"We don't talk about the risk of heat until it hits us," Shannon McCann, a special education teacher in Federal Way, WA, told The Seattle Times. "And it gets harder in a high-poverty community when people don't have a way to escape heat even after school."
Amazing things happen in the lives of students when families and educators join forces, says Superintendent Marvin Connelly Jr. of Cumberland County Schools.
The Iowa state board that disciplines teachers and school administrators found the allegations against Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Paul Gausman by his previous employer credible enough on Wednesday that it referred them for a hearing with an administrative law judge.
Takeovers have had limited success in improving student performance. Opponents say their real purpose is to undermine the power of Black and Hispanic communities.
"The current environment is very tumultuous for educators, particularly superintendents," said Sharon Contreras, former superintendent at Guilford County Schools. "It is tumultuous and stressful. I think the stress sometimes impedes innovation, and steals the joy that many once had in the profession."
Orange County Schools has suddenly parted ways with Monique Felder, who had been the North Carolina district's superintendent since late 2019. Elsewhere, hiring slowed down after months of heavy activity at the top of K12.
Milford School District says it scratched the practice from student handbook to "align the codes between the elementary and secondary levels as well as to streamline the content and align the terms."
Three months into its post-collegiate life, the future of the vacated Iowa Wesleyan University campus is starting to take shape, with the Mount Pleasant Community School District offering to buy a portion of the 60-acre property for $1.25 million.
A new law will require books and other materials to be rated and reviewed by vendors for sexual content before they can be sold to school libraries. Texas lawmakers warned A Midsummer Night's Dream, Of Mice and Men, The Canterbury Tales, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the Bible and other classic works of literature could be restricted.
