Some in the Democrat-majority community believe the decision is just another attempt by Republican leaders to regain control following election failures and COVID restrictions.
Conservative Republicans in Kansas hoping to earmark state education dollars for helping parents pay for private schooling are struggling to win over enough rural and moderate GOP colleagues to get a law enacted.
Inclusivity and civil rights underpin a new Bill of Rights for Students and Parents that Democrats have drawn up to counter Republican efforts to influence classroom instruction.
For the sixth time in 11 years of collecting such data, the median salary of female superintendents slightly surpassed that of their male counterparts at $146,031.
Mississippi Senate leaders are pushing to rewrite the state's education budget formula, which has only fully funded public schools twice since it was put into law in 1997.
A Parents Bill of Rights just introduced by House Republicans seeks to codify many freedoms that families already enjoy when it comes to their schools but could also whittle away at superintendents' decision-making power.
"I'm talking to legislators, and what they're saying is that the state intends to take over the district, replacing the entire board and replacing the superintendent," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a City Council meeting Wednesday morning. "I find that totally alarming."
Cybercriminals are hungry for students' personal identity information and their blank credit history, and their tactics to retrieve such information are becoming increasingly stealthy.
When Superintendent Scott Muri took the helm at Ector County ISD in 2019, it had an 18% teacher vacancy rate and was one of the lowest-performing districts in the state. Now, its teachers can make up to $100,000 a year.
