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School leaders are not rushing to impose districtwide mask mandates or close schools to combat the omicron-driven resurgence of COVID.
The challenges of COVID may not only lead to increased principal turnover. They may also have soured some educators on the idea of moving up the K-12 ladder.
What K-12 leaders need to know about a new generation of parents promoting both conservative and liberal causes.
Schools in Arizona must now let students take a one- to two-minute moment of silence at the beginning of each school day. Whether they meditate, pray, or run through test questions in their head is up to them.
University leaders trying to build back the pipeline of educators say changes to systems and support are needed.
Even stricter measures have surfaced, including a Louisiana bill that would prevent educators from discussing sexual orientation through eighth grade, and a Tennesse proposal to bar instructional materials that "normalize" LGTBQ lifestyles.
Masks will once again be required in Philadelphia's schools as other large districts are also seeing an increase in COVID cases. Still, K-12 leaders elsewhere are dropping their mask mandates.
The average K-12 student accessed 74 different ed-tech tools in the first half of the 2021-22 school year while the average teacher used 86, according to LearnPlatform.
"School closures may ultimately prove to be the most costly policy decision of the pandemic era." That's the somber conclusion made by researchers taking a fresh look at the economic and other impacts of COVID.
Female superintendents and superintendents of districts serving mostly students of color have been disproportionately impacted by turnover since the beginning of the pandemic though all leaders are reporting heavier workloads.
Chicopee Superintendent Lynn Clark has been arrested by the FBI after an investigation into threatening messages she allegedly sent to someone applying to be the town's police chief
Do a lot of students in your schools care about state-level education policy? Well, there is a group of teens in Kentucky who care quite a lot and are no longer shy about getting involved.