If leading a school district is a 24-7 job, superintendent salaries—when broken down as hourly wages—are in the same ballpark as those of correctional officers.
80% of the superintendents surveyed rated their boards as "highly effective" or "effective," but also cited politically driven parents as the most difficult group to work with.
States will be stuck with "F's" and other poor financial grades if they rely on ESSER relief to solve long-standing problems of unfairness, a new education spending analysis warns.
Joshua Goen, the suspended superintendent of Seagraves ISD, was arrested this week on suspicion of planting a recording device in a locker room to spy on a girls' basketball team, according to multiple local reports.
If your district serves a large number of students of color, it's likely receiving thousands of dollars less in funding per student than predominantly white school systems, a new report from The Education Trust reveals.
Anoka-Hennepin Schools—one of the largest districts in Minnesota—has chosen Cory McIntyre to become its next superintendent while Spartanburg School District Three hired Julie Fowler and Midland ISD picked Stephanie D. Howard.
Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler has been dismissed after a Virginia grand jury accused the district's leaders of "looking out for their own interests" by simply transferring a teenager who had been charged with sexually assaulting a student in a high school bathroom.
There are wide disparities between states when it comes to a full teaching staff. Florida, with the highest percentage of vacancies, has approximately 6.5 teachers per 1,000 residents. The lowest, North Dakota, has about 13 teachers per 1,000 in population.
