The Burlington Community School District plans to outfit administrators with wearable video cameras, which can be used to record private meetings involving administrators, parents, and students.

The two-minute videos feature school superintendents discussing new practices to develop leaders and manage career paths more intentionally.

Atlanta schools Superintendent Meria Carstarphen says district employees must be able to report possible wrongdoing without risking retaliation.

In the year that Jill Levine, the principal of Normal Park Museum Magnet School in Chattanooga, Tenn., spent as the Department of Education's full-time principal ambassador fellow, the department has been hailed for increasing its focus on school leadership.

Cerf, a former New Jersey Education Commissioner, will help lay the groundwork to return the district to local governance by the end of the next school year.

The funds will go toward programs supporting "READ! by 4th," a citywide campaign to have all of the city's children reading at grade level by the time they enter the 4th grade.

The cash-strapped district had sought an extension from the state to make the payments, arguing that it could not do so in full without impacting the classrooms.

The annual convention of elementary and middle school principals in Long Beach, Calif., focuses on empowering principals to tackle key challenges of the job.

If the district is successful, they'll have to take the final step without outgoing Superintendent R. Stephen Green, who has steered the district from "the brink of state takeover."

Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced that after 20 years under state control, the city's public schools will return to local governance by the end of the next academic year.