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Anchorage, the state’s largest public school district, is cutting 49 teaching positions and increasing class sizes. And in tiny rural schools like Nightmute, the pain has almost reached the point of paralysis: Five of the school’s six teachers are leaving at the end of the school year. With a roughly $3.5 billion state budget shortfall, things could get much worse. Read more>>
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The Nevada Supreme Court rejected a petition from a group of parents who sought to intervene in a case challenging the state’s new school choice law. A three-judge panel said the interest of the parents are “adequately represented” by the state. The law is now on hold pending the outcome before the state high court. Read more>>
A watchdog panel questioned why the Cleveland school district is accepting gaps in its $500,000 investigation into how and why the district botched $8.5 million in federal E-rate technology rebates. Read more>>
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Business boost for education
Collaborations between businesses and districts run deeper than internships. Business representatives help districts create curriculum and train teachers. They also volunteer as coaches and mentors, to help students gain college and career readiness skills. Read more>>
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The Michigan Legislature is preparing to consider a $50 million bailout to keep the Detroit Public Schools operating through June to avert the specter this spring of payless paydays and 46,000 children locked out of shuttered buildings. Lawmakers have two weeks to act on the request for the emergency funding. Read more>>
The P-TECH was quickly replicated all over the country. But five years in, a year before the first full graduating class of the original school is expected, the model is showing signs of growing pains. Many of its students failed college courses early on. Read more>>
Nearly a decade ago, New York tried to simplify the way it funds public education. Instead, the funding method has become more complicated, said New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in a new report. He called for lawmakers to come up with a less complicated, equitable way to fund public education as a part of the state's ongoing budget negotiations. Read more>>
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Kids are much more likely to think in original ways if you teach them in conditionals rather than in absolutes. We could do a lot more encouraging kids to ask questions about multiple possibilities as opposed to searching for the one correct answer. Read more>>
In February, a New Jersey Senate committee voted to create a new category of law enforcement officials, eligible to be hired to patrol schools. Using retired officers would also mean that municipalities would not have to provide health and pension benefits because retirees were already receiving them. Read more>>
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Our students can’t grow up to be active citizens if they don’t understand the ideals upon which our country was founded and the journey that has brought us to where we are today. To avoid that fate, Massachusetts should restore passage of the U.S. MCAS history test as a condition of high school graduation. Read more>>
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Tennessee’s Maury County Public Schools signed a new partnership with Discovery Education to provide educators access to digital content from Discovery Education Streaming Plus. In addition, more than 100 teachers and administrators will participate in the PBL Champion Leader Corps, an initiative powered by Discovery Education’s Professional Development Services. Read more>>
NH Learning Solutions Corporation
NH Learning Solutions Corporation launched NHGO NOW, an on-demand video subscription service with self-paced video training sessions. The video learning library features thousands of short segment video lessons, ranging from desktop productivity to more technical solutions like .Net and C# programming languages. Read more>>
EverFi/The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Using the power of instructional design, gamification and real-world simulations, the Goodyear Future STEM Leaders Program will provide students from the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) STEM High School and the associated NIHF Center for STEM Learning with digital learning opportunities to help them build entrepreneurship and STEM skills. Read more>>
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Ohio's Fairborn City Schools has named Mark North as its new superintendent. The current Lebanon City Schools superintendent since 2005, North will replace interim superintendent Terry Riley in August. Read more>>
Shaker Regional School District Superintendent Maria Dreyer is wrapping up her four years of service to the community, and a total of 30 years as a teacher and administrator. She will retire from the New Hampshire district at the end of the school year. Read more>>
Doug Gee, who has been the shared superintendent of Boyer Valley and Woodbine Schools in Iowa since 2015, has been offered the superintendent position by the Clear Lake Board of Education. Read more>>
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