From enrollment declines to changes in teacher pay, a new report sheds light on some of the key characteristics of public schools in each state to showcase the condition of K12 education across the country. For varying reasons, these states stood out.
An estimated 92% of local education agencies used pandemic relief funds to purchase hardware and other services essential to continuing student learning during the pandemic, a new report suggests.
"Be so bold in your approach to work that you actually invite termination for being so passionate," says Carvalho, superintendent at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the country.
An off-duty police officer who was on the baseball field at Florida’s Parkland high school during the 2018 massacre testified Thursday that he mistook gunshots for fireworks before he realized what was happening and approached the school unarmed.
In the next three years, all Missouri school districts must have a plan in place to annually instruct students about the Holocaust. They must also designate the second week in April as "Holocaust Education Week" for grades 6-12.
Paramount to the plan is a 25% reduction of statewide standards compared to what is currently in place. Only a third of the standards that will remain have been identified as "essential."
When Verletta White became the superintendent of Roanoke City Public Schools at the height of the pandemic, she toured the community to ask families what was—and wasn't—working.
A closer look Florida’s No. 1 ranking in education by U.S. News & World Report shows the state’s relatively high marks stem partly from actions that predate the pandemic—or even DeSantis as governor.
