Underprepared teachers have been tied to student learning losses. But amid a teacher shortage crisis, school leaders fear the restrictions will lead to fewer instructors in their classrooms.

After a man threatened an elementary school in her district, Assemblymember Darshana Patel wants to close a loophole in the law that makes it harder to prosecute threats against places than individuals.

Some schools are seeing a significant difference between the number of students they count in their own enrollment data and the “full-time equivalent” data that the state uses to calculate the number of students a school has.

Two women share their journeys to the superintendency and the roadblocks aspiring female leaders should expect—and how to overcome them.