In all, underfunded districts are seeing significant gaps in teacher salaries when compared to their better funded counterparts, have fewer resources such as counselors and librarians, are more likely to fill open positions with people holding emergency teaching permits or those just starting their careers, and are reporting high attrition rates among teachers and principals.

Jefferson County Public Schools officials canceled more than 100 bus routes Monday because dozens of bus drivers called out. By Monday morning, a total 143 drivers had called out sick.

In recent months, a Cobb County teacher was fired over the book she read to her class but in Marietta, parents have been fighting to put a book back on the shelves.