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Resource officers in Florida, in large part, are paid for from a pool of money called Safe Schools, earmarked each year strictly for school districts to use on safety and security expenses. The state's 67 school districts this year are sharing $64.4 million, an amount unchanged for the past seven years. Read more>>
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By the end of the first day of the 2018 legislative session, state lawmakers had proposed three different constitutional amendments to tackle the deficits facing school funding. One bill would lower the amount of school funding that Wyoming provides to the level spent by neighboring states. Read more>>
A supervised exercise program that gets young children running and playing for an hour before school could make them happier and healthier, while also jibing with the needs and schedules of parents and school officials, according to a new study involving two dozen elementary and middle schools. Read more>>
A federal appeals court overturned a lower judge's decision that had allowed a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, to secede from the local school district, saying the plan's express purpose was to exclude black children. Read more>>
The General Assembly passed a bill primarily to address issues with a prior law that reduces K3 class sizes. But among measures tucked into the bill is a major change to the school choice program. The provision greatly expands eligibility for the state's new Education Savings Account. Read more>>
A new study concluded the implementation of California’s school finance reform, with money targeted to address the needs of students and local districts, is making a significant difference in student outcomes, narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students and increasing graduation rates. Read more>>
In Oakland USD, girls who were chronically absent and suspended frequently told researchers in a 2015 study that sexual assault and harassment were among the biggest barriers for them at school. Read more>>
The Vermont legislature appears to be seriously considering a dramatic change in how Vermont finances K12 education, replacing a significant share of people’s property tax bills with an income tax. But it does not address the more fundamental problem of why property taxes are so high. Read more>>
There's a massive amount of behavioral research on brain organization and brain development, which conclusively shows that skilled reading is associated with children's spoken language, grammar and the vocabulary they already know. It's about teaching kids the correspondence between the letters on a page and the sounds of words. Read more>>
President Trump just released his big plan to overhaul the country’s crumbling infrastructure. But his blueprint says nothing directly about repairing or replacing crumbling public schools in cities, suburbs and rural areas. Read more>>
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Through a new partnership, Schneider Electric will deliver Accelerate Learning’s STEMscopes PreK-12 curriculum and materials to districts as part of an energy savings performance contract. Read more>>
An agreement with Clever enables seamless rostering and single sign-on integrations for students and teachers, opening up access to Sumdog for schools with lower budgets. Read more>>
Facilitron, a cloud-based platform designed to help colleges and school districts manage, schedule, and rent school facilities, announced its no-cost solution to help schools recover costs, collect data, and manage public requests of gyms, theaters and classrooms throughout the district. Read more>>
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Now that a more than $1 billion school construction boom funded by coal mining has ended, Wyoming voters could soon be asked if they want to go back to using local tax revenue to pay for building schools. Read more>>
Richmond's City Council approved a proposal to fund construction of city schools by way of a meals tax increase. But the support means that $150 million for school facilities is available, leaving $74.8 million unaccounted for. Read more>>
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