CDC's big shift in masking guidance creates new challenges for "an exhausted and sometimes scapegoated workforce" of teachers planning for education's recovery.

Faced with an ongoing teacher shortage during the coronavirus pandemic, officials in Connecticut announced plans late last year to allow college students to teach in public school classrooms, offering aspiring educators hands-on experience while alleviating the staffing crunch for administrators.

The program provides flexibility to consolidate federal, state, and local funding to create a single school funding system based on weighted per-pupil allocations for low-income and other disadvantaged students.

Free expert coaches helped school leaders figure out every-day logistics in a pandemic, and think about the future of schooling, too.