The post featured a district employee posing in front of what appears to be a large mirror in a classroom with the caption "Every day is another opportunity to force kids in public schools to be gay."
State charter schools still lag in enrollment of low-income students, English language learners and special education students—demographics known to need additional resources to achieve the measures emphasized by the state’s ratings system.
Some Florida lawmakers are looking at nixing decades-old school regulations after the passage of HB 1, which expanded the state’s school voucher programs, invalidating the need for some of Florida’s accountability laws, according to conservative lawmakers.
While CFOs and federal programs directors have done a good job guiding districts through the last three years of budget tailoring, now it's time for superintendents, cabinet members and board members to take a longer-term, strategic approach to ensure that only the most effective strategies—those with the strongest (LOI)—are retained as resiliency is drained from the system.
This fall in Tucson, teacher shortages and superintendent longevity were top of mind but so were issues—such as test scores—that haven't been getting as much attention as of late.
Edtech's biggest value proposition? It enables teachers to adapt their approaches to instruction, practice and assessment to meet the dynamically changing needs of each student at different places along their learning journey.
Whether it's negative self-perceptions about their own identity and capability in math or an intimidating shadow cast by "star" math students at school, it's common for students to doubt whether they belong in math class, let alone believe they can be successful in it.
Schools in Andover will be closed again on Tuesday, November 14. It will be the third day the approximately 5,600 students in the district will miss classes.
The state-appointed leaders of Houston's public school system want Houston ISD to become a so-called "District of Innovation," which allows exemptions from a long list of state laws. They argue the exemptions will increase flexibility; critics say the changes will hurt, not help.
