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Teacher David Hope, left, instructs junior Madilyn Ruder during a firefighting and emergency Medical Technician (EMT) academy course at South Tech High School in Sunset Hills, Mo., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. Hope has to foot the bill to keep up with fast-changing EMT technology, something many districts don't cover for their career and technical education teachers.

A tutor works with students at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2025. The federal tax-credit scholarship program that launches next year can cover select expenses for public school students, including for tutoring. But to receive revenue from the program, public schools could have to set up systems to charge fees that the federally bankrolled scholarships can then cover.

Kids gather in a circle to learn how to play marbles during the after school programming in the community library in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn. on Oct. 1, 2026. The library is going beyond traditional academic enrichment to connect with a school district's literacy curriculum.

Ivana Moore, 33, reads a book to her son, Jahlil Moore, 4, during a community night hosted by the nonprofit Turning the Page at Lee Montessori-East End elementary school in Washington on Oct. 15, 2026.

Window air conditioning units at Bayard Taylor School in Philadelpia, pictured here on Sept. 8, 2023, do not cool the whole building. High classroom temperatures can make it harder for students to learn and perform well on tests, a new report outlines.

Broken water fountains are shown at Key Middle School on June 26, 2024, in Houston. A fifth of school districts had to call off classes during the 2024-25 school year due to facility problems, including plumbing emergencies and excessive heat and cold.

Assistant Director, Nicole Tews, walks a student through the administration office at the Cass Career Center in Harrisonville, Mo., on September 29, 2026. The center has a math and an English teacher who are integrated into students' industry-specific career programs.

Macomb Community College's South Campus in Warren, Mich., is shown on Oct. 15, 2026. In Michigan, 16 percent of community college students are high schoolers. Nationwide, dual enrollment now tops 3 million students.

Layton Heaper, a senior in the welding program at the Cass Career Center in Harrisonville, Mo., works on a project on Sept. 29, 2026. Through the school's integrated academics program, students learn and apply English and math skills related to future careers.

Nash Tilman, a participant in Fresno Unified school district's Teacher Academy Pathway, reads The Rose That Grew From Concrete, a poem by Tupac Shakur, to 6th grade students at Robinson Elementary on Nov. 7, 2025 in Fresno, Calif. A new study examines the extent to which high school education courses help more people become teachers.

A sign for the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington on May 4, 2021. The agency has proposed new regulations that would threaten the tax-exempt status of any private school that give racial minorities preference in admissions, scholarships, and programming.

Children place flowers at a makeshift memorial outside Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, a day after a deadly shooting. The child victims, ages 5, 8, and 11, include the youngest person killed in a school shooting since Education Week began<a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2026/01" target="_blank" link-data="{&quot;cms.site.owner&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000173-0561-d1f0-a17f-adef4bee0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ae3387cc-b875-31b7-b82d-63fd8d758c20&quot;},&quot;cms.content.publishDate&quot;:1792177418426,&quot;cms.content.publishUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000180-d7b2-d193-a1b2-dfbba3aa0001&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;cms.content.updateDate&quot;:1792177418426,&quot;cms.content.updateUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000180-d7b2-d193-a1b2-dfbba3aa0001&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;link&quot;:{&quot;disableUtmTracking&quot;:false,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;NEW&quot;,&quot;attributes&quot;:[],&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2026/01&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;000001a1-4619-d1d1-a3f3-f77b151b0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a&quot;},&quot;linkText&quot;:&quot; tracking these incidents&quot;,&quot;theme.brightspot-theme-default.:core:enhancement:Enhancement.hbs.enhancementAlignment&quot;:null,&quot;theme.brightspot-theme-default.:core:link:Link.hbs._template&quot;:null,&quot;theme.brightspot-theme-default.:core:link:Link.hbs.type&quot;:null,&quot;theme.brightspot-theme-default.:core:link:Link.hbs._preset&quot;:null,&quot;theme.brightspot-theme-default.:core:enhancement:Enhancement.hbs._preset&quot;:null,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;000001a1-4619-d1d1-a3f3-f77b14b10001&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288&quot;}"> </a>tracking those incidents eight years ago.

A student leaving Greenspun Junior High School in Henderson, Nev., enters a car in the travel lane of Valle Verde Drive on Sept. 14, 2022. Pedestrian fatalities near schools are most likely to occur in the early morning and early evening hours, federal data show.

The police department in Jackson, Mich., responded to a "swatting" incident directed at the city's Middle School at Parkside on May 8, 2025. Many schools across the country have experienced similar fake threats, which can scare teachers, students, and parents, and disrupt the school day.