Small districts can promote themselves to the public by showcasing their unique strengths, fostering community engagement and actively communicating their efforts to improve student outcomes.

Mansfield City Schools, a district of 3,000 students in north-central Ohio, is staging what it calls “a sleep intervention,” hoping to improve academic success and reduce chronic absences, when a student misses more than 10% of the school year.

The lawsuit argues that students' First Amendment rights were harmed by what the ACLU called the "censorship of materials about race and gender in military-run schools." The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech.