The Uvalde school district has picked its new superintendent after a year without a permanent leader, as a large Florida district and a half dozen others also filled vacancies at the top.
In the 2021-22 school year, more than 900 teachers left their jobs in El Paso's three largest districts. That was the highest number ever, and Texas also set a statewide attrition rate that year.
In the 2021-22 school year, more than 900 teachers left their jobs in El Paso's three largest districts. That was the highest number ever, and Texas also set a statewide attrition rate that year.
"A long, long time ago I heard a superintendent talk and say, 'The problem with communication is 90% of the time people think they communicated, they didn't communicate or they miscommunicated,'" says Sean Maika, who was recently named a Superintendent to Watch by the National School Public Relations Association. "That leads to 90% of your problems."
"We do not want our children subjected to substandard learning," Houston Federation of Teachers President Jackie Anderson said at Friday's protest outside the district's headquarters.
Over the last five full school years, 47 of the nation's largest school districts saw a 79% spike in guns found on campus, according to a new analysis from The Washington Post.
Superintendent Eric Gallien has been suspended by his school board just a few months after he took the helm of Charleston County School District, the second-largest system in South Carolina. Elsewhere, a handful of districts hired first-time superintendents.
Turner has four months left as mayor, and said he assumed he would not have to wage anymore political battles and speak out. But he said he owes it to his parents to speak against changes happening in HISD.
