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There is a massive data breach involving the personal information of students involved in the Florida Virtual School program. The breach may have impacted more than 368,000 current and former students and up to 2,000 teachers at the school. Read more>>
Researchers analyzed the reading records of more than 9.4 million students across the United States to discover their favorite books, factors that drive reading growth and trends in nonfiction reading. Download the free report to get insights into student reading trends. Read more>>
Under current law, a child’s primary caregiver can administer medical marijuana in a nonsmokeable form to a student at school. The new bill would allow for a school nurse to also administer medical marijuana to a student at school if the student has a medical marijuana registry card. Read more>>
Indiana's school voucher system continues to grow, with the state spending $153 million for the 2017-18 academic year—a record for the program—to help more than 35,000 students attend private schools. A report shows a 3.4 percent increase over the previous year in the number of students taking part. Read more>>
The White House committed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but it backed off President Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age to purchase some guns to 21 years old from 18 years old. Read more>>
As part of a plan announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department will prioritize grant money to local law enforcement agencies that want to add school resource officers. Read more>>
There’s nothing like the sights and sounds of a live production. But can attending a theater performance improve early literacy skills? That’s what researchers at Purdue University hope to learn as part of a new research partnership involving 10,000 children from 116 schools across the country. Read more>>
Every professional at Knob Noster Public Schools takes seriously our role in educating children of our armed forces. Read more>>
When you learn about successful principals, you keep coming back to the character traits they embody and spread: energy, trustworthiness, honesty, optimism, determination. We went through a period when we believed you could change institutions without first changing the character of the people in them. But we were wrong. Read more>>
Still, what may be most remarkable—and promising—about these new teenage activists is not what separates them from one another, but what binds them together. They are browner, greener and queerer than any American generation before them. And when they stick up for themselves, they are sticking up for one another. Read more>>
The state has little to show by the way of public school finance reform as we approach the second anniversary of a Texas Supreme Court ruling that found the system deeply flawed but constitutional. There is simply no cost savings when the taxpayers have to vote to impose a higher tax on themselves to make up the difference. Request an invitation>>
Scholastic debuted Scholastic Edge, an intervention program that incorporates leveled books and targeted instructional strategies for teachers to support striving readers in grades K6 while keeping them in the classroom. Read more>>
Funds For Learning has added a suite of new services. My E-rate Guides brings monthly online learning events, a community Q&A forum, an on-demand archive and hourly consulting opportunities to applicants as they navigate the federal E-rate funding program. Read more>>
Flipped Learning Global Initiative
The Flipped Learning Global Initiative, a worldwide coalition of educators, researchers, technologists, professional development providers and education leaders, announced the first 19 K12 and higher education adopters of the Flipped Learning International Training Standards. Read more>>
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The superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, Sara Shubel, is retiring at the end of the school year. She has led the Michigan district for 12 years. Read more>>
Kevin Lein will be the new head administrator for Carroll CSD. He currently works as the regional director for Prairie Lakes Education Agency in Pocahontas and served as a high school principal in Harrisburg, South Dakota prior to moving to Iowa. Read more>>
Laramie County School District 1 Superintendent John Lyttle has announced that he will retire the end of June. He had a 41-year career with the district, working as a teacher, district art coordinator, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent of human resources and superintendent for the past three years. Read more>>
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