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What happened in AI and education.
Meta agreed to a settlement of up to $17.1 billion with a coalition of state attorneys general to resolve claims its platforms harmed young users' mental health, and to redesign youth safety features on Instagram and Facebook.
A poll commissioned by the Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative found 56% of Michigan teachers are considering leaving the profession within five years and 25% within a year.
The School District of Philadelphia opened the 2026-27 school year on August 24, 2026, as it moves ahead with a board approved plan to close 17 schools over the next decade, with nine schools including Overbrook Elementary beginning their final year.
The Jefferson County, Colorado school board voted unanimously to refer two mill levy overrides totaling $133 million to the November 3 ballot.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration filed suit against the City Council over a new law giving public school paraprofessionals a $10,000 bonus, arguing it bypasses collective bargaining.
The Trevor Project and Glisten released a joint research brief finding that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive students who have supportive educators report higher grades, greater belonging, and fuller class participation.
The Colorado Department of Education publicly released the 2026 CMAS state assessment results, showing math proficiency rose across grades while literacy results were mixed for students in grades 3 through 8.
Common Sense Media released a nationally representative survey finding that 70 percent of U.S. teens use AI for schoolwork and that most who do so offload critical thinking, while few receive AI safety instruction from teachers.
New York City Public Schools released results of its redesigned 2026 annual school survey, which shortened and reworded questions and added new items on student vaping, bathroom access by gender identity, and inclusion.
The Detroit College Access Network and the Jamie and Denise Jacob Family Foundation opened the first Graduate 313 college and career hub on Detroit's west side, part of a $3.5 million neighborhood college access initiative.
The Chicago Board of Education voted at a special meeting to place two nonbinding advisory referendums on the November 2026 ballot, one asking voters about a statewide millionaires tax for education and one asking about a financial penalty on owners of vacant city land to fund Chicago Public Schools.
Indiana's third grade IREAD reading proficiency rose to 88.7 percent for 2025-26, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 rate for the first time in a fifth consecutive year of gains.
