Acting superintendent Michele Mitchell has been appointed the full-time superintendent of Newport News Public Schools in Virginia and Raúl Peña will lead Hutto ISD in Texas.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters has launched a very public campaign of criticism against Tulsa Public Schools and Superintendent Deborah Gist, threatening the district's accreditation and comparing Tulsa public schools to a bus that Gist is driving off the road into a tree.
Arkansas teachers were told just 48 hours before the start of the 2023-24 school year that students would not get credit for the newly-created AP African American Studies, a course that is in high demand elsewhere.
The Tempe Union High School District, the Columbia School District and the Laramie County School District 1, are among the systems experiencing sudden turnover in the early days of the 2023-24 school year.
The keyword as students head back to school in Alaska's Mat-Su Borough School District is "STAR." Actually, it's an acronym—but not one of the really dull ones.
"Learning should be interactive"—that's what Superintendent Chip Jones was told by students at Cumberland County Public Schools. Well, message received.
Policy updates include replacing the word "equality" with "equity" and removing gendered pronouns and nouns. Names of certain mandated curricula have also been changed.