Laws, budgets, scholarships, and the decisions that shape schools.
The 2026-27 state budget turns a one-time experiment into an ongoing grant of $75,000 to $400,000 per school. The first opt-in date has passed, but the next one is June 1.
Thirty states appear on the IRS list for the new federal scholarship tax credit and New York has said it will join. Every other state has until Jan. 1, 2027, to decide, with public comments on the proposed rule due Dec. 1.
In a Colorado case argued Nov. 3, a majority of justices appeared open to the Catholic preschools' side. A ruling could shape how every state with a mixed public and private pre-K or choice program writes its rules for religious schools.
Groups that want to open a new open-enrollment charter school in Texas have about a week left to file. Here is how the yearlong review works and when the State Board of Education gets its say.
The Texas comptroller has launched a transparency page for Texas Education Freedom Accounts and ordered an independent audit, as more than 95,000 eligible students wait for a spot in the program's first year.
