"Many districts throughout the state will be passing deficit budgets, because they are facing the same challenges," said Austin ISD CFO Ed Ramos. "Teachers are leaving the profession. Employees are making the decision whether or not to stay in their districts."
Six Florida students, their parents and two authors sued Lake County Schools, which barred students who are in kindergarten through third grade from accessing “And Tango Makes Three,” a children’s book about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin together.
After decades of multidisciplinary research, the scientific community has achieved consensus—children need systematic phonics instruction to crack the code and learn how to read.
On Wednesday, 20 of those familiar faces walked through her door at Sabin Elementary School in Northeast Portland. Clad in caps and gowns, her 2010-11 kindergarteners are now graduating from high school. And before they go off into their post-graduate world, the students wanted to thank one of their first and most formative teachers.
An Oklahoma school board on Monday approved what would be the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious school despite concerns over the decision’s constitutionality from state officials and advocacy groups.
Among the rather dim conclusions drawn from the report are the pandemic's widespread impact on teacher shortages in 2020-21 along with districts' difficulties in hiring mental health support staff.
When I joined Fort Worth ISD as its new chief academic officer in 2019, we needed to create a literacy framework and implement new curriculum and products to support it.
Kindergarten counts continue to dwindle in many states—evidence of falling birth rates and an ever-growing array of options luring parents away from traditional public schools.
Yoshira Escamilla was student-teaching at McNary Heights Elementary School in Umatilla when she was asked to take over a kindergarten classroom in the middle of the school year.
"The combined organization will harness the collective power of instruction and research-based insights to support educators in their efforts to drive better outcomes for students," the companies say in a news release.
