Admin & Management

How far is your state from reaching racial equality in education?

Analysts compared the difference between white and black Americans with high school and college degrees, and their test scores and graduation rates to determine levels of racial equality in education.

3 most popular school ventilation improvements are masking disparities

There are steps underresourced district leaders can take–and steps they can urge local officials to take–to get the needed HVAC improvements made.

Feds lay out 5-point plan to help districts find more teachers

The stats contributing to teacher shortages are glaring: the average teacher salary is so low in 38 states that even some mid-career educators qualify for government benefits based on income.

Are we making progress on closing the superintendency gender gap?

The fact that more women have reached the to post in recent years does not tell the whole story as "we are still grossly underrepresented in this role," says one superintendent.

Bipartisan boost: How Congress promises to cooperate on K-12 recovery

Leaders of a newly launched Public Schools Caucus in Congress will mount a bipartisan effort to build on the educational innovations of the pandemic era.

Ohio superintendent indicted on allegations of theft and securing work for his son

An Ohio superintendent, Jude Meyers, faces more than a dozen criminal charges from his time leading the Gallia County Local School District, state auditor Keith Faber announced Monday.

Meet the team of K-12 leaders who help guide schools after each shooting

Every time there is another school shooting, administrators whose buildings have suffered past attacks are forced to relive the worst day of their lives. For George Roberts, that was the first day of school in August 2012.

Enrollment rankings: A look at the 2030 forecast for all 50 states

The first year of COVID wiped out a decade of enrollment growth in the nation's public schools, according to the first nationwide tabulation of the pandemic's impacts on attendance.

Experts counsel urgency, not panic, in hitting ESSER spending deadlines

Because of postponed assessments, some schools are only now recognizing the full scope of the learning loss but they have time to adjust acceleration efforts.

How many of your teachers want to quit? Depends what state you’re in

A large majority of teachers in one western state say they would quit if they could. But elsewhere, a much smaller percentage of educators are thinking about leaving the profession.

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