TOP NEWS NPR Teachers in Arizona held a strike vote that launched a first-ever statewide walkout and turned down a proposed pay raise—instead demanding increased school funding. The Arizona Education Association and the grassroots group the Arizona Educators United announced that teachers will walk off the job April 26. Read more>> Sponsored Sponsored by Cisco Meraki Ensure student safety at all times with cloud-managed security cameras. With Meraki MV, you can find security incidents faster and with more accuracy, monitor high-quality video footage from anywhere, and easily deploy and manage hundreds of cameras, with no NVR required. Learn more about Meraki MV for K-12. Read more>> The Charlotte Observer Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a $130 million school safety budget. The biggest spending, at $65 million, would go toward making buildings safer. He calls for $40 million to go toward hiring more counselors, psychologists, social workers and nurses, and $15 million for more mental health programs. Read more>> NBC News A proposal to allow school staffers to carry guns and spring into action in the event of a school shooting has divided a Florida district. After the Brevard County sheriff's office suggested the idea, hundreds of school employees quickly volunteered to do double duty as armed undercover marshals. Read more>> The Courier-News Five schools in the Illinois district are currently participate in a program to incorporate trauma-informed care into classrooms and help students achieve success in the face of stressful situations that they have or will in the future. The number of U46 schools participating is likely to increase next school year. Read more>> ARLnow.com The Virginia district's school board will hear an update on student rights and the partnership between schools and the Arlington County Police Department. Police officers are embedded in schools full time via the department’s school resource officer unit. Read more>> News Service of Florida via News Chief Rejecting arguments of school boards across the state, a circuit judge formally rejected a challenge to a controversial 2017 law. Debate about the measure highlighted continuing tensions between local school districts and the state about oversight and expansion of charter schools. Read more>> From DA Magazine Tim Goral In The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, Daniel Koretz says the pressure to raise achievement test scores often leads to outright cheating. Read more>> WJLA Woodrow Wilson High School's principal sent a memo to families recently explaining that the school's senior administrative team withheld the location of the prom to prevent parents from booking hotel rooms for their children. Read more>> OPINION Vox A new survey by the Pew Research Center shows that 57 percent of U.S. teenagers are worried that a shooting could take place at their own school. Three-quarters of Latino teens said they were worried, and 60 percent of black teens surveyed were worried about the possibility. Read more>> Education Dive Cursive is undergoing a bit a renaissance in 14 states. The new rules may have some backing from science. A 2014 study found that students who take notes by hand may retain more information than those who type notes into a computer. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS Casio America, Inc. ClassPad.net is an all-in-one web-based mathematics resource that allows simultaneous work with calculation, graphing, geometry and data analysis/statistics, which helps teachers demonstrate things they can’t show in other ways. Read more>> Lexia Learning/Rosetta Stone Lexia Learning announced that Lexia Reading Core5 has been named by the Utah State Board of Education as an approved provider of early interactive reading software for literacy instruction and assessment for grades K3. Read more>> Pitsco Education KUBO Robotics, a screen-free coding solution for emergent readers, is available in the U.S. exclusively from Pitsco Education. A puzzle-like way for K2 students to experience coding for the first time, KUBO comes with activity mats, coding TagTiles and the KUBO robot. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ PEOPLE WATCH The News-Herald Marvin B. Jones II will begin on July 1 in the Euclid School District. He is currently the director of secondary education, alternative education and hearing officer for the Springfield City School District. Jones replaces Superintendent Charles Smialek, who has accepted the superintendent position at Parma City Schools. Read more>> The Baltimore Sun Verletta White, who has been the interim superintendent for the past nine months, has been named as the Baltimore County school system's permanent superintendent. Read more>> TAPinto.net Montclair Kendra V. Johnson has been selected as Montclair’s permanent superintendent of schools. She is the district’s first permanent superintendent in three years, and the first African American superintendent in its 144-year history. Johnson currently serves as the district’s assistant superintendent for equity, curriculum and instruction. Read more>> |