Primary & Secondary Education News

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, the world’s leading tech hub for the blue economy, today announced the appointment of businessman and philanthropist Jon Sutton Day to its Board of Trustees, effective March 31. A lifelong Angeleno, Day currently serves on the Board of Directors of the W.M. Keck Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations supporting medical research, science and engineering, and educational programs. He is on the Foundation’...

MANASSAS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prince William County Public Schools unveiled its new emissions-reducing propane school buses today at its Brentsville facility. The 62 Blue Bird Vision Propane buses are also the first from the company to come equipped with standard driver airbags. The propane buses were purchased from Blue Bird Bus Sales of Virginia. In collaboration with its corporate headquarters in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, the dealer provided a fully equipped 78-passenger propane school bus d...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HopSkipDrive, the leader in safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation, today released its seventh annual Safety Report. The data reveals that in 2025, 99.7% of rides were completed without a safety concern of any kind—a consistent benchmark maintained even as the company doubled its partner network to serve over 2,000 school districts, government agencies, and nonprofits nationwide. To date, HopSkipDrive remains the first and only company in the st...

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SageReport Launches to Address the Crisis in School Psychology with Advanced Report-Writing Technology...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thirty-nine states now require personal finance courses for high school graduation, making significant progress in financial literacy education, reports the Council for Economic Education’s (CEE’s) biennial Survey of the States. Four states, California, Delaware, Colorado and Hawaii, have newly mandated students take a semester-long personal finance course to graduate from high school, impacting an estimated 2.3 million high school students. Additionally, Kentucky and...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BFW Publishers Introduces AP® Business with Personal Finance textbook for new course launching 2026/27, blending AP rigor with career-relevant skills....

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Natural History Museum of Utah’s (NHMU) free, award‑winning online educator resource, Research Quest, is celebrating two major milestones: its 10‑year anniversary and its 1 millionth learning session delivered worldwide. Research Quest began as a collaboration between NHMU and the Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund, which in 2013 sought new ways to build critical thinking skills among middle school students. With myriad scientific objects in collec...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beyond Code Collective, a new nonprofit organization that bridges the gap between inspiration, training, and employment in technology by connecting learners to educational content and opportunities to develop cutting-edge technologies, today announced the launch of The Forge with the opening of its first Forge residency site in Atlanta, Georgia. The Forge is a new network of intergenerational, site-specific hubs that blend technology education, community engagement, an...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Public Schools has selected Xello as its CCR partner, strengthening alignment with the district’s My Career & Academic Planning Process....

NEWARK, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sallie Mae Fund is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Bridging the Dream Scholarship for High School Seniors. The Sallie Mae Fund’s Bridging the Dream Scholarship for High School Seniors, administered by Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), provides 30 high school students up to $10,000 each to help pay for higher education. Applicants must be Pell-Grant eligible high school seniors planning to attend an accredited two‑ or four‑year college or an eli...