Antonio Ross, the district's new director of leadership and development, is Superintendent Devon Horton's former business partner, according to a report by a citizen who investigated Horton during his time as superintendent of Evanston/Skokie District 65.
Some employees of the largest school district in Texas already have been told their positions are being eliminated, and more cuts are expected to be made during the next week and also during the 2023-24 school year.
At noon on Monday, Houston Independent School District schools passed the deadline for voluntarily opting into Superintendent Mike Miles's New Education System (NES), a program that will reform and bring about wholesale changes for participating institutions.
The road to recovery remains rocky as the academic growth that most students made in the 2022-23 school year failed to match pre-pandemic norms, according to data on grades 3-8 released Tuesday.
Here's one of the top messages for K12 tech leadership in 2023-24 that bears repeating: You really do have a role to play in every aspect of your district's operations. For example, the cafeteria refrigerators—and the infrastructure that surrounds them—may need your attention.
Superintendent hires are continuing at a rapid clip so far this summer, while one leader has made an unexpected career move and yet another's tenure came to an abrupt end.
Oklahoma's far-right superintendent of public instruction thinks that schools should teach students about the Tulsa race massacre but not acknowledge that the white supremacist attack was about race.
Three of the state's largest school districts to start the year with new leaders. At Salem-Keizer, Andrea Castañeda plans to focus on community engagement, relationships with school board members, teaching, and school operations.
Lawmakers this year didn't approve extra money to help schools pay for raises despite having an unprecedented $32 billion surplus — even after Gov. Greg Abbott commissioned a task force last year to improve teacher pay and retention.
