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.”
Out of Oregon’s 197 school districts, 60 have superintendents in the first or second year of the job. Twenty-five districts will have new superintendents this year, including two of the state’s largest — Salem-Keizer and Hillsboro.
After New York City cleared the way for families to list their child’s gender as “X” instead of “M” or “F,” officials released statistics for the first time on how many families selected that designation for their child’s school records.
The Tennessee Education Association and five Tennessee public school educators behind the lawsuit believe the Tennessee policy that bans certain concepts from being included in curriculum, programs or supplemental materials complicates how students learn about "controversial" subjects such as slavery, the Holocaust, 9/11 and more.
Principal Darren Edgecome was arrested along with two assistant principals, a choir director and a school behavior therapist in connection with an incident involving a a 15-year-old girl.
"The closer we get to the new school year the more concerned we are about resignations and retirements," District Spokesperson Russell Bruhn said in an email to FLORIDA TODAY.
“This case is about a thin-skinned high school principal defying the First Amendment and suspending a student for lampooning the principal on the student’s Instagram page even though the posts caused no disruption at school,” lawsuit says.
Students and staff in the East Ramapo Central School District cannot drink the tap water in any of the public school buildings. The chronic state of disrepair has prompted calls for a takeover of the school system.
Schools are struggling to fill all their teaching jobs for the fall. Teacher morale is low. And, this summer, about one-sixth of the nation’s teachers are working in non-school jobs. It’s no wonder there’s broad support for raising teacher pay.
For Disability Pride Month, here are some key facts about public school students with disabilities, based on the latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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