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How many non-teachers does a school district need? Since 1950, public schools all across America have added staff at a rapid rate—much faster than their increases in students. Sure, there have been some increases in lead teachers that resulted in large...

DISD Board trustee Mike Morath was featured in a Dallas Morning News Q&A over the weekend. You should read it. Morath also apparently feels the Q&A needs some clarification, which he has just issued via the miracle of e-mail. It does not mince...

This year, Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard helped Chicago teachers accomplish the impossible. Under a new Illinois law, the Chicago Teachers Union has to get a 75 percent vote of its entire membership (not just those voting) to call a...

Nearly a decade after she was hired as the first woman to run the Council Bluffs, Iowa, school district, Mary Martha Bruckner is often one of the only women in the room. That was the case in October when about two dozen superintendents and finance officers...

The Houston Independent School District has won the 2013 Broad Prize for Urban Education. Houston also won in 2002. Achievement gains included a 12-point increase in graduation rates from 2006 to 2009, double the average increase at the 75 urban...