Members of the class of 2023 are facing a challenge not shared by younger students–they have less time to bounce back academically before they graduate.
Denver's court-mandated bilingual education for Spanish-speaking students is facing significant threats because of declining enrollment and school closures.
Teachers across the city have been notified they will lose their positions at their current schools but remain on the education department's payroll and enter a pool of potential hires for schools seeking staff.
$3.56 billion: That's what ransomware attacks cost U.S. schools and colleges–in downtime alone–in 2021. Administrators also faced additional "astronomical recovery costs" to restore computers, recover data, and fortify their systems against future attacks, a new report says.
Districts must take action with a three-pronged approach by identifying ways to improve service delivery, understanding where to cut operating costs, and engaging stakeholders regularly.
Mayor Eric Adams' proposal showed a $1 billion drop for the education department, to just under $31 billion – largely because federal coronavirus relief is beginning to dry up.
The first year of COVID wiped out a decade of enrollment growth in the nation's public schools, according to the first nationwide tabulation of the pandemic's impacts on attendance.
