Looking for an alternative, the school district in Louisville, Ky., turned to a software program—leading to chaos. It's one of many districts struggling to get students to class.
"We're excited and maybe a little bit nervous," Hardin County Schools Superintendent Teresa Morgan says as she and her team get ready to make room for an influx of 24,000 to 37,000 residents over the next decade.
District leaders continue to tackle chronic absenteeism even after the pandemic. But they can't do it alone. They need parents to understand the importance of their child's attendance.
Mason City Community Schools removed the books from grade 7-12 libraries, with an administrator saying that the size of its collection was too large for staff to read every title.
Saturn's shared calendar purports to help high school students organize their academic, extracurricular and social lives. But school districts say it may put personal information at risk.
Turner has four months left as mayor, and said he assumed he would not have to wage anymore political battles and speak out. But he said he owes it to his parents to speak against changes happening in HISD.
More frequent testing that provides quicker results to students and teachers is part of a push toward new methods for evaluating progress instead of backloading assessments each spring.
Acting superintendent Michele Mitchell has been appointed the full-time superintendent of Newport News Public Schools in Virginia and Raúl Peña will lead Hutto ISD in Texas.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters has launched a very public campaign of criticism against Tulsa Public Schools and Superintendent Deborah Gist, threatening the district's accreditation and comparing Tulsa public schools to a bus that Gist is driving off the road into a tree.
