Interacting with friends and affordability are key reasons that high school lunch service is soaring in popularity with students, according to No Kid Hungry's latest report.
Instead of a secret jury room in Dallas County's top criminal court, students were in their library at Kimball High School in Oak Cliff, learning about the criminal justice system from a judge-led program called Pipeline to Possibilities.
Superintendents in Sonoma, California, and Judson, Texas, have stepped down suddenly in recent days, while other leaders have switched districts or been dismissed without warning.
Research found that student newspapers began their decline over the last 15 years, but it's not exactly clear how much. Data shows that high schools in Queens or Staten Island are more likely to have a newspaper than in the Bronx or Brooklyn.
Women make up 76% of teachers in K-12 school settings but just a small percentage holds the most senior role in a district—the superintendent's position.