Edlection 2022 News Today

Skye Oduaran was reading a Scholastic Magazine in fifth grade when she noticed a section inviting youth to apply for positions as kid reporters with the magazine. It intrigued her, so she sent in an application. Fast forward six months and the Atlanta 12-year-old now has zig-zagged across her state, scoring interviews with a sitting […]

Voters delivered powerful messages on Election Day, not all of them consistent: They want schools to focus on education, not culture wars. Vouchers got a boost in Oklahoma but were rejected in Wisconsin. The red wave never materialized, but neither did a blue one.  These post-election crosscurrents will be the topic of a webinar sponsored […]

Youth voters contributed to better-than-expected results for Democrats nationwide this election cycle, turning out at their second-highest midterm rate in three decades. Some 27% of all people ages 18 to 29 cast ballots, more than in any recent midterm election except 2018, according to estimates from Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic […]

Georgia’s Republican schools Superintendent Richard Woods appears headed for a third term. In unofficial results, he’s leading Democratic challenger Alisha Thomas Searcy with over 54% of the vote.  During the campaign, Searcy, a former state representative who supports school choice, touted her ability to work across the aisle. But with Republicans prevailing in other statewide […]

In Wisconsin, the first surprise served up by the midterms was the re-election of Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers, in a state where electoral maps are controlled by the GOP.  The second was that the race was decided before most voters turned off the news and went to bed. The third: Republican challenger Tim Michels, […]

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt won a second term Tuesday night, handily defeating state Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, a centrist Democrat who switched parties to challenge the incumbent and put up a tough fight in one the nation’s most conservative states. While Hofmeister occasionally led the polls in the weeks before the election, the race wasn’t close […]

Updated The youth vote could prove consequential for the Arizona governor’s race, which remained too close to call: Democrat Katie Hobbs was barely leading Republican star and former Fox news anchor Kari Lake Wednesday evening in a contest that continued to tighten.  Exit polls show 76% of Arizona voters ages 18-29 cast their ballots for […]

Young voters in Georgia have a reputation to maintain this election season, but 20-year-old Alex Ames is worried.  In both 2018 and 2020, uncharacteristically high voter turnout among young people — a bloc whose election-day apathy has long been well documented — delivered unmistakable political power. Just two years ago, young voters, and Black youth […]

We’re just now beginning to process how COVID has reshaped our schools — and the state of our education politics.  From historic test score declines to fractured learning recovery efforts, a teen mental health emergency, a high school absenteeism crisis and imploding college enrollment, the foundation of our education system has been rocked. Amid these […]

California’s race for state superintendent is in its final days. But according to some local observers, the outcome has been in hand for most of the year. Incumbent Superintendent Tony Thurmond might have avoided campaigning entirely, in fact, if he’d picked up just a few extra points of support in the June primary. Instead, he […]