Tuesday’s verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial will be a “where were you when…” moment for a generation of young people. That’s because George Floyd’s killing at the hands of a former Minneapolis police officer, and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, have been pivotal news events of their childhood. As the historic
Newark voters on Tuesday chose candidates backed by powerful elected officials to fill four open seats on the city’s nine-member school board, according to preliminary results. The winning candidates — two incumbents, a state senator’s aide who was filling a temporary board vacancy, and a newcomer — now face the monumental task of helping oversee
On a recent Thursday, Denver teacher Daniel Walter started a lesson on supply and demand with a question about legendary New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez. “If A-Rod’s skills are unique enough to get him paid $275 million, what do we know about the supply of great baseball players? High? Low? Somewhere in the middle?”
The plain language of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights says that to raise taxes from one year to the next requires a vote of the people. But what if voters agreed to keep school property taxes steady more than 20 years ago and state officials lowered them instead? Does it take another vote of the
After a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the death of George Floyd Tuesday, educators across the country prepared to help students make sense of this pivotal moment in U.S. history. The verdict — the culmination of a case that kicked off a historic wave of protests against police brutality and
Indiana lawmakers plan to boost funding to K-12 schools to fulfill a recommendation to add $600 million by 2023 to increase teacher pay. With about $2 billion more than they initially anticipated in the state revenue forecast, lawmakers proposed Tuesday to hike per-student spending by 4.6% in 2021-22 and 4.3% in 2022-23. Both increases exceed
CEOs get up at 5 a.m., but high school principals and religious leaders get up at 4. My husband made this observation on one of our first dates, and it came to mind as I drove across an eerily empty 149th Street to reopen my school in the South Bronx a few weeks ago. This
Shelby County Schools would build new school buildings, close others, and expand some that are overcrowded under an ambitious plan Superintendent Joris Ray unveiled Monday. Among the myriad of proposals in Ray’s “Reimagining 901” initiative, spelled out during a school board committee meeting: building new high schools in Frayser and Southeast Shelby County, expanding Melrose
As the Poudre School District in northern Colorado narrowed its search for its next superintendent, the school board announced three finalists for its top job. The Jefferson County School District, in contrast, named just one. Colorado law requires that public entities — such as school districts and public colleges and universities — release the names
A Tennessee senator on Monday withdrew legislation that would have forced Memphis school leaders to transfer four campuses to suburban school systems in Germantown and Millington. Sen. Brian Kelsey, a Republican from Germantown, said a state order is unnecessary because leaders in Memphis and Germantown recently began discussions about the future of Germantown elementary, middle
