Turnover has risen from around 14% to 17% since the beginning of the pandemic and neither test scores nor safety appear to be among the top five reasons for K12 leaders' growing anxiety.

"Families have high expectations for their child's educations and the interactions they have with their school," a new analysis reads. "And when it comes to communication teachers, staff and administrators, the expectations rise even higher."

At noon on Monday, Houston Independent School District schools passed the deadline for voluntarily opting into Superintendent Mike Miles's New Education System (NES), a program that will reform and bring about wholesale changes for participating institutions.

A groundbreaking CTE initiative torpedoed by COVID has turned into a big win—and a massive new innovation campus—for Tomball ISD outside Houston.