The Des Moines Register obtained a list of 374 books that the Urbandale Community School District believes could violate Senate File 496, which, among other changes, requires teachers and administrators to review their libraries and classrooms for books that depict sex acts and prohibits them from buying them in the first place.
During the Seattle area’s May heat wave, teachers grabbed ice pops and sprayed students’ flushed necks with water, urging them to move in front of a fan. Some found refuge under a shady tree outside, and some kids got sick and went home.
The top issues identified by parents included safety concerns, academic challenges, bullying, ongoing pandemic-related social challenges and mental health challenges.
By the time Aaliyah Ibarra started second grade, her family had moved five times in four years in search of stable housing. As she was about to start a new school, her mother, Bridget Ibarra, saw how much it was affecting her education.
For many families, the learning loss and emotional trauma caused by remote learning linger, a painful reminder of what is now widely considered one of the biggest policy mistakes of the pandemic.
Mallory Grossman was a sixth-grade student at Copeland Middle School. Her parents say she took her own life after she was bullied online by other students.
The Michigan Department of Education already recruits and certifies more than 1,000 educators a year from other states, said State Superintendent Michael Rice, but this will allow the teachers to integrate into classrooms more quickly. It will “benefit districts across the state and particularly those in communities close to other states,” he said.
With more job openings in the trades and more questions around the value of a four-year college degree, high schools are turning their attention back to equipping the next generation with hands-on technical skills.
“There are certain requirements that and certifications that are required to be able to kind of get into those roles and it's very difficult to find instructors," Chris Christoff, a Chester County School District spokesman, said. "We've provided incentives, sign-on bonuses. We had teacher raises.”
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