Dr. Mark Penny, superintendent of Lincoln County R-III in Troy, Missouri, believes every student can find success in public education, no matter their circumstance.
"It's vital for all of our classrooms to be housed with a full-time, permanent teacher so that our students can receive the best education possible," said John McEntee, president of the Paterson Education Association, a union representing about 2,800 employees.
Teachers need space to heal and to break the pattern of struggle to reconnect with their jobs emotionally. They also need to feel trusted and respected.
While districts in New York City and Seattle have blocked ChatGPT, administrators in Denver Public School are exploring how to use OpenAI's chatbot as a teaching tool.
With a shortage of school counselors and incidents of self-harm and violence toward others surging this past year, districts are turning toward online monitoring services that can help administrators stay ahead of the curve.
"We know there's a lot of kids that have problems at home, tough times at home that we don't know anything about," Azinger said, speaking on the Senate floor. "Maybe they'll look up one day and say, 'In God We Trust' and know they can put their hope in God."
Districts' efforts to become more inclusive and equitable are causing rifts in traditional power structures, Ohio State associate professor of educational policy Ann Allen tells Axios.
The offer and reversal comes amid national efforts to restrict or ban certain books and topics in many schools. Alabama's state board of education banned the teaching of divisive topics in 2021, which included teaching one race was superior to another, but has not banned any book titles
Despite pressure from politicians and parents, few district leaders have reported imposing curriculum restrictions due to political polarization around race, gender and LGBTQ topics.
