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The West Virginia House Education Committee’s vice chairman expects a bill that would remove the statewide mandate that public school teachers with the least amount of seniority automatically lose their positions when job cuts are made in a particular teaching area to be considered in the impending legislative session. Read more>>
A lack of PD for teachers and principals hinders schools from achieving the full benefits of personalized learning, according to an analysis by MAPLE. Read more>>
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Draft rules for a 2017 state law that enables charter-school operators to acquire "unused" or "underutilized" public school district buildings need better definitions of the terms, a legislative sponsor of the law says. Read more>>
The proportion of U.S. high school students who report having had sexual intercourse has decreased, especially among black and Hispanic students, researchers say. The overall proportion of high school students who reported having sex dropped from 46.8 percent to 41.2 percent. Read more>>
Associated Press via CBS News
Ohio school districts in the past year and a half have tested drinking fountains and faucets inside hundreds of older buildings, finding that about 10 percent of the fixtures had elevated levels of lead in the water, state records show. Read more>>
A state report on teacher employment shows that 8.65 percent of the state's public school teachers left the profession last school year, down from 9 percent the prior year. At the same time, 4.8 percent of teachers left their districts to work in other public schools in the state, up from 4.36 percent. Read more>>
Lawmakers will have an estimated $199 million in “new” money for the coming budget year. While both the governor and the Legislative Finance Committee are proposing K12 spending increases, more than $11 million of the governor's recommendation would be for merit-based teacher stipends and other discretionary programs. Read more>>
Roughly 700,000 students ages 13 to 17 have experienced homelessness in the last year, a new study found. With increased preparation and knowledge on homelessness, school counselors could be in a better position to help homeless students follow their college dreams. Read more>>
A pair of proposed N.J. bills would allow schools within the same school district to merge teams for any varsity-level sport, with neither external oversight nor review. The result would grant 20 multi-school districts, unilateral, unchecked super powers over 415 other schools. Read more>>
Now that we have access to so much information, it's time to recognize empathy as core to how students learn and make the most of all the resources around them, including one another. Read more>>
Zonar is working with Advanced Transportation, a school bus contractor serving Puerto Rico, in effort to rebuild Puerto Rico’s school transportation in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The smart fleet management technology company will also provide financial relief for technology and support solutions. Read more>>
A new resource kit has been launched to aid organizations in creating success within mentoring initiatives with youths, college students or workplace employees. It includes resources and best practices for running and growing a mentoring program. Read more>>
The 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition season launched with a new robotics game called FIRST POWER UP, a new 8-bit video game that asks students to design, build, program and test robots to meet engineering challenges. Read more>>
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