New York state is now reaching out to 550,000 commercial driver's license holders in efforts to recruit them as school bus drivers while DMV speeds up the testing process.
Traditional ways of disciplining students - including corporal punishment - must be examined and revised in order to effect lasting changes in behavior.
In 2019, a Vermont student with a disability that causes bone pain was forcefully subdued by a school resource officer after educators suspected, erroneously, that the 17-year-old had a vape.
Letters to five states signal to other states and districts that ED is taking the position that prohibitions on universal masking violate the rights of some students with 504 plans or IEPs under IDEA and that schools had better accommodate them.
Alachua County Superintendent Carlee Simon says she and administrators in other school systems are gearing up to take legal action after the state docked the salaries of school board members.
The districts require students and staff to wear masks without letting parents opt out, which the state says is in violation of an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts mask mandates in schools.
School administrators are issuing fewer out-of-school suspensions, but Black students and students with disabilities remain more likely to get suspended.
Arizona governor threatens to withhold funding, Florida state education officials vow to investigate and one Texas district adds masks to its dress code to sidestep a ban.
The Eagle County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Sunday that more officers will appear at Eagle County School District schools Monday "due to the tensions in the community, related to the new mask guidelines."
