Beth Hawkins

25 years of commissions & task forces have created broad agreement that unfair school finance system must go. But is there a political roadmap?

Minnesota's lieutenant gov promoted free school lunch & Indigenous curriculum, served on Minneapolis's school board and was Walz's political mentor.

New analysis of federal civil rights data finds stark disparities in advanced courses, dual enrollment classes and college-admission tests.

CDC finds 3.3% of U.S. high schoolers identify as transgender. They report alarmingly high rates of depression, harassment, in-school victimization.

With 12,000 seats up for grabs nationwide, can a new candidate recruiting effort tame some of the red-hot races at the bottom of the ticket?

New Orleans district leaders miscalculated local tax revenues — and didn't alert schools until 3 months into the academic year.

Meyer's time teaching in a high-poverty school put K-12 inequities atop his platform. Can he translate that to political willpower?

Crisis intervention providers say they are flooded with calls from terrified youth — and from parents and teachers afraid they can’t protect them.

9 families sued 5 districts claiming the mandate is unconstitutional. Rule will take effect in the other 68 on Jan. 1

Schools with promising strategies hold both general education teachers and special educators responsible for all students’ growth, researchers found.