McKnight said the overall budget plan for the school system that has 160,554 students and expects another 2,000 next year, is $3.15 billion, an increase of $235.4 million or 8% over the current budget.
We combined our tri-county area's love of football with our passion for reading by hosting an event that brought the two together: Literacy Under the Lights.
Ongoing difficulties paying staff have forced Portland Public Schools Superintendent Xavier Botana to accelerate his departure from Maine's largest district.
Men have replaced two-thirds of the 94 women who have left superintendent positions at the nation's 500 largest school districts since the start of the pandemic, according to a new analysis.
If leading a school district is a 24-7 job, superintendent salaries—when broken down as hourly wages—are in the same ballpark as those of correctional officers.
Schools leaders are taking fresh precautions to prevent a "tripledemic" of COVID, flu and RSV from exploding when students and staff return from holiday gatherings.
80% of the superintendents surveyed rated their boards as "highly effective" or "effective," but also cited politically driven parents as the most difficult group to work with.
In an interview with GBH News, Superintendent Mary Skipper said she will make broad systemic fixes and correct the way Black and brown students are channeled into special education classrooms at higher rates than their white peers.
