LAUSD schools chief Austin Beutner is working out a plan to radically reshape the nation's second-largest school district by greatly shrinking the central bureaucracy and moving decision-making closer to schools. He proposes dividing the school system into 32 neighborhood “networks.”
A grassroots group of parents has likely overturned a massive school voucher expansion supported by the state's Republican establishment, as the "no" vote on Proposition 305 had a wide lead in early returns.
Last month, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring the Department of Education to publish by December 2019 an annual report on how much each parent-teacher association or parent association is raising. The bill requires the department to post the report on its website, deliver it to the council's speaker and provide demographic information at each PTA's school.
The Ocala School District is enforcing a new policy as part of increased security measures following the April 20 shooting incident at Forest High School. Its nearly 6,000 teachers, staff members and administrators are already required to wear a visible ID. And now high school students will be required to as well.

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