Superintendents should be aware that federal funding sources from ESSA to ESSER let state education leaders invest in the collection and analysis of district data.

With some exceptions, current law grants local school boards discretion in the use of corporal punishment for other students.

The new program could provides these teachers with up to $15,000 in additional pay each year.

A growing number of school districts, concentrating in the south, have lifted COVID restrictions, allowing students to remove masks when at their desks.