Communication and connectedness will be the guiding lights as administrators and their teams work to improve school climate in 2024, says one group of K12 thought leaders.
"When schools close or evacuate for a communicated threat that isn't credible, the perpetrators get exactly what they want," said Mo Canady, executive director for the National Association of School Resource Officers.
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Kelly Staley first learned about the lawsuit from a reporter. A parent was suing her, the superintendent of the Chico Unified School District, over an alleged "parental secrecy" policy, the reporter said, claiming a school counselor had encouraged her fifth-grader to adopt a new gender and that the school had withheld that information.
Tweens, teens and their parents have mixed reviews of the new restrictions amid concerns about the effects on safety. Advocates cite benefits on young people's academic achievement and mental health.
They’re demanding answers to questions about Oklahoma's Teacher Sign-On Bonus program and what Walters is doing to help districts where many students are not performing at grade level.
The education aspirations of first-generation male students declined the most, a recent survey found. Across the board, 70% of students said they were continuing their education in the fall of 2022, a 5% drop from previous years.
Just a couple dozen students attend the new Career and Technical Education Center, deterred in part by the travel across the city. But another 200 students take classes online, and leaders are confident the program's popularity will grow.
