Teachers in the Boston suburb have been working without a contract since the start of the school year. The Newton Teachers Association (NTA) is calling for better pay and a living wage for teaching assistants, some of whom start at $26,000 a year.
Facing state takeover, Jackson Public Schools shifted its instructional culture to focus on a growth mindset, continuous improvement and modeling excellence on video.
At the final DALI Summit this year in Naples Grande Beach Resort, superintendents seamlessly shifted gears between commiserating with fellow district leaders and getting down to business to identify, diagnose and provide solutions to some of their most top-of-mind issues.
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Salem-Keizer schools will slash its administrative budget by $30 million in coming days, enacting salary freezes and layoffs as the district grapples with a funding shortfall it warns will likely result in more grave impacts in the spring.
Gov. Tina Kotek said Tuesday she plans to spearhead a statewide conversation over how to address the myriad of systemic challenges plaguing the state’s public school system.
In a news release, PAT said its tentative agreement with the school district includes “expanded language on target class sizes and caseloads including new committees to discuss growing class sizes, improved overage thresholds that cover new classifications of educators, and a guarantee of 410 minutes of protected planning time for educators at every grade level.”
As of late Monday, the PAT and Portland Public Schools appeared to be very close to a contract settlement that would end the teacher strike. But some college-bound students taking advanced courses are worried about how they’ll catch up when class returns
State officials did look through the Portland Public Schools budget recently and identified about $12 million that could be used to bring the two sides together. But $12 million is only a fraction of the difference between the school district proposal and that of the Portland Associations of Teachers.
Schools in Andover will be closed again on Tuesday, November 14. It will be the third day the approximately 5,600 students in the district will miss classes.
