Wednesday is Education Support Professionals Day, and as American Education Week continues, Wisconsin educators are emphasizing how crucial the workers are to schools, and the challenges they face when trying to help some of the most vulnerable students.

October payments for Impact Aid have been delayed because of the shutdown and firings in the Department of Education.

The vast majority of staff in Department of Education’s Office of Impact Aid were fired as part of the department’s recent reduction in force creating uncertainty around when funding will be released to districts.

Each year several Northwoods counties and school districts within the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest receive federal funding.The Secure Rural Schools funding goes towards schools and the roads that lead to them.But the program is being held up—despite wide bipartisan support for it.

Head Start is a 100% federally funded program with locations all across the country.It primarily focuses on three and four-year-olds from low-income families.

The bill was passed with bipartisan support. It requires districts to prohibit phone use during class time.

Peggy Wirtz-Olsen of the Wisconsin Education Association council, also a high school teacher, said Wisconsin educators have already been sounding the alarm about the lack of special education funding

A proposed ballot initiative to help close Michigan’s $4.5 billion school funding gap has won the endorsement of the State Board of Education

A $20 million boost from the Legislature is expanding oral health training programs, aiming to ease a dental worker shortage.