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Louisiana lawmakers intend to give K-12 public school teachers a $1,000 pay raise next year, more than double the amount proposed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
The South Florida superintendent overseeing Broward County schools has offered to resign amid continuing criticism over the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a perjury charge from a statewide grand jury.
Dan Domenech, the executive director of the School Superintendents Association, said that the pandemic was causing an unusual amount of turnover in superintendent positions, as people retire, resign or, in some cases, have been fired after clashes with school board members over reopening schools.
The case, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L, centers around a Pennsylvania high school student’s 2017 Snapchat post expressing frustration because she didn’t make the varsity cheerleading squad.
Even as officials celebrated the reopening of all CPS high schools last week, the district saw low attendance for both in-person and remote learners a year into the pandemic.
A Missouri State University survey says 1 in 10 public school teachers have had enough. They plan to call it quits this year.
All schools will soon have at least one full-time social worker or a school-based mental health clinic, according to the plan.
The founder of a prominent New York City charter school network pilfered more than $200,000 from its accounts so he could get a better deal on a $2.37 million Manhattan apartment, federal prosecutors said.
Instead of kicking students out of school, the district plans to use digital tools that have become part of school life during the pandemic to create in-school “Reset Centers” where students can Zoom into classes and access mental health professionals and teletherapy.
A few years ago, thousands of high school principals across the country received a variation of the same email from a parent asking for “any information you can provide about enrolling.”
In a letter to parents, Centner Academy recommended that all faculty and staff "hold off" on getting the shot until there "is further research available on whether this experimental drug is impacting unvaccinated individuals".
A new study in Minnesota documents what happened to 18,000 students in grades 5 through 11 after four school districts postponed the start of the school day by 20 to 65 minutes.
Making community college tuition-free has “no political downside.” Free four-year degrees are a tougher political sell.
The Ohio State Board of Education is no longer accepting verbal comments or criticisms at meetings regarding its resolution to condemn racism, according to a lawsuit filed last week by Cincinnati lawyer Curt Hartman.
The school district confirmed the picture is authentic, calling it a "staged photo." But the superintendent would not confirm the family's account of events.
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