Category: Hall Monitor

New Survey Shows Another 1 in 4 Leaders Expect to ‘Leave Soon’ A new RAND survey of over 350 school districts found more than a quarter

El Cajon Valley Union School District’s fleet is the first V2G project to come online in the U.S. The eight electric-powered school buses can send

What is the scope and severity of the pandemic’s effect on K-12 schools? Harvard economist Tom Kane offered compelling evidence of COVID-related learning loss this

Topics covered in this month’s update include: Legislature Enters Final Month of Session AB 902 (O’Donnell) – Progressive Design-Build AB 1867 (Lee) – SFP Modernization

The recently approved State Budget includes $600 million for local educational agencies (LEAs) to spend on kitchen infrastructure upgrades, increasing a school’s capacity to prepare

California State Teachers’ Retirement System experienced a negative return on investments for the first time since the Great Recession in 2008. CalSTRS reported a minus 1.3%

By Travis Pillow & Bree Dusseault, The 74 Amid all the concern about staffing shortages in America’s schools, the continued strain is showing up in another key place:

By Nat Malkus, American Enterprise Institute Key Points The COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest enrollment declines in the history of American public schools. School districts’

By Laura Fay, The 74 In the Sandhills of Nebraska, acclaimed educator Megan Helberg is building a ‘woven community’ of travelers’ through Zoom, trips and

By Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post Even after whittling my own group of jackhammer parents to a total of three by the end of this