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CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicag…

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, which contends that schools are not properly outfitted to combat the coronavirus.

Teachers who don’t show up for work Monday “will be deemed absent without leave and will not be eligible for pay,” said Janice Jackson, CEO of the nation’s third-largest school district.

Why Teaching Civic Engagement is Essential

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION MAGAZINE

Stopping Criminals in Their Tracks

District Administration

Visitor management programs and software are a growing trend in K12 schools, according to Chuck Hibbert, a national school security consultant and the retired director of security for Wayne Township Schools in Indianapolis. In some districts, school…

Visitor management programs and software are a growing trend in K12 schools, according to Chuck Hibbert, a national school security consultant and the retired director of security for Wayne Township Schools in Indianapolis. In some districts, schools are using additional software that checks visitors against sexual predator and/or criminal databases.

Textbooks to Tablets

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION MAGAZINE

Study Abroad as an Online Student

US NEWS & WORLD REPORT

Windows 8 in Schools

District Administration Magazine

CHICAGO — Chicago opened public school classrooms this week for the first time since the spring, but 18 percent of teachers and staffers required to return Monday did not do so, according to the school district, which is starting disciplinary proced…

CHICAGO — Chicago opened public school classrooms this week for the first time since the spring, but 18 percent of teachers and staffers required to return Monday did not do so, according to the school district, which is starting disciplinary procedures against some employees.

On Monday night, Chicago Public Schools notified 145 employees that they were considered absent without leave and that their pay would be docked beginning Tuesday. Some teachers who spent Monday teaching virtually instead of returning for in-person instruction were also locked out of their Google Classroom accounts in the evening, according to a district email that many teachers received.

Planning Your IEPs During COVID

Metro (Detroit) Parent Magazine

Misty Kluck knows what it means to be a parent-advocate.After finding out her daughter Tessa had Down syndrome while in utero, Kluck was asked if she wanted to terminate her pregnancy.“I was heartbroken,” says Kluck, who also has a 26-year-old daugh…

Misty Kluck knows what it means to be a parent-advocate.

After finding out her daughter Tessa had Down syndrome while in utero, Kluck was asked if she wanted to terminate her pregnancy.

“I was heartbroken,” says Kluck, who also has a 26-year-old daughter. “It’s like going through the death of your child because of what you thought it was going to be and what you thought they were going to do.”

Instead, Kluck moved from Louisiana to Michigan to be closer to her husband’s family and access better medical services.

A Parent’s Guide to School Online

Chicago Parent magazine

Stressed. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Frustrated. Anxious. This describes just about every parent who is trying to prepare for a new school year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Let’s face it: Help can’t come fast enough.As many parents have realized, it’…

Stressed. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Frustrated. Anxious.

This describes just about every parent who is trying to prepare for a new school year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Let’s face it: Help can’t come fast enough.

As many parents have realized, it’s up to us to muddle through to figure out how to make school work this year as teachers are trying to do the same, all while trying to stay healthy.

Without a streamlined approach at a national level, the pandemic has left every city, state and school district interpreting their own options. Many are eyeing a hybrid school option, with time spent in school and at home learning.

That’s not something any parent wants to face, particularly working parents, but it’s our new reality.

Enhancing School Access Control

District Administration Magazine

Five years ago, the Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina went digital, with laptops and MacBook Air computers districtwide. The district has not purchased a textbook in over five years, with the exception of those required for high …

Five years ago, the Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina went digital, with laptops and MacBook Air computers districtwide.

The district has not purchased a textbook in over five years, with the exception of those required for high school Advanced Placement classes.