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Opportunity to Learn Dashboard

This dashboard explores some of the factors impacting students’ opportunities to learn and the disparities in opportunity to learn experienced by Black and white students in a given state. These factors are initial indicators of potential disparities in students’ opportunity to learn.

The Opportunity to Learn Dashboard is a joint project of the National Center for Youth Law and The Schott Foundation for Public Education.

Governors’ Top Education Priorities in 2025 State of the State Addresses

In a critical year for state education policy, Education Commission of the States tracked, analyzed and identified education policy trends in 49 governors’ State of the State addresses to help you understand trending education issues across states, with accompanying state examples.

See All the Lawsuits Filed Over Trump’s Education Policies

Education Week has identified lawsuits that challenge either Trump administration education policies or broader policies from the administration that affect education. The chart details each of those lawsuits and their status as they make their way through the courts.

NAEd, AERA, and Other Education Research Associations Issue Joint Letter to Congress

Read the joint letter released by several education research associations on March 25, 2025, calling on Congress to safeguard federal education data, statistics and research.

Challenging Times: How U.S. Nonprofit Leaders are Experiencing the Political Context

This research snapshot examines how nonprofits are experiencing the rapid shifts in policy and the current U.S. political climate under a new presidential administration.

Brookings Scholars Analyze Trump’s Order to Dismantle the Department of Education

Brown Center scholars examine the significant legal, political, and logistical obstacles to dismantling the agency, offering a detailed analysis of how the order is misleading and omits key context.