In other superintendent shifts, a big city school board scoffs at three finalists chosen by its search firm while a state superintendent is urging a district to change course on a new hire.
Classes in the 1,500-student Amory district will resume, although officials did not run school buses Tuesday because of safety hazards from roadside debris and heavy equipment.
A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said in a news release.
"We will have to make tough choices. Our resources must match our revenue," Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones said in a message to the community.
A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture.
Conservative Republicans in Kansas hoping to earmark state education dollars for helping parents pay for private schooling are struggling to win over enough rural and moderate GOP colleagues to get a law enacted.
Eighth-grader Jagger Shaw, 14, died last May after eating a granola bar given to him by a teacher but few details about what happened have been made public.
Mississippi Senate leaders are pushing to rewrite the state’s education budget formula, which has only fully funded public schools twice since it was put into law in 1997.