A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.

One local school is taking action to help teachers with the amount of stress that a school day can bring. Less than two years ago, Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School in Buncombe County, North Carolina, made a space for teachers to ease their minds. Hence, the "Serenity Room" was born. Another one is set to open inside Valley Springs Middle School next week.

Last July, the McConaugheys co-founded the Greenlights Grant Initiative in a bid to improve school safety by providing school districts with free grant writing services and information on grants, aimed at boosting mental health and security resources in schools.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict students' use of smartphones on campus. And the South Carolina State Board of Education is expected to approve guidelines Tuesday on limiting student phone access.

Georgia's Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods now says school districts may teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after all, now that Georgia's attorney general said the state's law against teaching divisive racial concepts specifically exempts such college-level courses.

One prominent educator told ABC that "public education is on life support." Another said the greatest current education challenge is the need for it to "reset," which the educator projected could take five to 10 years to achieve.

The 183,000-student Gwinnett County district says the state Department of Education's refusal to approve the course means its students would be cheated out of credit for the difficulty of the work.

It's the second time in a year public school advocates have had to carry out a signature-gathering effort to try to reverse a legislative measure to use public money for private school tuition.