What has slipped through the cracks during many school board meetings is that improving school safety does not require districts and schools to spend enormous sums to provide a safer and more orderly learning environment.
The Tennessee district's school board voted to hire Interim superintendent Joris Ray permanently to the post. He came to the Shelby County district following the resignation of former superintendent Dorsey Hopso.
Cory LeClair, who has worked with SAU 6 for the past nine years, has been hired to serve as superintendent for the Plainfield and Cornish school districts. He replaces Frank Perotti, who has been hired as superintendent in Croydon.
Brenda Cassellius has been named as the new superintendent of Boston Public Schools. She has served as the Minnesota commissioner of education from 2011 through an administration change earlier this year.
Rural superintendents could soon have a more compelling pitch for job candidates who are on the fence: up to $25,000 in student loan forgiveness for teachers who take hard-to-fill positions in remote districts.
New Energy Equity, Region Five Development Commission and Rural Renewable Energy Alliance have partnered to develop six solar arrays for Pine River-Backus and Pequot Lakes school districts, and Central Lakes College. These three projects will reduce each school's carbon footprint by 1,420 metric tons of C02.
Computer technology has had a major impact on education over the years, but K-12 hasn't completely abandoned paper and textbooks. The much anticipated ed tech transformation has not quite come to pass. Here are 11 barriers to technology integration in public education.
The California Department of Education is calling for schools to have half of all K-12 students on track for proficiency in two languages by the end of the next decade. But districts are facing another hurdle: A report shows that the number of teachers with bilingual certifications has decreased from about 1,500 annually in the 1990s to around 700 in 2015-16.
Coke Magee has been promoted to superintendent of Lee County Schools, the first in the county to take on the role following the state's enactment of a 2016 law requiring all school districts to have appointed superintendents starting this year.
