DA Staff

SCOTUS appears ready to uphold students’ free-speech rights outside the schoolhouse gate

The case, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L, centers around a Pennsylvania high school student’s 2017 Snapchat post expressing frustration because she didn’t make the varsity cheerleading squad.

After this pandemic year, superintendents across the country are leaving their jobs (subscription)

Dan Domenech, the executive director of the School Superintendents Association, said that the pandemic was causing an unusual amount of turnover in superintendent positions, as people retire, resign or, in some cases, have been fired after clashes with school board members over reopening schools.

1 in 5 Chicago high school students absent from class

Even as officials celebrated the reopening of all CPS high schools last week, the district saw low attendance for both in-person and remote learners a year into the pandemic.

Former White House advisor is charged with stealing from NY charter school

The founder of a prominent New York City charter school network pilfered more than $200,000 from its accounts so he could get a better deal on a $2.37 million Manhattan apartment, federal prosecutors said.

Addressing mental health: NYC to screen students at all schools, add 500 social workers

All schools will soon have at least one full-time social worker or a school-based mental health clinic, according to the plan.

Survey: Pandemic stress is the last straw for 10% of Missouri teachers

A Missouri State University survey says 1 in 10 public school teachers have had enough. They plan to call it quits this year.

Join DA’s interactive virtual roundtable on leveraging digitization

The session on April 29 at 2 p.m. ET will focus on how their schools can reimagine the way they safely deliver learning, provide student services, support teachers, and facilitate improved community engagement.

Miami private school says it won’t employ vaccinated teachers

In a letter to parents, Centner Academy recommended that all faculty and staff "hold off" on getting the shot until there "is further research available on whether this experimental drug is impacting unvaccinated individuals".

Principals show bias in responses to Black parents, new study finds

A few years ago, thousands of high school principals across the country received a variation of the same email from a parent asking for “any information you can provide about enrolling.”

Dallas ISD moves toward historic end to most suspensions

Instead of kicking students out of school, the district plans to use digital tools that have become part of school life during the pandemic to create in-school “Reset Centers” where students can Zoom into classes and access mental health professionals and teletherapy.

Ohio Board of Education accused of limiting comments about race curriculum

The Ohio State Board of Education is no longer accepting verbal comments or criticisms at meetings regarding its resolution to condemn racism, according to a lawsuit filed last week by Cincinnati lawyer Curt Hartman.

Biden wants to make community college free. Can progressives push him further?

Making community college tuition-free has “no political downside.” Free four-year degrees are a tougher political sell.

Later school start time gave small boost to grades but big boost to sleep, new study finds

A new study in Minnesota documents what happened to 18,000 students in grades 5 through 11 after four school districts postponed the start of the school day by 20 to 65 minutes.

Test questions copied from previous years for some N.Y. ELA exams

In some cases, the New York State Education Department copied previous year's questions for the 2021 ELA exams.

‘Sharp one-year decline’ in California K-12 enrollment amid pandemic

The California Department of Education data shows that the number of students at K-12 schools dropped by more than 160,000 this academic year, most of them at the K-6 level, to a total of 6 million.