Many schools are enforcing strict policies that keep students from checking their smartphone throughout the entire school day. This superintendent is doing it a little differently.
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) released its attendance report for the school year 2023-2024. Officials said the report shows the lowest chronic absenteeism and truancy rates for D.C. students since returning to classrooms following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Declining enrollment, the end of pandemic relief grants and state budget uncertainty have combined to put hundreds of California school districts in precarious financial straits. For some districts, closing schools may be the only way to avoid the state seizing control of operations.
State Schools Superintendent Ryan Walters announced the creation of the Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism. The new office within the state Department of Education will be charged with ensuring parents, teachers and students can practice their religion and display their patriotism freely.
For the 2024-25 school year, 72% of public schools with special education teacher vacancies reported they'd "experienced difficulty" filling the positions, according to the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics.
The director of Fisher Technologies Inc. specializes in K12 educational technology conferences and event presentation services in addition to on-site and online professional development.
Decisions about whether students should be allowed to leave school to attend off-campus religious instruction should be left to each of Ohio’s 600 local school districts, argued opponents of an Ohio House bill that would mandate it.
For district leaders, the implications are clear: remain engaged with your communities, foster transparency in decision-making and align initiatives with public values.
A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms is "unconstitutional on its face," a federal judge ruled, ordering state education officials not to take steps to enforce it and to notify all local school boards in the state of his decision.
