Austin public schools will be closed Nov. 8 as districts navigate their roles as polling sites and the attendant safety risks in the wake of school shootings and threats to poll workers.

In the event of a cyberattack, districts need to have a cross-departmental team in place to address the issue, because IT can't do it alone.

Interactive Education Recovery Scorecard shows the difference between 2019 and 2022 test scores in some districts "was essentially zero" while students elsewhere fell much further behind. Scorecard should help superintendents recalibrate their plans to tackle learning loss, say the researchers at Harvard and Stanford universities who conducted the analysis.

While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen.