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House leaders just dropped their FY26 education bill, slashing $12.1 billion (15%) in K-12 funding for public education. It guts the very programs that keep our public schools running — while boosting charter start-up/expansion to $500,000,000. What they’re cutting: Title I: –27% slashed — funding that provides targeted education services like remedial reading, with the worst impact targeting students in high-poverty schools in cities and rural communities. English Language Acquisition Grants: Gone. Title II-A (teacher training & support): Eliminated. Full-Service Community Schools: Zeroed out. Cuts of this magnitude will crowd classrooms, strip student supports, widen inequities, and push more schools into crisis — especially in rural and high-need communities. Send your letter now.

These measures touch nearly every aspect of life, from education and healthcare to public safety, property rules and support for first responders. With so many changes coming at once, Texans can expect a variety of noticeable impacts on their daily lives.

Trump’s cuts to health care, food aid, after-school programs, and education programs put millions of children at risk.

A data-driven source asking tough questions about US higher education. Featured in national publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Three court rulings uphold schools' rights to continue to provide an inclusive curriculum, teach the full history, and support students in accordance with their needs.

Our civilization may be facing a “single gargantuan crash,” but collapse isn’t destiny. It’s a choice.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors.

A new study shows that children under the age of 13 who had access to a smartphone were more likely to have suicidal thoughts, lower self-worth, and detachment from reality compared to their older peers.

Alice O’Brien, general counsel for the National Education Association, walks through your rights, risks, and opportunities to push back against anti-equality policies and fear tactics.

Christian Nationalism is vast, resilient and dangerous.

"Myth America" tackles historical misinformation masks as patriotism through a series of essays by historians.

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association

Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of “The 1619 Project" considers efforts to ban books as an assault on freedom.

Re: “Pastors call new trend dangerous — They warn rise in Christian nationalism is ‘not our faith’, ” Oct. 9 Metro story, and “Christian nationalism is,...

In reversing damaging acts of colonization, these movements are returning land and critical cultural connections back to indigenous peoples across North America.

Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.

There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Here is the breakdown of some of the biggest groups.

A multigenerational fight for reparations is underway from Palm Springs to Gold Rush country

City officials agreed to pay $150,000 to Jacqueline Craig after she and her daughter were arrested in 2016.

More control may mean that some materials won’t be as readily accessible to the public as they once were. But it also means that the descendants of the people on tape will decide what materials should be in the public realm.

Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning.

Four Black students allege that Denver Public Schools unlawfully tried to trademark the name of their Know Justice, Know Peace podcast.

Philip Yancey grew up a “born and bred” racist before becoming a best-selling Christian author. He explains how his views changed, and what it would take for White evangelicals to abandon Donald Trump.

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

A new report finds that the number of people choosing to disaffiliate from Christianity is increasing – and could overtake the nation's Christian majority.

The Slave Dwelling Project in South Carolina highlights the violent resistance of freedom-seeking enslaved Blacks.

The American Indian Studies Program exists to assist with curricular requirements on American Indian history

In a famous example of ‘literary inquisition’ in Chinese history, more than 1,000 people were punished for the publication of one book, including the author’s family, printers and buyers.