The North County School District will start off the 2019 school year with Nicholle Ruess as the new superintendent, replacing Yancy Poorman, who is retiring. Ruess is currently the assistant superintendent for teaching, learning and student services at the Festus R-VI School District. The North County School District will start off the 2019 school year […]

Initially billed as a cost-cutting measure, the New Jersey superintendent salary cap failed to save money and instead resulted in a higher probability that superintendents across the state would quit, according to new research from Rutgers University. Initially billed as a cost-cutting measure, the New Jersey superintendent salary cap failed to save money and instead […]

Cody Hirschi, currently the superintendent of the Mid-Buchanan School District, has been named to head up the Reeds Spring School District in Missouri. He has also previously served as superintendent of the Pettis County School District. The Reeds Spring School District has hired Dr. Cody Hirschi to be its next superintendent. School board members voted […]

Rosemead School District’s new superintendent is Alejandro Ruvalcaba. He most recently served as assistant superintendent in charge of human resources at the Upland USD. Ruvalcaba replaces superintendent Amy Enomoto-Perez, who had been with the district since 1981 and served as superintendent since 1999. After nearly six months of searching, the Rosemead School District board has […]

The millennial generation has arrived in school board politics. In Prince George’s County’s school system in Maryland, they once again make up a majority of elected board members with five of nine elected members in their 20s. The millennial generation has arrived in school board politics. Maybe not in great numbers, and not everywhere. But […]

Lawmakers approved six recommendations at their latest meeting, including further studying the development of a statewide system for mental health screening of school children as well as requiring K12 civic responsibility education. After months of meeting across the state, the House Select Committee on School Safety met for the final time Thursday to approve another […]

Nearpod, an instructional technology company, has teamed up with Agora Cyber Charter School to deploy the company’s more than 6,500 lessons with K12 teachers across Pennsylvania. The charter school provides full-time, tuition-free, public schooling for students through online instruction provided by teachers who lead classes remotely. Nearpod, the instructional technology partner helping districts and schools […]

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a public residential and online high school, has received $2 million in donations to its foundation to create The Ryden Program for Innovation and Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The program will combine an artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum with a fabrication space. The North Carolina School of Science […]