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The bills would allow eligible families to use tax credit-driven scholarships to pay for education-related expenses—like private school tuition or standardized testing fees.

The U.S. and China are rushing to develop hypersonic weapons. Critics worry it's turning into a race without end.

Elementary school teacher Katy Wright in Montana decided to ask her students how they feel about having to wear masks in school.

Congress is back and trying to tackle a number of pressing issues before the end of the month, including negotiations over President Biden's infrastructure and social spending packages.

Thousands of teachers, nurses and other public servants are learning they could have some of their federal student loan debts erased months — and even years — earlier than expected.

Democrats aim to wrap up their to-do list. A Florida school district will pay $25 million to the families of Parkland shooting victims. School board elections are the new political battlefields.

An Indiana steel plant closed in 2017 and hundreds of jobs went to Mexico. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Farah Stockman about her book: American Made — What Happens to People when Work Disappears.

This year, typically sleepy school board elections have become fraught with fights over masks, vaccines and diversity curricula. Could this affect races higher up the ballot in 2022 and 2024?

Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says a higher vaccination rate would help protect older people with risk factors.

Jackson, Miss., is a city with two identities. There's the part which is more than 80% Black, led by a mayor who wants to make it "the most radical city on the planet." Then there's the state capital.