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Personnel, HR, unions

What’s driving K12 staff layoffs? It’s much more than expiring ESSER funds

Matt Zalaznick -
Declining enrollment, failed levies and other financial pressures are forcing superintendents and their teams to make tough and unpopular spending decisions, including cutting school employees.

Sexist comments sink one superintendent during a week of high-profile hires

Matt Zalaznick -
Jerry Gibson is stepping down at Galveston ISD after calling women 'the worker bees'; meanwhile, several big districts have chosen their next superintendents.

Oakland Unified and striking teachers reach tentative agreement just days before graduation

Micah Ward -
The resolution came in the wee hours of Monday morning seven days before the district's first graduation ceremony, putting an end to a weeks-long strike that began on May 4th.

Many teachers no longer feel safe. Here’s what they want from their district leaders

Matt Zalaznick -
A survey of Denver's teachers found that smaller class sizes and expanded mental health services were preferred solutions over SROs and metal detectors. But teachers elsewhere want more police in their schools.

Morale champs: Did your state make one of these teacher top 10 lists?

Matt Zalaznick -
States were ranked on compensation, work benefits and environment, and student performance by Scholaroo, a college scholarship search website that regularly assesses the K12 landscape with surveys and a lot of number crunching.

3 districts, superintendents part ways as other leaders switch places

Matt Zalaznick -
Several districts and their superintendents have cut ties within the last week, including a former New Jersey leader who had been suspended since October.

Why these states rank as the 10 best for teachers in 2023

Matt Zalaznick -
You know what administrators want when picking a place to work but how would you determine the best states for teachers in 2023?

Teachers are committed to their jobs, yet why are they not recommending it to others?

Matt Zalaznick -
This sentiment is yet more evidence for administrators that excessive workloads and lack of resources are driving teachers to their breaking point, according to the annual “Voices from the Classroom” survey.

Are districts working hard enough to make teaching a more desirable job?

Matt Zalaznick -
When it comes to the nation's large and urban school systems, only about a third are pursuing "new or imaginative" strategies to transform teaching into a more appealing profession, says a new analysis

Quick, easy and free: A few ideas for jumpstarting teacher job satisfaction

Matt Zalaznick -
Low pay and heavy workloads may be the leading drags on teacher job satisfaction but principals, superintendents and other administrators can also help educators find ways to improve their outlooks by, for instance, sending a short letter of gratitude to a colleague.

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