Lauraine Langreo

The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

The Trump administration has touted efforts to prepare K-12 students for the workforce.

But last summer, the Education Department canceled 19 ongoing grants for school-based projects doing just that.

Scoop from me and @laurainegl.bsky.social: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

so proud to have been part of this bargaining committee (and to now be serving as unit chair)! of course, we couldn't have fought so hard for these things without the support of our members 💙

Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

Federal grant cuts/cancellations/terminations at the following agencies in the last year have affected K-12 schools:
-AmeriCorps
-Ag.
-Commerce
-Defense
-Energy
-Education
-HHS
-DHS
-DOJ
-Interior
-EPA
-IMLS
-NEA
-NEH
-NSF
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Rising Demand for Career Education Prompts College Board to Expand Its Footprint The organization is investing in the teacher pipeline for career and technical education.

Rising Demand for Career Education Prompts College Board to Expand Its Footprint: The organization is investing in the teacher pipeline for career and technical education.

4 Ways Schools Can Build a Stronger, Safer Climate A principal, a student, and a researcher discuss what makes a positive school climate.

4 Ways Schools Can Build a Stronger, Safer Climate: A principal, a student, and a researcher discuss what makes a positive school climate.

Should Schools Curtail the Use of Technology? Congress Fuels Debate Experts told lawmakers ed tech hurts student mental health without improving learning outcomes.

Should Schools Curtail the Use of Technology? Congress Fuels Debate: Experts told lawmakers ed tech hurts student mental health without improving learning outcomes.

How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE) Hundreds of districts have sued major social media companies over the youth mental health crisis.

How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE): Hundreds of districts have sued major social media companies over the youth mental health crisis.

How to Get More Students Into Computer Science Classes in the Age of AI The percentage of schools offering computer science classes has plateaued, a Code.org report found.

How to Get More Students Into Computer Science Classes in the Age of AI: The percentage of schools offering computer science classes has plateaued, a Code.org report found.

U.S. Department of Education Poised to Announce Significant Downsizing Many of the department's biggest programs could move to other agencies, advocates say.

BREAKING: The Trump administration appears poised to undertake its most significant effort yet to dismantle the Education Department. More from @beeschultz3.bsky.social and me for @edweek.org: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Cuts Grants That Were Helping College Students Become Teachers Ten universities collectively lost more than $20 million for efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.

New: In September, the Trump administration canceled more than $20 million for teacher-training programs at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.

Now some college students training for teaching careers may have to take out loans or drop out altogether. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

Federal funding cuts for K-12 schools continue to loom even as the government shutdown drags on. But what do the students who will be most affected by those cuts think? @laurainegl.bsky.social followed a few on Capitol Hill: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Are you a K-12 educator participating in or helping students with the Presidential AI Challenge? I'd love to chat with you! DM or email me: llangreo@educationweek.org.

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding: National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.

This is a really important issue, and my coworker @evieblad.bsky.social explains it perfectly:

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation

AWS Outage Hit Schools Hard. How to Prepare for the Next Tech Meltdown Schools need continuity plans that feature teaching without the help of technology.

Schools’ heavy reliance on the services of major technology companies comes with significant risks. Those risks became a reality this week when an outage at Amazon Web Services led to widespread internet disruptions. Story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/technology/a... #edtech

One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate: New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests: While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy: Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

Our unit has made concessions. It has worked cooperatively. It’s time for EdWeek to stop having its lowest paid employees shoulder the company’s financial future. It is EdWeek’s turn now to come back with a reasonable and meaningful offer.

EdWeek spent nearly DOUBLE our requested salary increase in legal expenses, per the company’s 2024 tax forms. Their lawyer once chastised us for asking for this raise just so we could “buy horses.” Our lowest paid employee makes less than $45,000. We don’t want horses. We want to buy groceries.

EdWeek management repeatedly has told us that we’re a nonprofit, and our salaries are reflective of that. Chalkbeat’s CEO made $298,306in 2024. 74 Million’s CEO made $266,904. Ours made $531,400. How can that logic only apply to our lowest paid employees?

The annual raise would cost the company approx. $140,000. We know this isn’t chump change. But the average salary of senior leadership at EdWeek is $300,776, while the average salary for an EdWeek employee is $73,854.

In the DMV, the cost of living is roughly $107,882 (SmartAsset). We’re not asking for anywhere near that. The salary floor would be a meaningful raise for 11 employees. We think this is a worthy investment to retain hardworking and diligent employees, and recruit new talent.

EdWeek came back initially with a 1% annual increase. Our membership—who struggle to afford rent and groceries, who rely on subsidies and second jobs to make ends meet—resoundingly said that this wasn’t good enough. EdWeek moved to 1.5%, before discretionary raises. It still isn’t enough.

We want to keep the hardworking employees we have, some who have given this company 20+ years. We want to recruit new talent to keep Education Week successful and ever-evolving. But it has to make sense for them to be here. And right now, for many, those numbers don’t add up.

We are asking for a 3.5% annual increase, before discretionary merit raises, and a salary floor of $65,000. Let’s be clear: This is a fair ask, one that is financially solvent and one that doesn’t risk the future of our company. In fact: The future is precisely what we’re worried about.

For 17 months, salary has been on the bargaining table. Despite our bargaining team’s creative and cooperative solutions to bring the unit’s needs closer to the company’s desires, we have again and again received disappointing—and insulting—counteroffers from management. Our staff deserves more.

Hi! We're the EdWeek Union - roughly 50 people who work tirelessly to make our nonprofit news organization a key destination for educators and the general public. We wanted to share an update on our efforts to bargain with management for a fair contract that protects all of us. 🧵
#union #solidarity

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

Elizabeth Bacon: Educators shouldn't fall for the “fallacy” that AI is the inevitable future because technology companies are the ones saying that and they have an incentive to say that.

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

Jed Williams: “So much of learning is being put into a situation that is cognitively challenging. These tools, fundamentally, are built on relieving the burden of cognitive challenge."