Varying — and in some cases lacking — definitions and data make the issue hard to track, as experts continue to pursue solutions for both prevention and recovery. Published Dec. 20, 2023 School shootings reached yet another unprecedented high in 2023, outpacing the previous year’s record for the third year in a row. With a…

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District may also consider closing or consolidating schools as enrollment keeps declining, superintendent says  Los Angeles Unified has enacted a targeted hiring freeze and may consider closing or consolidating schools as it faces the loss of federal pandemic aid and declining enrollment, superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in an interview last week. Carvalho, who nearly two years ago assumed leadership of…

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Is teaching 7th grade harder than teaching 3rd grade? Is a transfer from a high school principal’s position to the central office a “materially adverse” change? What about a school security guard’s move from a high school to a middle school? Those are some of the questions lower courts have faced in the context of…

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