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The Douglas County School District violated the U.S. Constitution when it raised money and supplies to support a Christian mission trip to Guatemala, according to a district court ruling. Read more>>
Does automating the workflow around processes—such as hiring, funding proposals, vendor management, capital expenditure requests, and maintenance and operational requests—actually help districts become more efficient? What processes are leading school districts automating? Read more>>
Members of a special Texas Senate committee devoted to preventing school violence acknowledged in a hearing the importance of school counseling and mental health care, but questioned whether it's financially feasible to expand those services statewide. Read more>>
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s framework for an ambitious universal pre-K program in his city is the latest in a widespread national push for high-quality early education that is being driven at the local level. Chicago would join cities such as New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, which are spearheading large-scale pre-K initiatives. Read more>>
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What’s in a name? Pronouncing students’ names correctly bolsters their sense of identity and boosts their sense of belonging. If your district has made this an area of focus, we’d like to interview you for an upcoming feature. Click here. Contact us>>
The Legislature approved a $41.88 billion compromise budget that includes a new “rural school aid” account with $1.5 million in additional funding for an estimated 62 rural school districts. Read more>>
Desperate for a new source of money after years of state cuts, the Palm Beach County School Board will ask voters to approve a new property tax adding $800 million to the district’s coffers over four years. The district, which has 189 schools, says the state is not offering enough money to comply with the new Stoneman Douglas law. Read more>>
Property owners in Miami-Dade County are one step closer to absorbing a four-year tax increase that would would support raising salaries for teachers and other instructional staff, like teachers’ aides and school psychologists, and hiring additional school resource officers. Read more>>
There are too many stories about gun accidents that might have been prevented if young people had been shown how to recognize gun danger and act appropriately. An initiative petition was filed to make firearms-safety instruction mandatory in all sixth-grade public schools in Oregon. Read more>>
Reducing the licensing requirements for full-time public school educators in Utah as a way of addressing a teacher shortage may be effective in the short term, but it could ultimately run counter to the objective of raising and maintaining overall quality in public education. Read more>>
While issues surrounding Medicaid dollars are not unfamiliar to Idaho’s public school districts and charter schools, the question of expanding Medicaid to the gap population does not give belly aches to education stakeholders. Districts heavily rely on Medicaid dollars to pay for medical services for qualified special education children. Read more>>
Dan Hamlin, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Paul E. Petersen have examined data to see what impact states lowering the bar on academic proficiency have had on student achievement. Read more>>
ConnexPoint is a payment platform that integrates easily to any system requiring payment collection—such as food service, athletics, arts, events, child care or registration—allowing parents and students to complete purchases from one central account. Read more>>
RealNetworks, Inc. announced the free and immediate availability of SAFR for K-12, an AI- and machine learning-based facial recognition solution to help enhance safety in over 100,000 K12 schools in the United States and Canada. Read more>>
Escape Technology/Digital Schools/Alpine Investors
In a partnership with Digital Schools, the Escape ERP software for K12 schools further expands its integrated suite of finance, payroll and human resource modules that manage critical budgeting and payroll processes. Read more>>
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Charleston County School District officials blame a hot South Carolina construction market for $29 million in cost overruns on four of their construction projects, including a much-anticipated new high school. Read more>>
New research on school construction found Minnesota’s prevailing-wage law resulted in more local hiring, higher pay and stronger apprenticeship programs. The researchers found those that paid the higher wages did not add to the overall cost of the projects because skilled workers were more efficient and made fewer mistakes. Read more>>
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