The negative impacts of the pandemic on education are numerous and exhausting but here's a surprise for superintendents and their teams: teacher appreciation did not suffer.
Some 14 school board members from across the state are now in the sights of the Florida governor and the far-right group Moms for Liberty, who intended to replace these officials with "Freedom First" candidates for reasons ranging from supporting mask mandates to being "lifelong Democrats."
Over the last few years, despite a lot of testing, policy changes and the replacement of water infrastructure, many children are exposed to lead at school, authors of a new report called "Get the Lead Out," published Thursday, say.
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.
Districts around the world are utilizing the program to have students create a working app—no coding experience necessary—for everything from lunch schedules to newsletters, which schools can utilize in their day-to-day operations.
Cybercriminals are hungry for students' personal identity information and their blank credit history, and their tactics to retrieve such information are becoming increasingly stealthy.
"Increased exposure to same-race teachers is associated with improved course grades, attendance, grit and self-management, and the likelihood of being selected for gifted-and-talented programs," FutureEd's report says.
In 2021, Texas banned critical race theory from public schools. The academic theory probes the way policies and laws uphold systemic racism, such as in education, housing or criminal justice. Many conservatives have conflated the theory with equity or diversity efforts in schools.
A recent survey indicates that the profession is significantly less likely to receive job cuts during economic uncertainty compared to other industries.
