Highlights
Meet the National Principals Association: Why the 110-Year-Old Org. Rebranded - Education Week (subscription model) - 17 March 2026
Kids Who Were Babies During COVID Are Now Struggling With Reading and Math - The 74 - 17 March 2026
Judge orders Texas to extend school voucher deadline in response to lawsuit from Islamic schools - The Texas Tribune - 17 March 2026
Federal Policy & Politics
Bipartisan Science of Reading Bill Passes House Committee - The 74 - 17 March 2026
Kent Warns Accreditors Over DEI - Inside Higher Ed - 18 March 2026
K-12 Education
Poverty, school size can hinder improvement odds, GAO reports - K-12 Dive - 18 March 2026
What’s Cool in High School? Personal Finance - The Wall Street Journal (subscription model) - 17 March 2026
What Happens When a Shorter School Calendar Meets Chronic Absenteeism? - Education Week (subscription model) - 17 March 2026
The Data We Can’t Afford to Hide: The Need for More Transparency on Absenteeism - The 74 - 18 March 2026
Early Learning & Child Care
AI ‘Slop’ Is Flooding Children’s Media. Parents Should Be Very Alarmed. - The 74 - 18 March 2026
A $50 million push hopes to make child care a top issue in the midterm elections - Associated Press - 17 March 2026
Educator Talent & Staffing
As NYC expands free child care, CUNY tries to grow its teacher pipeline - Chalkbeat - 17 March 2026
A Teacher Shortage Solution: Grow Your Own - The 74 - 18 March 2026
Technology & AI
SXSW showcases the power of human agency in the robot future - ImpactAlpha (subscription model) - 16 March 2026
Student Health, Safety & Nutrition
Colleges struggle to keep up with growing mental health problems - The Hill - 18 March 2026
Catching Bad Days Before They Become Behavior Problems - Education Week (subscription model) - 16 March 2026
Teens Are Sleeping Less. Why Schools Should Be Worried - Education Week (subscription model) - 17 March 2026
Defining ‘ultraprocessed’ could spur research, school lunch rules - Roll Call - 18 March 2026
Workforce & Career Pathways
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns AI could leave the class of 2026 facing the highest unemployment in years—even without a recession - Fortune (subscription model) - 18 March 2026
What Happens When Employers Co-Design the Cybersecurity Classroom - EdSurge - 18 March 2026
School Choice
Kentucky school choice bill set to become law after Senate overrides Beshear veto - WDRB - 18 March 2026
School choice dead in Legislature, but private school tax credit bills alive - Mississippi Today - 18 March 2026
State & Local News
Colorado | Parents and educators testify for CMAS assessment time review in hopes of finding 'balance' - 16 March 2026
Kansas | Kansas high schoolers could be required to take American citizenship test to graduate - Kansas Reflector - 18 March 2026
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