The Arizona governor announced he will again ask lawmakers to approve his school safety plan, including a controversial provision to allow judges to take guns away from people considered dangerous.
In his State of the State speech, Gov. Eric Holcomb talked about making teacher pay competitive with surrounding states. He proposed having the state pay off a pension liability that schools currently pay. He also announced the creation of a Teacher Pay Commission to develop a plan in time for the 2021 legislative session.
While the LAUSD strike is the latest installment of a trend driven by exasperated educators, various factors make it unique. The city's public-school teachers are predominantly people of color—and a plurality of them are Latino, like most of the students they serve. Numerous teachers say a sense of solidarity with their students is what's driving them to the picket lines.
House Republican leaders announced they will advance a proposal setting a target of districts spending at least 85 percent of state money on teachers and other classroom costs. The proposal wouldn't force spending changes on districts, but would require a state report listing their performance.
When the North Carolina General Assembly reconvenes on January 9, seventh-grade English teacher Justin Parmenter wants legislators to consider these five ways to improve education in the state this year: Restore teaching assistants, provide trauma-informed training, overhaul school report cards, reinstate the charter cap and pay teachers well.
Following success at the ballot box in November, Democratic legislators are again proposing legislation to allow New Hampshire school districts to bar people from carrying firearms onto school grounds, after a similar effort last year failed to clear a Republican-controlled Senate.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of school safety bills into law. In addition, another education bill requires the Michigan Department of Education to give every school an A-F letter grade in five categories.
Four superintendents look ahead to 2019 in education, and forecast where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short. These district leaders discussed a range of topics, including assessment, accountability and flipped learning.
Initially billed as a cost-cutting measure, the New Jersey superintendent salary cap failed to save money and instead resulted in a higher probability that superintendents across the state would quit, according to new research from Rutgers University. Initially billed as a cost-cutting measure, the New Jersey superintendent salary cap failed to save money and instead […]
