As leaders of LAUSD and United Teachers Los Angeles remain locked in an impasse over a new contract, the district has hired close to 400 substitute staffers to replace picketing educators in the event of a potential strike on January 10. But the move has sparked outrage from the union.

The Wyoming school district will try a new security system that allows students, teachers or visitors to activate an alarm that immediately alerts law-enforcement officers and pinpoints the location of the alarm within the building. The BluePoint Alert system will soon be installed at the district's four secondary schools.

A state Senate committee approved recommendations that include starting no earlier than seven to 10 days before Labor Day, and ending around June 1. Most of Georgia's 181 school districts begin in the first half of August and end in May.

New York City recently introduced a plan that would bring preschool for 3-year-olds into home-based childcare. It's a move that other districts are likely to watch closely. There is no playbook for how to effectively include home-based childcare in public preschool, and most programs have relied on schools and centers.