Oregon’s 197 school districts will get nearly $77 million in additional funding this year from revenues generated from leases ...

Oregon Department of State Lands is distributing $76.8 million dollars to all 197 public school districts in the state as a ...

The Ohio Constitution requires the legislature to “secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state,” and forbids any “religious or other sect, or sects ...

For their part, K–12 schools have historically been among the most important institutions for effective assimilation of immigrants. The common schools were the public schools of their day ...

Proposals for a centralized federal education department began in the late 1830s with the rise of the Common School movement. The Common School movement called for free, universal, public ...

In fact, the Vermont commitment to common schools was boasted about and often cited as a reason for Vermont’s exceptional egalitarianism. Today, that commitment to public education is under attack.