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Longtime school superintendent Randall Collins, Executive Director of the District Administration Leadership Institute, shares professional insights on the Chicago teacher strike with Odvard Egil Dyrli, District Administration’s executive editor.

My daughter is 3 and tells me she wants to be a doctor. ... I realize that it’s a long road between preschool and med school. But I love the idea of her professional achievements surpassing mine and my husband’s (and having a doctor in the family in my golden years).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have made school districts responsible for funding the placement of special education students in the private school of their family’s choice.

Call it a promise unkept.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act showed promise to assist education, but some of its results have yet to be realized.

In five years, pension contributions for area school districts are projected to increase by $172.9 million.

Idaho ranks second-worst in the nation for the amount of money it spends per pupil, the U.S. Census Bureau said.