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The DA 100 2025

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The innovative leaders—and leading innovators—who comprise District Administration’s second annual Top 100 influencers represent the most important voices in K12 education.
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How to get more out of your district’s strategic plan

Micah Ward -
New research reveals that strategic plans have little impact on student achievement. Here's how they can be improved.
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Districts are beginning to strain under big funding freeze

Micah Ward -
Districts and states are scrambling to stretch resources after President Trump halted distribution of more than $6 billion to schools.
College & Career Readiness

What Gen Z needs to know about non-college pathways

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Gen Z students feel well-informed about four-year degrees and post-high school workforce options but know less about other non-college pathways, a new survey finds.

Here’s one leader’s teacher incentive strategy you can replicate

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Career-connected learning: These states are leading the way

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How to support students’ well-being in the age of AI

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This new model could dramatically reduce teacher turnover

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Why this superintendent says she found a dream job

Matt Zalaznick -
You might see Superintendent Jeanne Siegenthaler shoveling snow, serving lunch or helping custodians clean her district's single building during the summer. She's also in charge of social media.

How to become a service-oriented superintendent

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Superintendent Rony Ortega describes central office's role in empowering principals and teachers this way: "We're no longer the compliance machine."

Districts big and small have hired these new leaders

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San Diego USD has dropped the interim tag from Superintendent Fabi Bagula's title, making her the permanent leader of California's second-largest school district.

See which leaders are on the move as summer begins

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West Contra Costa USD, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Keller ISD are among the systems that have recently named new superintendents.

How to stay close-knit in a growing district

Matt Zalaznick -
One way to give a larger district a small-town feel is customization in the form of extensive school choice, Superintendent Jean Luna-Vedder says.

These experienced superintendents have found new posts

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Brian Yearwood takes the helm of Kentucky's largest district while longtime North Carolina education leader Eric C. Bracy is named superintendent of Cumberland County Schools.
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Schools brace for wave of parents seeking opt-outs after Supreme Court ruling

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A sweeping U.S. Supreme Court interpretation recognizes a First Amendment right to opt out of classroom lessons that pose a "very real threat of undermining" sincerely held religious beliefs. The ruling has school districts and their attorneys scrambling to review curricula and refine protocols for excusing students from certain material.

CPS wants more students from all backgrounds to get the chance to skip a grade

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Historically, few students could jump ahead, and most who did were from schools with few low-income students. Chicago Public Schools is trying to make the policy more equitable.

100 years after the Scopes trial, Americans are still divided over what kids should learn

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A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school curricula still rage.

Oklahoma superintendent orders all districts to offer free meals, threatens sanctions

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ll public schools in Oklahoma must pay for free cafeteria meals for every student and exclude certain dyes and processed foods, the state’s top...
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