Local Control
Education Funding
California Gov. Brown Proposes $4 Billion Boost for Schools and More Local Control
In his last term in office, Gov. Jerry Brown wants to boost local officials' ability to improve schools and fully fund the state's funding formula two years ahead of schedule.
School & District Management
Opinion
Educating the 'Whole Child' Requires Courageous Leaders
Student achievement and educating the 'whole child' can be seen in actions schools take. For that, school leaders must have courage to lead away from hesitations.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Interviewing? Good Questions are Important. Careful Listening is Paramount.
Hiring is, arguably, the most important shared role of leaders and the governing body. It deserves and investment of time to listen openly and share perceptions and thoughts.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Loss of Freedom of Thought and Expression Threatens Schools
Limiting speech and access to information is the antithesis of our purpose in a free and open democracy. The limits being placed on the internet and on speech in the CDC will affect our work, certainly.
School & District Management
Opinion
School Leaders Build Trust by Inviting Others to the Table
It is about presence. It isn't just about Rotary or Kiwanis. It is also about church dinners and nonprofit fund raisers. It is business and police. It is clergy and senior citizens and parents and preschool providers. Is it too much to ask?
School & District Management
Opinion
Are We Leading Change or Leading in a New Era?
The traditional modes of teaching and learning are being disrupted form outside the schools walls and educators know that a richness for students will arrive when those walls become more permeable under teacher leadership.
Education
Philadelphia Mayor Calls for Local Control of City's Schools
Mayor James Kenney says a local board to govern the city's public schools would be appointed, making him ultimately accountable for the success or failure of the district.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Why We Desperately Need to Rethink College and Career Readiness
The answer is not to "bring back" vocational training. The answer is to redefine vocational training and integrate it into the learning required for all students to graduate from high schools.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
School Leaders, Racial Bias, and Hope
Unlike the POTUS, our actions will directly, and immediately impact children and families. So, we cannot be complacent.
School & District Management
Opinion
Football, Head Injuries, and a School Leader's Choices
Researchers some of our football players will live a lifetime battling behaviors and issues never knowing they are caused by those tackles they so loved when living their halcyon days of middle and high school.
Assessment
Opinion
A New Grading System Meets a Critic's Empty Words
When schools step up to consider new ways to engage and motivate students they should be lauded.
Education
Newark To Regain Control of Its Schools After 22 Years Under State Authority
The New Jersey board of education approved two resolutions that will put local officials in Newark in charge of their schools, but the district and the state still have to come up with a transition plan for how that will happen.
School & District Management
News in Brief
New Jersey Set to Return Control of Public Schools to Newark
Two decades after seizing control of the school system in Newark, New Jersey was expected to return the 40,000-student district to local control this week. Gov. Chris Christie said that the state board of education was to vote this week to make it official. The state took over the district in the mid-1990s, citing y...
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How Schools Can Help Adolescents Become Responsible, Informed Adults
The lines that separate childhood from adolescence and adolescence from adulthood have disappeared. Rites of passage are few. But there is something schools can and should do.
