"We've had situations where people have come in and taken the job we think they are going to be OK and they are gone within a week of school starting. So there's a lot of scrambling," superintendent says.
The Washington Central Unified Union School District required masks in all indoor spaces starting March 28. Schools needed to "normalize masking in times of high viral activity," administrators said.
A nurse posted inappropriate comments in a Facebook group, including private and personal details about a specific student, Hartford Public Schools superintendent says.
Though many schools have held in-person instruction during most of 2021-22, one set of widely used assessments shows student performance in year two of the pandemic is lower than during the first year.
The Biden Administration—calling teacher shortages one of education's most "critical challenges"—is urging district leaders, higher education and states to collaborate to move more student-teachers into classrooms to speed K-12's recovery from the pandemic.
Discussions are underway about how to make up the 14 missed school days during the strike, whether by adding days to the school calendar or lengthening the school day, or some combination of both.
Go back in time with us for a moment. At the end of 2020-21, the big instructional challenge facing schools seemed obvious: help students rebound academically as quickly as possible.
A growing lack of confidence in K-12 principals—mainly among Republican voters—may only be the tip of the iceberg as yet more evidence of wider dissatisfaction with U.S. schools emerged Wednesday.
