Recent tragedies prompted the first major gun safety legislation in 30 years. But it's clear that this problem can't be solved by our elected officials alone.

We should be less concerned about hiring teachers to fill vacancies and more concerned about retaining the teachers we do have.

Developing reading comprehension skills in the early grades has been long seen as one of the keys–if not the key–to students' future academic success. What has not been as clear are the best ways to build that capacity.

Here are a few of the most important things district educators learned from the pandemic and the new initiatives they will keep as their schools bounce back.