Education

Morse High School students on the Whiskeag trail in Bath for their Thursday detention hike.

In Maine, students choose a hike over detention

Madi Smith

Leslie Trundy at Morse High School in Bath has been piloting a program that takes kids out into nature rather than sitting inside for a traditional detention.

A white and red sign depicting a phone with a red stop symbol on top and "phones off and away" text is hung on a door in a school hallway.

Vermont Public

Joining a growing nationwide movement, Vermont lawmakers ban phones in school

Lola Duffort

The phone-free movement has been fueled by one of the potent forces in American politics: parents.

Six Dartmouth students staged a hunger strike on Tuesday, June 6, 2025. The six hunger strikers gathered at Dartmouth’s Baker Library on Tuesday. A spokesperson said they plan to return every day until the college reconsiders their demands to divest from companies supplying Israel's war on Gaza.

NHPR

Six Dartmouth protesters staged a hunger strike. One remains after 14 days.

Olivia Richardson

Protesters say the college has refused to negotiate its stance against a proposal to divest from companies supplying Israel’s war in Gaza.

A name is called at the Maloney High School graduation ceremony, and no one walk across the stage. The student was detained by federal immigration officers just days before. Classmate Ella Rossi cheers him anyway.

Connecticut Public

'Estamos unidos': At graduation, Meriden high school students honor a classmate detained by ICE

Daniela Doncel

Tuesday night's Maloney High School graduation ceremony was missing a student after he was taken into custody by federal immigration officials. The student and his father were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week after a scheduled check-in with ICE, officials said.

People walk through Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

NEPM

With new travel ban, UMass Amherst international community urged again to defer travel

Jill Kaufman

The new federal travel ban implemented by the Trump administration on certain countries as of June 9, 2025 comes with "a high degree of uncertainty" around actions and enforcement, UMass Amherst officials told the the international school community.

A bus drives in Lewiston at the end of the school day in November 2023.

Maine Public

Maine ranks in the bottom 10 states for K-12 education, according to a new report

Madi Smith

The 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book says Maine scored below the national average in preschool enrollment, graduation rates and test scores.

NHPR

These NH middle schoolers are calling out racism to change their peers’ mindsets

Annmarie Timmins

Timberlane Middle School is not alone when it comes to bullying and racism. But it has put students in charge of changing that.

FILE: Fran Rabinowitz, Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, at a press conference regarding COVID-19 guidance for schools on

Connecticut Public

CT superintendents 'beside themselves' about budget shortfalls

John Henry Smith

The shortfalls are sparking widespread concern and, in many communities, voter backlash, according to Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents.

NEPM

In Easthampton and Somerville lawsuit, federal judge blocks layoffs at U.S. Dept. of Ed.

Jill Kaufman

A federal judge in Boston Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education and ordered employees who were fired in mass layoffs to be re-instated. Easthampton was among the plaintiffs.

WBUR

Financial and political strain dampen graduation season

Carrie Jung

Massachusetts commencement season is in full swing. But things feel a little more intense for university graduates as the Trump administration cracks down on higher education.