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Over a dozen current and former principals in the Detroit public school system have been federally charged in a conspiracy scheme involving more than $900,000 in kickbacks and bribes. Read more>>
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Legislation was passed by the House that would expand the current law to allow students in C, D and F school systems to cross district lines to attend charter schools without the approval of the local board. Read more>>
The Maryland Senate will finalize Gov. Larry Hogan’s $42 billion operating budget, after a few senators hammered out a compromise with member of the House of Delegates on scholarship help for private school students. Read more>>
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Calling all Districts of Distinction
District Administration's national recognition program honors school districts that lead the way with new ideas that work. Districts of Distinction recognizes established initiatives that are yielding quantifiable benefits, and that can be replicated by other districts. Apply for the next round before April 15. Read more>>
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A new report from the Comptroller's Offices of Research and Education Accountability examines the way virtual schools are funded in Tennessee. The report notes that virtual school performance may be affected by the number of students who enroll in virtual schools for short periods of time. Read more>>
A proposed plan would allow supporters to hang their names on Aspen's public school buildings—from classrooms and arenas to theaters—in exchange for large donations. The proposal aims to create a $15 million endowment that could deliver consistent annual funding to Aspen-area schools. Read more>>
Oklahoma City Public Schools and 47 other school districts sued in hopes of recovering millions in state aid leaders say was wrongly allocated for more than two decades. Attorneys asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to make the state Education Department collect overpayments to other districts and redistribute the funds to "underpaid" districts. Read more>>
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ESSA poses another challenge to Common Core
The push to establish national academic benchmarks may have been dealt yet another blow by the Every Student Succeeds Act. Nearly two dozen states began revising the Common Core after the new law reaffirmed their authority to create their own standards. Read more>>
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Things get especially complicated when interrogations take place in school, where students have fewer legal rights than in a police station. School officials do not need a warrant or probable cause to search a student’s locker or backpack, nor are they required to give a Miranda warning. Read more>>
Youth development has traditionally been viewed as a parallel (and separate) track to education. However, multi-disciplinary research tells us that young people need to make meaning of their experiences to build an integrated identity of who they are today and who they want to be, and to acquire new knowledge, skills, mindsets and values. Read more>>
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Maine's outstanding spending priorities, including education funding, should be rolled into a supplemental budget so that lawmakers can conduct a full accounting of the state’s resources, and decide, together and all at once, which are the state’s most pressing needs. Read more>>
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BoniO Inc.'s flagship PaGamO online social gaming platform has debuted in the U.S. The platform encourages students to build their own kingdom of knowledge, wealth and land by answering questions and solving mini-quizzes. Read more>>
ClassDojo is expanding beyond individual classroom communities, to connecting whole schools. For the first time, school leaders will be able to join ClassDojo, alongside all the teachers, parents and students in their school to safely and easily communicate with all parents in their school. Read more>>
The suite of ACT prep products offers a test prep guide and a crash course, both of which include in-depth reviews, hundreds of drills, multiple full-length practice exams and a corresponding teacher guide. Read more>>
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