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The ex-superintendent reflects on a combined 13 years leading Dallas schools and why the pandemic wasn’t the lowest point of his tenure

This school year, one state has shuttered classrooms due to illness three times as often as the rest of the country combined, new data show. In Kentucky, infection has prompted at least 385 schools across 44 districts to cancel in-person classes for a day or more, accounting for three-quarters of all such disruptions across the […]

The Clark County School District hired a pest control company last month to trap and remove close to two dozen cats from a Las Vegas high school, but officials refuse to say what was to become of the creatures. “Desert Squad Pest and Wildlife will do 1 month of trapping for feral cats underneath the […]

This is our weekly briefing on the pandemic, vetted by John Bailey. See the full archive. The Crisis of Student Mental Health is Much Vaster Than We Realize The Big Three Signs of Academic Rebounding Emerge, But Concerns Remain  45% of Public Schools Don’t Have Full Teaching Staffs Teen Brains Changed During COVID Federal Updates […]

State inspectors try to get out into every school once every three years for a safety assessment. They didn’t come close to staying on schedule in 2021-22 — because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted K-12 operations across the state. All told, the state assessed 152 schools last school year, just one-fifth of Idaho’s 735 […]

Central High School sits near the heart of Louisville, KY, down the street from a community college, two big hospitals, a museum, and a short hop to the Jefferson County courthouse and the central business district. But take a different turn off the nearby Interstate and you see a far less prosperous Louisville, with homeless encampments, […]

The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers lost more than 59,000 working members combined during the 2021-22 school year, according to U.S. Department of Labor disclosure reports. That decline comes after an 82,000-member loss the previous year. School district staffing levels were not to blame. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that […]

I’m writing today’s column underwater. In a windowless submarine. Full to the brim with quicksand and malaise.  On the one hand, I’m just living another round of the fall parenting ritual—the seasonal cold that one of my three kids brought home.  But on the other hand, that viral downbeat sure hits differently when—like me—you’re one […]

Skye Oduaran was reading a Scholastic Magazine in fifth grade when she noticed a section inviting youth to apply for positions as kid reporters with the magazine. It intrigued her, so she sent in an application. Fast forward six months and the Atlanta 12-year-old now has zig-zagged across her state, scoring interviews with a sitting […]

Oregon’s pandemic home-schooling boom is beginning to cool off, new state data shows. The number of students taught at home this year is down about 7.5% from last year in 14 of the state’s 19 Education Service Districts that responded to Capital Chronicle data requests and that track total home-school enrollment at the beginning of […]