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The New York Times
In a potential reprieve for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York State Legislature passed an omnibus bill containing a two-year deal for mayoral control over New York City’s schools, ending a looming uncertainty over the nation’s largest school system and its 1.1 million students. Read more>>
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San Antonio Express-News
The Texas Education Agency has appointed a monitor to oversee the Donna ISD after an investigation found the school district lacks internal controls as a result of trustees who repeatedly abused their authority, the agency said. Read more>>
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Associated Press via WUNC
A large charter school management company is lobbying North Carolina legislators to create a new market for a type of school only rarely attempted. The legislation, modeled on a Louisiana law, would allow corporations that help build or equip taxpayer-funded charter schools to reserve half the seats in those schools as an employee perk. Read more>>
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WRAL
A three-judge panel will determine whether the state superintendent or the state board of education should have the power to supervise the state's 1.5 million public school students and $10 billion-plus budget. The judges ended the Thursday hearing without making a decision. Read more>>
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The Wichita Eagle
Teacher recruitment and retention through compensation topped a preliminary list of budget priorities presented to Wichita school board members. The Wichita school district would receive about $17 million more in general state aid next year under a new school finance formula approved by Kansas lawmakers. Read more>>
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The Oklahoman
A U.S. Supreme Court opinion that overturned a state policy in neighboring Missouri is not expected to affect Oklahoma. A majority of the nation's high court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the provisions in state constitutions that prohibit aid to parochial schools. Oklahoma voters declined to overturn the state's Blaine Amendment last fall. Read more>>
From DA Magazine The great majority of school violence prevention programs do not work. This is demonstrated by bullying continuing at unprecedented rates. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Baltimore Sun
The twin tragedies of deteriorating housing stock and sick children have undermined generations of children. Every year, more than half a million young children are poisoned by lead; they are seven times more likely to drop out of school than their peers. But we know that every dollar invested in lead poisoning prevention will return up to $221 to taxpayers. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Palm Beach Post
A new Florida law is about to give climate change-deniers and evolution skeptics weapons to heave against science in the state’s classrooms. The new law doesn’t mention specific topics, but it requires districts to set up a process to field complaints from residents about educational materials, including anything in the school library or on a reading list. Read more>>
Industry News
Discovery Education Kansas City Public Schools has chosen Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for use in all of its K5 classrooms. The district's educators will also have the opportunity to participate in professional development from Discovery Education’s faculty and community support from Discovery Education Community. Read more>>
Industry News
Lightspeed Systems Backed by a video database of more than 26 million videos, Smart Play opens educationally valuable videos to students while protecting them from explicit and graphic content. Available within Lightspeed Systems’ Web Filter and Relay for Chrome solutions, it utilizes machine-learning technology to analyze video content and make a selection. Read more>>
Industry News
Hoonuit Hoonuit is inviting educators to join its Learning Ambassador program. Learning Ambassadors will have access to a community of connected educators, and also be recognized for what they do to support learners. Hoonuit will also spotlight various ambassador presentations, shared resources, blog posts and more. Read more>> View more news at District Administration's PR Portal
People Watch
The Mercury News
Mary E. Streshly will succeed retiring Superintendent James Lianides as the new education leader of the California high school district. Streshly has been assistant superintendent for educational services in the Campbell Union High School District. Read more>>
People Watch
WKBN
The Ohio school district's school board hired Interim Superintendent Peter Pirone, Jr. as its new superintendent. Joseph Nohra was superintendent until January when he took a job with Youngstown City Schools. He has since moved on to be the superintendent of Liberty Schools. Read more>>
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The Westerly Sun
Mark Garceau, who has been the superintendent of Massachusetts' Oxford Public Schools since 2014, has been named as Westerly’s new superintendent of schools. He is replacing Superintendent Roy Seitsinger Jr. Read more>> |
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