Tag: school districts

December 21, 2022

Keeping K-12 schools safe from cyberattacks has become a growing concern for educational institutions, especially as these attacks increase in sophistication and frequency nationwide. This past September, a school district in Detroit was hit with a cyberattack that closed its […]

December 12, 2022

Public education remains the nation’s great equalizer, giving every child the best chance for success in life. A chance that can turn into an assurance if school districts provide a solid foundation at every step in a student’s path toward […]

October 5, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic affected every aspect of our lives for more than two years, but perhaps the hardest hit population were children who suddenly found themselves unable to go to school. This was disruptive not only from an educational standpoint, […]

September 8, 2022

School districts nationwide are facing unprecedented teacher shortages, with thousands of classrooms unstaffed as the school year begins. Filling these vacancies with certified teachers is a critical need. With no end in sight to this teacher crisis, some districts across […]

May 31, 2022

Distributed denial of service attacks against K–12 school districts have risen sharply over the past two years. The attacks come from outside actors and, increasingly, from students who discover they can buy a DDoS attack as a service online, as […]

October 26, 2021

Though school districts had to increase recruitment and retention efforts to address bus driver shortages long before COVID, pandemic-related challenges have led to unprecedented transportation headaches for many nationwide. In a joint survey from the National Association for Pupil Transportation, […]

September 3, 2021

As President Joe Biden announced the end of the longest war in U.S. history, schools across the nation prepared for an influx of refugees, who were among the more than 120,000 people that were evacuated from Afghanistan. “So many of […]

October 5, 2020

Large school districts in different parts of the United States have now developed systematic ways to increase diverse students’ access to advanced courses, and the districts are also providing other important aspects of equity, including an education that prepares the […]

August 24, 2020

A teenager in Fulton County, Georgia, lost both parents to COVID-19 this summer. When he returns to school, staff members will be ready to help. “There’s multiple layers to this,” said Christopher Matthews, Fulton County Schools assistant superintendent of student […]

March 25, 2020

When Utah Gov. Gary Herbert put all K-12 public schools under a soft close earlier this month to help mitigate the spread of novel coronavirus, the Duchesne County School District saw two potential problems: How would students have access to […]

July 11, 2019

Despite numerous efforts to legislate school integration, on the practical level, segregation in schools persists 65 years after the Brown decision, according to a recent report by Civil Rights Project. In some cases, wealthy communities have succeeded in breaking away […]

August 24, 2018

The recent history of state takeovers of school districts or schools has proven largely unsuccessful. The attempts have been labeled a failure by some, racially-motivated by others, and harmful to students in other cases. The challenges that low-performing schools face […]

April 23, 2018

The ESSA mandate regarding financial transparency at the school level seems to be a two-edged sword for school districts. While the requirement clearly poses new challenges for school districts, it may also spark conversations about schools’ specific needs. Though the […]

March 10, 2016

The ed-tech procurement process is broken, said former New York City Public Schools Chancellor Harold Levy during the 2016 South by Southwest Education (SXSWedu) conference in Austin, Texas, March 8—and to prove it, he said a study last month found […]