The booming economy means a shortage of school bus drivers in many parts of the country. In Maine, the situation was so bad one school had to cancel classes for a day.
Declining participation has led some high schools to cancel their football seasons. While the cancellations happened from California to New Jersey, data shows that about half the schools that called off their season this year were in rural areas, where the loss of football doesn't just affect players and families, but ripples throughout the whole community.
The Vermont House of Representatives will vote this week on postponing implementation of a controversial school governance law. Many are asking lawmakers to postpone the school merger mandate by one year, to let a court case challenging the constitutionality of that order play out before forcing districts' hands.
Analyzing data out of a massive physical education initiative in Texas, researchers concluded that a daily physical education mandate didn't have any positive impact on kids' health or educational outcome. They found that the four-year program actually had detrimental effects, correlating with an uptick in discipline, bullying and absence rates.
As the legislative session begins in West Virginia, educators have started demonstrating against a move last month by Gov. Jim Justice's PEIA Task Force. Created as part of a deal to end the prior teachers' strike, the team leaders stated the force wouldn't recommend a long-term way to fund the state health insurance program at its current benefit levels before this session.
When I started teaching nearly 30 years ago, my principal, Elizabeth Terronez, challenged both of us. My job was to create an environment where creativity and innovation could thrive, while hers was to find a way to say "yes." My mission made perfect sense, but hers was beyond me. After becoming a school leader myself, […]
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.
Educators look on the bright side (and the not-so-bright side) to predict where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short in 2019.
Opponents of Act 46 have long predicted that the day of forced school mergers would arrive. That day turned out to be Nov. 30, when, under the authority of the state education reform law, the State Board of Education released its final plan to consolidate 45 Vermont school districts into 11 new unified districts. Opponents […]
