Oklahoma City Public Schools and the Washoe County School District install new leaders while Cincinnati Public Schools' superintendent steps down after no-confidence votes.
Even though most summer school programs offered in 2023 were free, less than half of eligible students showed up, says the latest research from the RAND Corporation.
Imagine if we taught math by mandating just a single semester-long course in high school. Or if we taught science by occasionally mentioning it in history classes. Yet, that's exactly how financial literacy is taught in US schools—if it's taught at all.
The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous Shenandoah County board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.
District officials have not said which schools will be on the chopping block—a list is expected to be released in June—but they say K-5 students would be better accommodated if the district downsized to 50 elementary schools.
Public school district leaders from New York City, Berkeley, Calif., and Montgomery County, Md., forcefully defended their actions under Republican attacks like those that had tripped up university presidents.
"When you have a strong sense of confidence in yourself and where you came from, it helps you understand where you’re going," says Farid Johnson, New York's 2024 principal of the year.
When Kevin Hosbond was teaching English and coaching speech in the rural southeast Iowa school district of Fairfield, his position was on the chopping block three separate times. Each time, students and parents convinced the school board to save his position.
