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The first five years of a child’s life are among the most critical for their development. Those years lay a foundation and prepare them for kindergarten, often setting them up for success throughout school and beyond. But immense disparities exist in whether parents across the country report their child as ready for kindergarten, new data from the National Survey for Children’s Health shows.

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s teachers’ union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop immigration agents from carrying out enforcement activity at or near schools.

After more than a year of uncertainty over how a Republican-controlled Congress under President Donald Trump would change federal education funding, lawmakers on Tuesday approved a fiscal 2026 budget that maintains level funding for virtually every existing K-12 program. Schools nationwide can expect roughly similar year-over-year funding levels this fall for key programs like Title I for students from low-income households, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for special education services, Title II for professional development, and Title III for English learners.

About 25 percent of students in the St. Paul Public Schools are learning virtually right now amid the federal immigration surge in the Twin Cities, the district superintendent told MPR News.

Pura Belpré Awards honor outstanding books celebrating the Latine cultural experience. Here are the 2026 winners from the ALA Youth Media awards.

Renée Watson’s “All the Blues in the Sky,” in which the author blends poetry and prose to tell the story of a teen confronting the death of her best friend, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.

Today’s post is the final one in a series where educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English Learners, and how to respond to them.

Millions of children have grown up watching PBS Kids’ educational TV, geared toward 2- to 8-year-olds—from classics like “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” to recently added shows like “Lyla in the Loop.” Over the years, the content has evolved to include digital games, apps, and podcasts across a variety of platforms, plus curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, and lesson plans from PBS Learning Media. But access to this educational content is in jeopardy due to federal funding cuts.

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how we work, communicate and create. In education, however, the conversation is stuck...And that is why, last year, rather than debate whether AI belongs in schools, approximately 40 policymakers and sector leaders took stock of the roadblocks in an education system designed for a different era and wrestled with what it would take to move forward responsibly.

A growing number of education advocacy groups say aggressive immigration enforcement tactics are having a devastating impact on students’ access to education. They are calling on Congress to make funding for the Department of Homeland Security conditional on a less-disruptive approach to enforcement than what agents from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have used.