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The policy also states that putting up displays about “controversial topics” isn’t as appropriate as other approaches and that the district can decide what messages and content can be communicated through signs and postings.

The notice stated the district’s liability coverage would expire June 30, if the school district maintained a policy allowing anonymous school employees to carry district issued guns.

In doing so, Colorado’s largest school district has joined a handful of others across the United States in rolling back policies enacted amid the national racial reckoning that occurred three years ago after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

Date & Time: Wednesday, July 19 at 2 pm ET <br> </br> To address national teacher shortages, many state policymakers are proposing a variety of long-term solutions, including increased salaries, alternative routes to teacher preparation or streamlining training and certification requirements. But at the school and district level, imminent teacher vacancies necessitate more urgent action. How will you respond to ensure students maintain continuity of learning?

Paramount to the plan is a 25% reduction of statewide standards compared to what is currently in place. Only a third of the standards that will remain have been identified as “essential.”

A new analysis by Penn State’s Center for Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis shows that the rate of teacher attrition in Pennsylvania grew faster in the 2022-23 school year and hit its highest point in a decade of tracking.