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News Articles: Education

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  • Education

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

January 16, 2026
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By:
  • Cory Turner

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  • News

The governor’s budget sets aside funding for long-awaited needs-based aid in Georgia

Georgia is an outlier when it comes to the money available for college students without the money for an education or the grades and test scores for a merit-based scholarship. But that could be changing with the expansion of the University of Georgia Foundation’s DREAMS Scholarship program announced by Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday.

January 16, 2026
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By:
  • Ross Williams and
  • Georgia Recorder

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  • Education

More students are going to college. Affordability and workforce training are factors

Overall enrollment is up slightly at colleges and universities, driven by gains at community colleges and public four-year programs.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Matt Smith

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  • News

Education experts set top priorities for 2026 legislative session

Education experts are setting their priorities for the upcoming 2026 legislative session that begins Monday.

January 09, 2026
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Children sleep during nap time at Minnesota Child Care in Minneapolis on Dec. 30.

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  • Education

Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding

The Child Care and Development Fund sends money to states to help make child care more affordable for low-income families. Allegations of fraud in Minnesota have put the program under scrutiny.

January 06, 2026
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By:
  • Kadin Mills,
  • Sequoia Carrillo,
  • and 1 more
Teddie Ussery, left, is a Columbus State University Foundation Board of Trustees member and former chair. She retired from Synovus as a senior vice president and founded Family Office Matters. She poses in November 2025 with her sister Penny Elkins on the balcony of the Mercer University School of Medicine building in Columbus. Elkins will become president of Mercer on Jan. 1. Mark Rice mrice@ledger-enquirer.com

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  • Education

How this Columbus native became Mercer University’s first female president

Last month, when the Mercer University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve Penny Elkins as the 19th — and first female — president in the institution’s 192-year history, they did more than make history.

December 25, 2025
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By:
  • Mark Rice and
  • The Ledger Enquirer

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  • Education

Student loan borrowers in default may soon see their wages garnished

About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.

December 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Federal student loans are changing. Here's what to expect in 2026

The SAVE Plan is ending and repayment options will change dramatically in the new year.

December 23, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
<em>Ailsa Ostovitz, left, and her mother, Stephanie Rizk, at their home in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. In mid-November, Rizk met with Ostovitz's teachers to discuss accusations that her daughter had used AI to do some of her schoolwork.</em>

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  • Education

Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong?

School districts from Utah to Ohio to Alabama are spending thousands of dollars on these tools, despite research showing the technology is far from reliable.

December 16, 2025
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By:
  • Lee V. Gaines
First responders with the Providence Fire Department maneuver an empty stretcher near the Barus and Holley building at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday.

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  • National

Brown University shooting victims identified; the gunman remains at large

The two students killed in the attack at Brown University are MukhammadAziz Umurzokov,18, and Ella Cook, 19. The shooter was still at large as of Monday afternoon, police said.

December 16, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez,
  • Rebecca Rosman,
  • and 1 more
Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at a Head Start program in Miami in January 2025.

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  • Education

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.

December 11, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
AI committee meeting

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  • Politics

State lawmakers plan for bipartisan legislation to regulate cellphone, technology use in schools

State senators on the special committee investigating the impacts of social media and artificial intelligence on children say they will file bipartisan legislation to regulate tech use in schools.

December 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis

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  • Education

Millions of borrowers in Biden's SAVE plan would start paying under new settlement

Legal challenges put SAVE borrowers in limbo for months, a time during which they were not required to make payments on their loans. That would change if the proposed settlement is approved.

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The U.S. Education Department is house in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, pictured here in March in Washington, D.C.

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  • Education

Education Department recalls fired attorneys amid civil rights complaint backlog

The department said recalling these fired staffers would "bolster and refocus" civil rights enforcement "in a way that serves and benefits parents, students, and families."

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Law enforcement responds to a shooting at Whitney Moore Young Jr. Hall on Kentucky State University's campus in Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday.

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  • National

1 student dead, 1 critically injured in shooting at Kentucky State University

Classes and campus activities were canceled for the rest of the week after a shooting that police said left one student dead and another in critical condition. Police said a suspect who is not a KSU student was in custody.

December 09, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
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