EduClips: Discipline Program Failed to Intercept Parkland Shooter, Critics Say; LAUSD Averts Strike With Service Workers — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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Top Story
SUPERINTENDENTS — Nearly everywhere, it seems, new superintendents have been sought recently.
The country’s three largest school districts — New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — have all seen new leaders appointed since the start of the year. School boards in and just picked new leaders, and the top job in Washington, D.C., has been open since February. Two of the most challenging districts in New Jersey, Newark and Camden, are also on the market.
But that churn, and the oft-cited statistic that superintendents on average stay on the job for only three years, may be an anomaly, according to a released Tuesday. The three-year figure is for superintendents currently on the job, but a survey of all the superintendents who have served in the 100 largest school districts since 2003, including many who have since left, found that they had been in office an average of six years when they departed. (Read at The74Million.org)
National News
GRADUATION CONTROVERSY — Faculty Member Shoves Black Graduates Offstage, and the University of Florida Apologizes ()
ELECTION — Two School Choice Champions in Congress Squared Off for a Senate Seat. Both Lost. ()
PHILANTHROPY — Gates, Zuckerberg team up on new education initiative ()*
ROBOTICS — FIRST Robotics Championship Boosts Diversity ()
District and State News
FLORIDA — Did discipline diversion program fail Parkland? Superintendent vows improved policies. ()
CALIFORNIA — LAUSD reaches contract deal with SEIU, avoids strike ()
PENNSYLVANIA — Toxic City: Cleaning up Philly’s contaminated schools has a huge price tag | Editorial ()
NEW YORK — Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza gets Twitter support for stance on integration ()
CALIFORNIA — GOP candidates for governor say California schools need changes, not more funding ()
NEVADA — Gubernatorial candidates spar over education funding at bipartisan forum ()
NEW YORK — A $24 million New York City program was supposed to prepare more black and Latino men for college. But a new study found it didn’t. ()
TEXAS — Fort Worth ISD using billboards to recruit Oklahoma teachers ()
ILLINOIS — Illinois bill looks to expand enrollment at high school ()
Think Pieces
DUNCAN AND SPELLINGS — What ails education? ‘An absence of vision, a failure of will and politics’ ()
FIGURE SKATING — Figure Skating Program Transforms Black and Latina Girls From Harlem and Detroit Into Champions on Ice & in School — and Beyoncé’s a Fan (Read at The74Million.org)
BOOK CONTROVERSY — Parents Are Divided Over a Book in a Popular Student Reading Program in Oregon ()
ABSENTEEISM — Why are these Mississippi students missing so much school? ()
TEACHERS — In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, 8 essays from educators who raised their voices this year ()
RACISM — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a lesson students sorely need ()
Quote of the Day
“I was shocked. He literally wrapped his arms around me. I didn’t understand what was going on.” —Oliver Telusma, a University of Florida graduate, one of several students who was yanked off stage by a faculty marshal after dancing onstage at the school’s recent graduation ceremony. ()
*Disclosure: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports The 74.
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