The Austin Independent School District in Texas has a problem finding teachers for some hard-to-fill positions that public school districts are facing throughout the country....
Seattle Public Schools is focused on addressing the "legacies of racism in our education system" and has made its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion employees among the highest paid in the district....
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has introduced legislation that would eventually allow all parents in the state to use their taxpayer dollars on private schools....
The Chicago Public Schools department charged with investigating sexual misconduct received 470 complaints in fiscal year 2022, a number described as "an extraordinary high case volume."...
There was also widespread fraud by "deliberately miscoding" truant students as transfers in an effort to "mask chronic absenteeism" that the Office of the Inspector General said called into question the district's reported attendance and graduation rates....
In August, the Milpitas School District in Santa Clara County, California, made national news when it asked homeowners in its community to rent out space to its teachers who could not afford housing....
The agenda for the Dec. 15 school board meeting has new language under "Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Student Participation" policy for interscholastic activities that states, "Students participating in interscholastic athletics may participate on the team of the gender with which they identify."...
While the district has had an increase in funding, enrollment has declined over the past six years, peaking at 21,937 students in 2016-17 and dropping to 19,828 in 2022-23....
In August, the Arkansas Department of Education gave $11.3 million in American Rescue Plan federal money for 84 after-school programs to address COVID-related learning loss....
School districts across the country are spending federal COVID-19 relief money on bonuses to employees saying their employees earned it for their work during the pandemic....
