Highlights
Federal food benefits and preschool aid to run dry starting Saturday if shutdown continues - Associated Press - 27 October 2025
Shutdown imperils key education program for young children - Politico - 28 October 2025
Using an Anti-KKK Law to End a Black-Only Scholarship - Inside Higher Ed - 27 October 2025
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Deeper Dive: Government Shutdown
Thousands of preschoolers could lose access to Head Start due to shutdown - News From the States - 27 October 2025
Government shutdown updates: 25 states and DC sue Trump admin over SNAP benefits - ABC News - 28 October 2025
Hunger and Cold Loom as Shutdown Imperils Funding for Antipoverty Programs - The New York Times (subscription model) - 27 October 2025
K-12 Education
Research Notes: Targeting Waste and Fraud in the K-12 System - FutureEd - 28 October 2025
The ‘Southern surge’ offers lessons for student learning — but we don’t fully understand it yet - Chalkbeat - 28 October 2025
Shut Out: Inequitable Access to After School Programs Grows - The 74 - 28 October 2025
A potential ‘fix’ for special education? - K-12 Dive - 28 October 2025
Opinion: Teaching English Learners Is Complex. Here Are Some Tested Strategies - Education Week (subscription model) - 28 October 2025
Higher Education
ED Panel Prepares to Settle Student Loan Caps - Inside Higher Ed - 28 October 2025
Top universities ramp up lobbying amid Trump higher education crackdown - The Hill - 28 October 2025
Colleges feel the weight of Supreme Court affirmative action decision as Black enrollment falls - The Hill - 28 October 2025
Fingerprints and Blood Spatter: How a College Readies the Next Cohort of Investigators - EdSurge - 27 October 2025
Early Learning & Child Care
Map Shows States With the Highest—and Lowest—Child Care Costs - Newsweek (subscription model) - 27 October 2025
You can’t fix the birth rate without fixing child care - South Carolina Daily Gazette - 27 October 2025
Va. cuts early childhood sites ‘needing support’ in half; instruction improvements ongoing - Virginia Mercury - 27 October 2025
U.S. Department of Education
Trump administration must restore grants for school counselors, judge rules - Associated Press - 27 October 2025
Students with disabilities have unique rights under federal law. What if they weren’t alone? - Chalkbeat - 28 October 2025
Educator Workforce
Ed. Colleges Are Granting Fewer Degrees, Potentially Affecting the Teacher Pipeline - Education Week (subscription model) - 27 October 2025
School Choice
LRSD motions to intervene in lawsuit to stop LEARNS Act school choice vouchers - KATV - 27 October 2025
Missouri judge upholds ballot summary of amendment targeting private school vouchers - Missouri Independent - 27 October 2025
Learner Health & Well-Being
For teens dealing with substance use, a recovery school opens in Virginia - The Washington Post (subscription model) - 28 October 2025
🎧Autism: Tools to help doctors and parents - KidsX - 28 October 2025
🎧How one school prepares kids for school shootings while protecting them from trauma - NPR - 28 October 2025
Opinion: Young men are increasingly lonely, isolated and reading less - The Hechinger Report - 28 October 2025
Labor Market & Workforce
What Makes Some CTE Programs Great While Others Fall Short? - The 74 - 27 October 2025
U.S. labor market was expanding in mid-October, new weekly ADP report shows - MarketWatch (subscription model) - 28 October 2025
AI & EdTech
Students express hope — and fear — over classroom AI use - K-12 Dive - 28 October 2025
How can North Texas schools use AI to transform education? - The Dallas Morning News (subscription model) - 27 October 2025
Homework faces an existential crisis. Has AI made it pointless? - LA Times - 25 October 2025
State & Local News
Wisconsin | MPS to launch new van service to help homeless students get to school - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 28 October 2025
Chicago | ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us': Takeaways from Chicago children caught in immigration raids - Associated Press - 28 October 2025
NYC | Should the Mayor Control N.Y.C. Schools? Mamdani and Cuomo Don’t Agree. - The New York Times (subscription model) - 28 October 2025
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Volunteers foster literacy by reading to children and giving them books - NPR - 28 October 2025