Superintendent Anthony Jackson proposed a plan to give more teeth to existing policies surrounding student conduct and discrimination, establish support systems for students, train the district's staff and hire new personnel.
As school systems around the country were battening down for their first remote start-of-school in the fall of 2020, the Lewis-Palmer district in Colorado was embarking on another kind of experiment.
Do more project-based learning and do it outdoors: That philosophy has been driving Principal Patricia Gallegos' throughout the pandemic at San Antonito STEM Magnet Elementary in Albuquerque.
One of the best ways for high school students to continue to build social-emotional skills is to participate in some form of sports, a growing number of education experts say.
"We've got to get class size caps in the contract, mental health supports in the contract, we need living wages for our hourly ESPs and we need competitive pay for our license folks," union leader says.
The recent surge in gas prices is hitting school transportation budgets hard, raising concerns that if fuel prices keep up, some school districts could burn through their funding for buses.
During Richard Corcoran's tenure, the state department of education clashed with districts in the state and with the U.S. Department of Education over restrictions on mask mandates in schools.
The intense amount of work teachers are doing to support students through the pandemic is not sustainable. So principals across the country are giving teachers the space to refocus on why they chose the profession in the first place.
