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The Sacramento Bee
The children of deported adults could continue to go to school in California under a bill state lawmakers sent to Gov. Jerry Brown. State law currently requires students between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend public school in the district where their parent or legal guardian resides. If parents are deported, their children often follow. Read more>>
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AL.com
Beleaguered Alabama superintendent Michael Sentance resigned, a little more than a year after taking office and after a tumultuous, months-long battle with state board of education members. Read more>>
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The Washington Post
Eighty-six percent of schools in Virginia were fully accredited this year, marking a five-point rise in the number of schools that met the state’s benchmark for student achievement over the previous year. All the schools in 65 of the state’s 132 school districts were fully accredited. Read more>>
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New York Daily News
Calling schools “the breeding ground” for dangerous gangs like MS-13, Gov. Cuomo announced state police will be going into schools to combat the problem. “Gang prevention officers” from the State Police will be posted in the 10 Suffolk County schools believed to have the highest incidents of gang-related activity. Read more>>
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WSFA
The Alabama Education Association, Alabama’s teacher’s union, filed a complaint against Montgomery Public School intervention officials, and a judge granted them a temporary restraining order He granted the AEA's request for a restraining order to stop the reorganization of school system custodians without due process rights. Read more>>
From DA Magazine
Angela Pascopella A STEAM learning philosophy is just one of many trends that districts will incorporate more over the next five years, according to the latest New Media Consortium/CoSN Horizon Report. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
U.S. News & World Report
If these parents knew their children were at risk of falling off the path to success, they'd do everything they could to help their children. But so often, parents are starved of a critical power source: clear data and information on how their child's school is doing at preparing their kid (and every other student) for the next step. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Times-Tribune
Ban strikes and mandate last-best-offer arbitration in order to motivate the parties toward comprise rather than entrenchment. Create a statewide health insurance system for teachers. Reform the pension system. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
Washington Examiner
Nearly two-thirds of African-Americans surveyed support charter schools, as do 61 percent of Asian Americans and 58 percent of Latinos. Support was weakest among white respondents, but it still surpassed a majority at 55 percent. Support for vouchers is especially high when those vouchers are targeted to low-income students. Read more>>
Industry News
Carnegie Learning, Inc. Carnegie Learning, Inc. has acquired Globaloria, a provider of courses and pathways in learning computer science, applied software engineering and coding. Globaloria teaches students how to ideate, plan, research, design, prototype and program computational apps, games and simulations. Read more>>
Industry News
Accelerate Learning Inc. To help teachers and students transition to the new Iowa Science Standards Implementation Plan, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids and Central DeWitt CSDs have become the first in the state to implement the STEMscopes Iowa comprehensive online science curriculum from Accelerate Learning. Read more>>
Industry News
HP Designed for mobile, cloud-based learning and built to withstand the rigors of active students, HP debuted the HP Stream 11 Pro G4 Education Edition notebook. It has better drop and impact protection, a thinner chassis and incorporates a spill-resistant keyboard. Read more>> View more news at District Administration's PR Portal
Construction Watch
WRAL
The North Carolina county's voters will likely be asked to approve a nearly $1 billion bond referendum for school construction in 2018. Twenty-seven new schools are on the Wake County Public School System's project list, while dozens of other schools will undergo renovations in the next seven years. Read more>>
Construction Watch
San Francisco Chronicle
The California district's school board took a big step toward building apartments for some teachers and their classroom aides. It voted to enter into an agreement with the city's office of housing and development to pursue the construction of up to 150 units. Read more>>
Construction Watch
Providence Journal
An independent analysis commissioned by the state calls for at least $627.5 million worth of urgent repairs to make the schools healthy and safe, and up to $2.2 billion make facilities energy-efficient, technologically current and full of sunshine and fresh air. Read more>> |
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