High COVID positivity rates in its high school and in a Massachusetts community drove Ashland Public Schools leaders to seek the state's help to expand testing.
Wide-scale, school-site COVID testing of students and staff appears to be a key part of Joe Biden's hope of reopening classrooms within the first 100 days of his presidency.
The admission marks the first acknowledgement from the head of a major school system that the coronavirus vaccine is likely headed to the list of required school immunizations.
COVD pandemic redoubles superintendents' commitment to building student voice to work on antiracism, gender equity, college application and other issues.
Attack on Congress by pro-Trump rioters offers superintendents an opportunity to encourage and empower students to express their own voices more productively.
Leaders from across the education system are reacting with horror to the attack by followers of outgoing President Donald Trump on the U.S. Capitol building.
