Since 2021, legislators in Missouri’s General Assembly have introduced 31 bills aimed at reforming the education system, the most from any one state. Only one, Senate Bill 775, which restricts access to “sexually explicit materials” in libraries, was passed into law.
"If somebody comes in that has a spill or something has happened to their clothes, we are able to wash and dry them right there and get them back to the student," said Sara Shevchuk, principal of Truman Elementary. "The student just feels good about themselves. They get to go home with clean clothes."
A no-confidence vote may have no official bearing on an administrator's job, of course. But leaders across the country are seeing heightened hostility from teachers unions and parents.
Newly hired Vito Perrone's follow-up email contained an alleged "microaggression" that offended his new bosses on the Easthampton Public Schools board, which rescinded his appointment.
A rising star in Massachusetts joined the list of the recently ousted superintendents during yet another week of continued conflict between K12 leaders and boards of education, mayors and other officials.
Superintendent Steven Connolly of MSAD 75 in Maine is stepping down, citing "divisions that exist based on political, personal, and ideological beliefs."
Two Fairfax County Public Schools employees and a third man are accused in a scheme to steal as many as 35,000 school laptops worth more than $2 million, police said.
Parents in Missouri are now being encouraged to report school districts that are maintaining mask mandates, quarantines and other COVID-prevention policies to state authorities.
