Etc.

Parents could oppose standardized testing mania by employing these suggestions.
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"Tenure" is under fire in New Jersey. We will see if idiot politicians without a clue get their way and make sure nobody will ever want to teach.

Remember, public school "tenure" isn't really tenure at all but merely the same due process rights police and fire personnel get.
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One of the slimiest administrators in the country has second thoughts on standardized tests, after of course he ruined a lot of lives in Chicago:

Many state assessments are given in March or April, so they capture only what a student has learned in the first two-thirds of the school year. The results often don't come back until the summer, too late for teachers to use the scores to guide their approach in the classroom.

"They're not useful," said Paul Vallas, a veteran superintendent who has helped turn around districts in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans and is now running the schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Vallas is hardly anti-test: He favors giving abbreviated versions of standardized tests every six weeks, all year, so teachers can monitor student progress and adjust accordingly. But a single high-stakes test? "A big mistake," Vallas said.

"The assessment systems are not reliable," he said. "They need to be more sophisticated, more accountable, more fair."

Vallas was for them before he was against them and now he's kinda for them if they are "fair."
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Of southern Oregon interest is yet another (former) teacher who has been arrested and charged with sexual misconduct with a student.

The local paper is behind a paywall, so the AP report is linked here instead.

She resigned from the district on April 1. The relationship between her and the 18-year-old was "consensual," but since there is a power imbalance involved, it is still illegal and unethical.

I have written before that in the old days, before the 1980s when sexual harassment became such a hot topic, it was not at all unusual for high school teachers and student teachers to date students over the age of consent. There were even a few marriages resulting. However, concern about liability put an end to this to the point where such relationships were now actually criminalized.

This has nothing to do with pedophilia or statutory rape. Those are completely different.