Thursday night, the Lorain School Board passed a fiscal oversight plan and a forecasted budget to keep the district solvent through 2028.

While it’s not unusual for boards grappling with declining enrolment to declare staff excess, the scale of this year’s cuts has alarmed union leaders.

A peculiar new phrase is taking over classrooms across the United States, leaving teachers exasperated and students gleeful. “6-7,” pronounced “six-seveeeen,” is not a mathematics problem. It is, ...