Much research has described how academic achievement can suffer when a student changes schools mid-year, but new research in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis finds that the arrival of new students in the middle of the school...

A minimum wage increase took effect at the start of the year in 19 states, bolstering the incomes of millions of workers from coast to coast.

The Trump administration on Jan. 20 issued an executive order freezing all Obama-era regulations not yet in effect, including the regulation governing accountability for the Every Student Succeeds Act, the 1-year-old federal education law.

The U.S. Postal Service will cease providing post office services at Staples stores by March.

As of Jan. 1, workers in France gained freedom from work during off hours — a provision dubbed the “right to disconnect.”

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law a bill blocking unions in the state from collecting dues from the non-member workers they represent.

President Trump’s Jan. 26 executive order puts the approximately 535,000 undocumented immigrants in New York City at risk of deportation, and their children who attend public schools now face being separated from their families.

The six million students with disabilities in public schools around the country will suffer the most if Betsy DeVos expands for-profit charters and private-school vouchers nationwide.

Sonia Dunkley has been a paraprofessional at PS 9 in the Bronx for 24 years. She loves her job so much that over the years she has told each of her four adult children some version of this: “Try what I’m doing and see if you like it.”

A ceramics workshop for parents is one way that PS 154 is trying to strengthen the connection of parents to this South Bronx school.