If voting with your feet is a form of protest, K-12 schools need to start paying attention to the steady drumbeat of footsteps. Across the country, schools are experiencing some of the biggest enrollment drops ever in what amounts to a crisis of...

With a nationwide shortage of tens of thousands of teachers, school districts are scrambling to find new ways to recruit and retain talent. But there's one underutilized solution: federal stimulus money from the national COVID crisis.

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved.

What major industry still opera...

Public schools around the country could see some of the most exciting educational innovations in decades - if districts have the courage to quickly deploy a federal windfall to schools' best advantage.

It's a big if.

Schools are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime windfall of federal money to recover from the pandemic, but weak management and labor shortages mean billions may go unclaimed and unspent.

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed a series of s...