Efforts to remove books from schools may signal two outcomes: a slide into a new era of intolerance or an explosion of student interest in the very books being challenged.
More than 10,000 people have signed a student-led petition to close all schools in surrounding Oakland County, Michigan, through winter break in the wake of the Oxford High School tragedy.
Parents in Missouri are now being encouraged to report school districts that are maintaining mask mandates, quarantines and other COVID-prevention policies to state authorities.
Ongoing professional development and family outreach are just two signs of how the challenges of COVID have heightened the influence of K-12 ed-tech leaders and their teams.
Even though 300-plus Petersburg City Public Schools students didn't show up for class last school year, the Virginia district's enrollment is now higher than it was in 2019.