at high schools, which may offer chance for rare, bipartisan cooperation on an education law in a highly polarized Congress. ...