Kurt Dennis, longtime principal at McAuliffe International School at Denver Public Schools, was fired last week after he allegedly broke student privacy laws. Now, the community is rallying for his reinstatement.
When Summer Schultz, the former superintendent of the Dell Rapids School District left and accepted the role of superintendent in Brookings, it set off a chain reaction of superintendents and administrators shuffling around school districts.
Superintendent Mike Miles says principals s at Jack Yates, Worthing, and Sharpstown high schools will continue to be employed by HISD but they will not be transferred to different principal positions.
ChatGPT has heightened concerns about cheating in K12 and now, the question of whether the AI tool has harmed its own customers appears to be at the center of a new federal investigation.
The Waukesha School Board voted 9-0 to fire Melissa Tempel because administrators believe her tweet criticizing the decision to ban the Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song violated district policy.
The bill also requires schools to inform parents if their child begins identifying as a different gender—a measure that was already included in the legislature's proposed Parents' Bill of Rights. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed that last week, though an override is likely by the Republican supermajority.
Turnover has risen from around 14% to 17% since the beginning of the pandemic and neither test scores nor safety appear to be among the top five reasons for K12 leaders' growing anxiety.
The base salary on the three three-year contract dropped from $360,000 to $350,000 per year with a $10,000 bonus year to year if the superintendent raises the district from a "B" to an "A" school district and maintains it.
"Reading this report and seeing these numbers can be difficult, but that is nothing in comparison with the emotional difficulty these numbers represent in the lived experiences of students and staff," DPI Superintendent Jill Underly said in a statement.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut rank among the best states for students with regard to postsecondary education and employment. But which states could use improvement?
