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Florida education commissioner who battled mask mandates to resign next month

During Richard Corcoran's tenure, the state department of education clashed with districts in the state and with the U.S. Department of Education over restrictions on mask mandates in schools.

Leaders harness passions in K-12 schools, executive boardrooms

Mask mandate controversy, business growth strategy require the same leadership attributes.

Just how effective were masks in stopping COVID from spreading in schools?

With the masking decision in most parts of the county now left up to students and families, the CDC reports that masks cut COVID transmission rates by a significant amount.

K-12 groups blast loss of free meals while some praise spending package

Loss of free universal meal waivers will "devastate school meal programs" and is a "worst-case scenario" for children nationwide, anti-hunger advocates and education leaders say.

New federal spending proposal would allot $76.4 billion for education

The omnibus appropriations package includes $76.4 billion in funding for Education Department discretionary programs, an increase of $2.9 billion over the enacted FY 2021 appropriations amount

3 signs that it’s time for a districtwide communications overhaul

I knew that it was not enough to say, "Hey, we sent the message." Our responsibility is to know that the message is delivered and that it gets looked at.

5 keys to summer school’s role in helping students rebound from COVID

Summer school can be both the most entrepreneurial and most unequal season in education—a time when students can learn in more engaging ways or continue to face long-embedded inequities. 

How high achievers could pay the price for restrictions on teaching about race

State lawmakers scrambling to restrict the teaching about race and racism, LGBTQ issues and other topics risk seeing their schools lose advanced placement classes.

A look at how 3 innovative principals are softening the pandemic’s blows

School leaders have never had a greater opportunity to be superheroes than they do now as they steer the recovery from the pandemic and other turbulent events, Principal S. Kambar Khoshaba says.

6 ways to tell a compelling and effective COVID recovery story

This story does not aim to offer financial advice on how to invest your COVID relief money. The goal here is to help you tell compelling stories about how you are spending it.

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