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The article focuses on bills proposed by 15 U.S. states including Florida, Ohio, and Arizona in the 2021-22 legislative session that would restrict instruction, curriculum, and books featuring LGBTQ themes or people in schools. Topics discussed include restricting the way in which racism and race are discussed in schools, the views of Arizona State Representative John Kavanagh, and Tennessee bill that would restrict the adoption of textbooks normalizing LGBT issues.

The article profiles three U.S. states including Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts at various stages of revising civics education requirements in their states and what they've learned along the way. Topics include emphasis on civics at the middle school level in Florida, addition of a brand-new requirement for a semester of high school civics in Illinois and with Massachusetts being the first state to require each middle and high school to include at least one student-led civics project.

The article explores what happened to students left behind as Florida expanded its voucher program which include the nation's largest tax-credit scholarship program, and also discusses student outcomes against different measures, and alternative explanations for the results.

The article discusses a 2013 lawsuit filed against Florida's education department and education commissioner Tony Bennett by the National Education Association (NEA) teachers' union regarding Florida's teacher evaluations, which the NEA claims are sometimes based on the academic achievement of students or subjects unrelated to the teacher. State standardized tests, teacher salaries, and teachers' constitutional rights are also mentioned.

This article reports that there are two U.S. states in which teachers' unions have threatened to withhold endorsement of applications by their states for federal education grants under the Race to the Top program. Florida teachers are opposed to any provisions which would connect teacher evaluations and compensation bonuses to student achievement tests. Teachers in Minnesota are holding out for inclusion of a voluntary program involving teacher compensation and evaluations.

The article presents information originally published on the publication's blog on a May 2014 court decision regarding a teacher-evaluation system in Florida, and the belief of the U.S. National Education Association and the Florida Education Association (FEA) that the system is flawed.

The article reports on the 2014 release of Florida's value-added data on teachers, which is a statistical method used to determine the impact of teachers on their students' standardized-test scores.

The article reports that several U.S. states were granted federal funding through the U.S. federal Race to the Top competition in August 2010, including Hawaii, Florida, and Massachusetts. The challenge of each state to put the $4 billion to use to reshape teacher-evaluation systems, fix struggling schools, and establish data systems is discussed. The fairness of the judging strategy of the states' applications by the U.S. Education Department on criteria is discussed.

The article discusses a new policy in Arizona and Florida that no need of bachelor's degree to for being a teacher.