Law and Policy
- San Diego taking notes on child care funding measures passed across the state
- Defense bill bans transgender medical coverage for children in military families
- In one-on-one interview, Governor Hochul says parents should expect ‘statewide policy’ that limits cell phone use in schools
- KISD board approves academic calendar for next school year
- KFOR wins legal case against Oklahoma State Department of Education
- Can minors have social media in Florida? What to know about new law coming Jan. 1
- Oklahoma education department proposal would track immigration status upon enrollment
- Senate passes defense policy bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members
- Council to OK bill giving small NYC religious, private schools millions to hire guards
- Contract for controversial entrance exam into ‘elite’ NYC public schools granted with panel vote
- Portland Public Schools board to decide on district-wide cell phone policy early next year
- Oklahoma’s Education Head Seeks to Impose Rule Targeting Undocumented Students
- Santa Ana Unified School District passes proposal to layoff hundreds of employees
- New Year, new laws: Georgia’s school vouchers expand, voting rules tighten for homeless
- Texas school district backtracks on removing Bibles to meet new law on ‘sexually explicit’ materials: ‘Wrong and likely illegal’
- New California law takes aim at homework burden on students
- New York enacts new laws to improve family life and health care in 2025
- Alabama’s newest laws: What child care tax credits, grants will mean for families in 2025
- Murrill: Guidance for schools on Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law coming this week
- New rule targets baby gates in Maine daycares to ensure clear evacuation paths
- New policies begin as LAUSD students head back to school
- Portland Public Schools Establishes Districtwide “Off and Away All Day” Phone Policy
- Proposed bill would dissolve IPS and 4 other Indiana school districts
- Schools around the US are weighing responses to possible immigration raids
- Hochul proposes largest increase on record for child tax credit
- Oklahoma lawmakers have cut preschool funding. To improve outcomes, it’s time to reverse that trend
- Alabama high schoolers may soon have another requirement before they can graduate
- Child Tax Credit Change Would Make Millions of People No Longer Eligible
- Kids Online Safety Act Could Leave Homeschooled Kids Without Crucial Resources
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Texas Senate will pass bill providing tax dollars for students to attend private school
- Trump signs order restricting gender care for young people
- Duval County explores options for new school start schedules
- Republicans push to make electric school bus mandate optional
- School cell phone ban passes Arkansas Senate committee
- Oklahoma lawmaker files bill that could cut special education services for some students
- Trump signs order aiming to bar transgender athletes from female school sport
- Gov. JB Pritzker signs law to make it easier for children’s relatives to become foster parents
- Lawmakers consider parental approval for kids’ social media usage
- ‘Free societies don’t ban books’: State bill aims to protect public school libraries from book bans
- Effort to install cameras in special education classrooms falters over funding concerns
- West Virginia bill would require a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day
- Bills proposed to fix Oklahoma’s child care deserts
- Kindergarteners Could Learn Gun Safety in School Under a Bill Gaining Momentum in Utah
- How Maryland legislators would fix the child care workforce shortage
- West Virginia lawmakers want to place the Ten Commandments in classrooms
- West Virginia could bring back corporal punishment in schools
- Alabama Lawmakers Kill Bill to Punish Parents Who Fail to Prevent Kids From Bringing Guns to School
- Bill would require student disciplinary records be transferred to new school within three days
- Bill to allow school boards to decide number of instructional days passes committee
- State Senate passes bill giving $40 million in funding for special education
- Republican lawmaker files bills to ban DEI in Texas K-12 public schools
- Washington Legislature looks to strengthen school safety with new penalties
- Governor Little signs bill boosting Idaho education options for families
- Pennsylvania lawmakers claim ‘Fair Funding Formula’ for schools is anything but ‘fair’ in budget
- New bill would require more training for teachers to help special education students in distress
- Idaho Governor Signs $50 Million Private School Choice Bill into Law
- House widely passes child care facility de-regulation bill
- Pennsylvania lawmakers introduce bill to eliminate school meal debt, provide free lunch
- Idaho Gov. Little’s office received more than 32,000 requests to veto House Bill 93
- Governor signs universal school voucher bill, calling it ‘remarkable achievement for Wyoming’
- Gov. Whitmer to propose banning cell phones in classrooms during State of State
- State Senator Against Childcare Bill
- Texas senators consider ‘parental rights’ bills to end DEI in schools
- Gordon To Sign Bill To Provide $7,000 Per Child School Vouchers For K-12
- Deal struck: Revised special education funding bills pass after Lamont veto
- School discipline bill on the move
- Tennessee kids will have to say goodbye to cellphones in schools
- Bill to deregulate Idaho daycares prompts emotional testimony in committee hearing
- GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions
- Universal preschool bill dies as some Colorado preschool programs still complain of bumps
- WV Senate passes elementary student discipline bill, state teachers union calls measure ‘great step’
- Oklahoma House approves bills to accept Classic Learning Test, remove chronic absenteeism metric
- Renewed push to reshape ethnic studies with oversight and new standards
- Colorado Senate passes bill to help ease teacher shortage
- Bill advancing in Senate makes manipulating children for prostitution illegal
- Bill before Oregon Legislature would fund early childhood ‘hubs’ to support parents and babies
- Washington County Moms for Liberty opposes newly introduced Freedom to Read Act
- Oklahoma senate passes bill prohibiting cellphone usage in schools
- Idaho Considers Legislation To Force Bible Into Classrooms
- Texas House bill would revise school discipline policies
- All work restrictions would be lifted on 16- and 17-year-olds in Florida under new bill
- Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
- Tennessee law passes to not require childcare licensing
- Parents’ concerns prompt legislative action on sober living home rules in Hamilton County
- Bill that allows TN schools to require students to show citizenship status passes Senate committee
- New fight over phonics
- West Virginia Governor signs school discipline bill into law, outlining school discipline procedures for violent and threatening behavior in the classroom
- Tennessee bill to extend foster care benefits to adults 18 to 23 unanimously passes House, Senate
- Morrisey signs bill allowing teachers to remove students from class
- ICYMI: President Trump Signs TAKE IT DOWN Act into Law
- Ted Cruz introduces bill incentivizing K-12 scholarships
- Michigan State House passes bills preventing transgender girls from competing in K-12 sports
- Education bill to improve student discipline passes in Texas
- Ayotte signs bills to eliminate school voucher income cap and codify parental rights
- Child grooming law to go into effect July 1
- US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee prohibition on gender-affirming care for children
- Hawley, Durbin Reintroduce Bill Combatting Online Child Sexual Abuse Material
- Pennsylvania House passes bill clarifying legal parent-child relationship when using a surrogate
- Texas governor signs bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms
- Is It a Crime To Let Your Child Walk Alone? In Georgia, Parents See New Legal Protections.
- Texas students’ cell phones banned from schools under new law
- Telehealth abortions are on the rise since Roe was overturned three years ago
- Zoey’s Law: Limit on Prince George’s police pursuits sought after child’s death
- Red state now offers preferred parking for pregnant women
- New Jersey Lawmakers Are Considering 2 Bills To Heavily Regulate Homeschooling
- School discipline bill to go into effect next month when classes resume
- New national school voucher program included in ‘big, beautiful’ law, with no cap on cost
- New West Virginia law increases penalties for child abuse, neglect
- DeSantis signs law allowing death penalty for child rape, defying US Supreme Court ruling
- It took years of protests, and Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act
- AB 665: Children: consent to mental health services
- Florida makes back-to-school sales tax holiday permanent, but critics say relief falls short
- NJ bill would expand full health coverage to undocumented pregnant women and infants
- California governor signs executive order to support boys and men and improve their mental health
- Illinois becomes first state to require mental health screenings for students
- In California, parents may lose custody of the child if they resist gender transition
- Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders
- Texas children camps must remove cabins from floodplains, operate warning systems under new laws
- Texas’ new parental consent law leaves school nurses confused about which services they can provide to students
- Revised Missouri law adds protection against online predators
- Attorney General James Releases Proposed Rules for SAFE for Kids Act to Restrict Addictive Social Media Features and Protect Children Online
- Judge denies Planned Parenthood’s request to halt Nevada parental notification law
- California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation
- Missouri senator prepares to introduce bill regulating AI chatbots for children
- Gov. Reynolds signs executive order requiring E-Verify use for all state departments
- Senator Josh Hawley Introduces New A.I. GUARD Bill
- Tennessee Senators Introduce Bill Targeting Violent Juvenile Crime
- Why Garland ISD Still Operates Under a Federal Desegregation Order—and Why the Trump Administration Is Moving to End It
- Trump’s $1,000 Trump Accounts for Babies Ignite a Financial Frenzy as Tax Season Kicks Off
- Parents Could Go to Jail If Their Children Spark Massive Teen Brawls, New Jersey Law Makes Waves
- Lawmakers Say Enough Is Enough as Pennsylvania Advances Total School Phone Ban
- Trump Administration to Revoke Passports of Parents Behind on Child Support
- Hawley Confronts Netflix CEO in Heated Senate Showdown Over Gender Themes in Youth Programming
- Missouri Lawmakers Advance Bill to Boost Daily Physical Activity in Schools, Framing It as a Child Health Safeguard
- Living the TeacherFIRE Revolution: How Bridgewater’s Care for Players Reached the Florida Senate
- Rep. Nancy Mace Introduces Bill to Make Death Penalty Possible in Federal Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- Louisiana Bill Seeks to Dismantle DCFS, Reshape State’s Child Protection System
- Virginia Bill Strengthens Child Abuse Reporting Penalties Amid Concerns Over Hospital Accountability
- Birthright Citizenship Debate Raises Child Protection Concerns as Supreme Court Reviews Potential Impact on Newborns
- Missouri Law Bars Judges From Delaying Divorces Over Pregnancy, Sparking Child Safeguarding Debate
- Alabama Lawmakers Approve Sweeping Sex Education Overhaul, Mandating Abstinence-Only Instruction and Banning Contraceptive Guidance
- Child Safety or Thought Control? Social Media Ban Debate Sparks Fears of Government Censorship
- Kansas Sparks Outrage After Passing Controversial Law Targeting School Walkouts and Student Protests
- Kansas Education Shake-Up: House Approves Mandatory Civics Test for High School Graduation