By Trisha Powell Crain Here’s a bit of good news for teachers in Alabama — who could all use good news after this surreal school year. Alabama’s teacher salary increases now appear to be outpacing inflation. Three years ago, inflation had outpaced salaries for at least a decade, meaning any additional money teachers made through raises wasn’t…
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Can Schools Require Students to Get COVID-19 Vaccines, and Will They?
By Evie Blad — May 12, 2021 7 min read As younger children qualify for COVID-19 vaccines, public health officials are unsure of how many families will opt to have their children inoculated if the shots aren’t required for school attendance. While some colleges and universities have made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for their students, experts say it’s unlikely…
Teacher Appreciation Week: A thank you to all Rochester-area educators
BY WENDY MILLS ROCHESTERPUBLISHED 7:30 AM ET MAY. 07, 2021 ROCHESTER, N.Y. — From virtual classes to hybrid schedules and in-person learning, teachers and staff in every school district have had to adapt, change and juggle. All week, school districts from Wayne County to Livingston County and everywhere in between are acknowledging teachers for all their hard…
Judge forces Trenton public school teachers back to classrooms Read More: Judge forces Trenton public school teachers back to classrooms
DAN ALEXANDERPublished: April 30, 2021COVID-19 protocol at the Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School in Trenton (Brian McCarthy) TRENTON — In-person classroom instruction will return to public schools in the state’s capital city on Monday after a Superior Court judge ordered teachers back to work. The school district announced students would be back in classrooms for the first…
Washington schools have logged 182 COVID-19 outbreaks this school year, says new report
April 30, 2021 at 5:48 pm Updated April 30, 2021 at 6:42 pm By Hannah FurfaroSeattle Times staff reporter Washington has logged more than 182 coronavirus outbreaks in school buildings this school year, with a slim majority of school-linked infections in children and teenagers age 18 and younger, according to a new Department of Health report released Friday afternoon. …
Alabama teacher retirements in 2020 highest in nearly a decade
By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com Alabama’s K-12 public school employee retirement numbers show November, December and January departures at the highest levels in nearly a decade. According to numbers released by the Teachers Retirement Systems of Alabama, 3,245 public school employees retired in calendar year 2020, the highest number since a mass exodus in 2011…
Alabama’s top 10 education stories of 2020
Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic changed everything about how we did school this year, impacting everyone from little ones in pre-K to elementary, middle, high school and college students, too. While coronavirus dominated the education landscape, there were other notable happenings, too. Here’s our…
Education in Alabama in 2020: A look back
Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com Coronavirus was still new to most when state officials made the announcement on March 13 that all schools would shut down to keep the virus from spreading. Alabamians had just voted overwhelmingly to keep their elected state school board, the biggest story of the year up until…
Rural schools in Alabama hit hardest by enrollment losses during pandemic
December 9, 2020 7:05 AM By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com With Alabama schools now enrolling nearly 10,000 fewer students than last fall, AL.com took a closer look and found the losses were the largest in rural county systems and the missing students were most likely to be white students. Some districts experienced large student losses….
Metro Nashville Public Schools again weighing moving fifth-graders back to elementary school
Meghan Mangrum Nashville Tennessean Metro Nashville Public Schools is again considering reshuffling which students attend elementary school. The district is considering extending elementary schools to serve students in grades K-5, instead of sending fifth-graders to middle school like it has for decades. The recommendation from the Metro Schools ReimaginED steering committee – the district’s plan for improving academics across the…
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