California earmarked $300 million a year for career education programs — the hands-on classes that often keep struggling learners engaged in school. A 2-to-1 matching requirement sent $115 million back to the state instead of the classrooms that needed it.
California locked preschool into Proposition 98’s constitutional guarantee — a genuine funding win. But for the one in five children who will struggle to read, stable funding and the right early instruction are two different things. Here’s what parents should ask before the window closes.
Pennsylvania’s $55 million special education increase looks like progress. Only 8 percent of students with disabilities read at grade level, unchanged from last year, and the law mandating proven reading instruction received a fraction of the funding it needs to work.
By the time most schools spot a reading struggle, a child has spent months falling behind. CICESE scientists built a game that catches the same risk at four — through rhythm, before reading starts.
A federal appeals court revived 500+ Tylenol suits Monday. Coverage treated it as a scientific story about ADHD and autism. The JAMA study of 708,020 pregnancies published two weeks earlier found no causal link. Here is what the ruling actually decided, and what the science actually says.
Six states enacted laws to track and punish chronic absenteeism in 2026. What none of them require: finding out whether the child staying home has a learning challenge the school never addressed.
More than half of Nevada third graders are not reading at grade level. The state is fighting over whether to retain them in third grade. Neither side is talking about what happened to their reading instruction in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
Rural employers demanded soft skills for years. This fall, 120+ Kansas schools are credentialing them. Research on learning differences explains why parents of struggling kids should pay attention now.
The education system built an entire infrastructure to find reading differences. It never built the equivalent for math. A March 2026 Parliamentary brief confirms the cost: a child with dyslexia is an estimated 100 times more likely to be diagnosed than a child with dyscalculia.
UChicago Law School banned laptops from all first-year classrooms as the cornerstone of a new AI strategy. The reason the coverage missed: this is what learning science says to do. For parents of children still building foundational reading skills, the implication is direct.
