The Point Pleasant Beach School District offers students a wide range of academic and extracurricular programs that "outmatches our size," Superintendent William T. Smith boasts.
While issues like cybersecurity and digital equity continue to be top-of-mind for K12 IT leaders, one concern stands out as the most prominent, and it has since 2013.
At least eight states have put new school choice policies on the books in the first five months of 2023, with some of them expanding to all K-12 students. Other measures are still up in the air.
Far more students are on track to take eighth-grade algebra, a prerequisite for more advanced coursework in high school, per The 74. Prior to a 2019 policy change, only 20% of Dallas ISD eighth graders were enrolled in Algebra I, compared with 60% today.
Four months after restricting access, educators are now eager to "embrace its potential." Says University of Washington professor Jason Yip, "Banning ChatGPT is like using a piece of paper to block this flood that is coming."
Nationally, parents have become increasingly worried about the GOP's book-banning push and have cooled somewhat on the curriculum concerns that dominate Republicans' education platform.
Many institutions have missed significant opportunities to utilize high school technology tools—often due to a lack of training, funding, infrastructure, or resources.
Republican Rep. Raymond Crews authored and pitched the bill as a "parental rights" piece of legislation, noting that a student can receive parental permission to use pronouns that do not correlate with their sex assigned at birth. However, teachers can reject the parent's choice if it is contrary to the educator's "religious or moral convictions."
The 4-day school week, seen as a powerful recruitment tool, could cause as much learning loss as the pandemic but over a protracted period of time, according to a new Rand Corporation analysis.
