An update to Maryland’s ESSA accountability plan would amend how schools in the state’s 24 districts would identify and create instructional programs for children found to be “talented or gifted,” shifting the screening bar from the sixth to the third grade. In addition, the plan...
Former 2018 Superintendent of the Year Dr. David Schuler argues that teaching students life skills like “creativity, flexibility and resilience” is more important than ever amid the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing the intent of the Every Student Succeeds Act to allow districts...
Parents in the Ferguson-Florissant School District just outside of St. Louis are “on edge after receiving an alarming e-mail about their classroom teachers.” According to the email received by some parents in the district, “one or more of their child’s teachers are not ‘highly qualified’...
“The most inexperienced and least qualified teachers continue to teach in schools with the highest-needs students in California,” reports John Fensterwald for EdSource. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, school districts are required “to write plans on how they would eliminate disparities in staffing in...
