A district says enrollment decline requires a cheaper building. Parents say moving at-risk students to portables behind the school they fled will undo the one environment where their kids finally succeeded. The research on what happens when you remove a struggling learner’s scaffold backs the parents.
Connecticut signed a law in June making AI and computer science mandatory in every K-12 classroom starting this fall. For the 1 in 5 students who already struggle with reading or attention, a mandate is only as useful as the implementation plan behind it. Here are three questions worth asking your school now.
Arkansas approved 51,041 school choice vouchers for 2026-27 — but more than half of participating private schools charge more than the $7,208 the state provides. For families of children who need specialized learning programs, the gap runs much deeper. What the voucher covers, who gets priority, and what to ask before you commit.
Pennsylvania is adding $50 million to special education as part of a court-ordered adequacy push. But costs have doubled since 2009 while funding grew 21 percent. The harder question: does the money build the skill, or fund the system that manages around it?
The one randomized trial that tested LSD for ADHD against a placebo found no meaningful difference. A 2026 systematic review explains why the headlines promising a psychedelic fix outran the actual science by miles.
A 2026 study of 80,000 toddlers found genetic markers for ADHD appear in early temperament. But genetics accounts for only about 10% of the picture. The rest is shaped by what happens next, and the neuroscience says that part is very much in play.
Iowa State and Embry-Riddle researchers found AI shifts writing effort to planning and revision, not away from it. For children whose writing challenge is in the transcription layer, that finding changes the case for AI as an accommodation entirely.
North Carolina’s budget expands reading screening to grades 4-5 and adds early math screeners for the first time. These are overdue moves. But for any child who comes home with a screener flag, the result is only step one. Here is what every NC parent should ask immediately.
California’s phone ban takes effect today across 10,000-plus public schools. The biggest US study found test scores barely moved. Here is what the research says parents should do instead of waiting for a law to fix attention.
A 2022 Cambridge study proposed dyslexia confers an explorative creativity advantage. A meta-analysis the same year found no consistent evidence. Both studies belong in any honest conversation about what this means for your child right now.
