Free lunch for all students at all NYC public schools

Free lunch will be offered to all students at all of the city's public schools. The program will provide an additional 200,000 students with free lunch. The district said it is now eligible to receive the highest reimbursement from the federal government through Community Eligibility Provision, making this new program possible. Read more>>

The Polk County School Board has adopted a budget of $1.4 billion for the 2017-18 school year, up from the previous year’s budget of $1.2 billion. The package includes a 2 percent increase in per-student funding for Polk County, now the seventh-largest district in the state. Read more>>

A state mandate to lower class sizes in kindergarten through third grade is meant to improve learning, but some schools in the North Carolina county are running out of room to make it work. Most Wake County elementary schools can make it happen, in some cases by holding multiple classes in a classroom, blending grades and increasing class sizes in upper grades. Read more>>

The state has reached one more settlement in the Idaho Education Network contract debacle—a $3.5 million agreement with the Federal Communications Commission. The latest settlement brings the state’s costs for the broadband project to $21.8 million. The settlement could finally close the books on the costly and convoluted Idaho Education Network dispute. Read more>>

Tens of millions of dollars in extra state funding that legislators approved this spring amid pressure from an ongoing school finance lawsuit could go toward raising teacher pay. However, there’s no statewide data yet on how much teacher compensation will grow compared to last school year. Read more>>

“I am not a distraction.” It’s the statement that’s become a rallying cry across the burgeoning movement against inequitable school dress codes. Recently, Evanston Township High School gained accolades for releasing an updated dress code that explicitly forbids body shaming and aims to diminish marginalization of students. Read more>>

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Three chronically underperforming Baltimore City Public Schools are now getting intensive, hands-on guidance from educators at a fourth district school that has achieved a dramatic turnaround. Read more>>

Social media has done much to connect us in this busy world, but unfortunately, it also has become a powerful purveyor of misinformation, from intentional hoaxes and fake news to more innocent mistakes that just take on a life of their own. That seemed to be situation at West Virginia's Spring Valley High School when rumors mushroomed into a student protest. Read more>>

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act will at least be less harsh, and under California’s new accountability system, there’s a lot more to rating a school than its scores on the annual statewide tests. But there are distressing signs that instead of returning to a common-sense middle ground on accountability, the education pendulum is swinging as far as possible in the other direction. Read more>>

Our schools must act decisively and urgently to (re)teach, model and encourage behavior that nurtures and maintains our most cherished individual and collective values of civility, diversity, equity, responsibility and freedom of expression that serve as the foundation of our democracy. The tools are available. It can be done. Read more>>

To continue building a solution that simplifies personalized learning, Renaissance adds Education.com as the newest member of the Renaissance Growth Alliance. Education.com’s digital resources, tools and learning materials will be available to educators through Renaissance Flow 360. Read more>>

Education Funding Partners' EFP adNet will integrate with West's SchoolMessenger Presence website platform and give its customers the optional ability to “turn-on” adNet and begin running ads from a proprietary, carefully vetted list of education-friendly brands. Read more>>

Through a new partnership, Val Verde USD educators will support the transition to Next Generation Science Standards by integrating Discovery Education’s Science Techbook, as well as Streaming Plus, into everyday science instruction districtwide. Read more>>

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The Kelso School Board was presented with an ambitious facilities improvement plan, one that would cost local taxpayers an estimated $87.5 million over 20 years. The plan proposes to build two new elementary schools, add new classrooms and upgrade school athletic facilities. It would also make districtwide safety and security improvements in all Kelso schools. Read more>>

An organization that runs youth programs, Capital Area Workforce Development, has received a $1 million grant from the United States Department of Labor to establish a youth work-training program. The program will offer construction-related education, on-the-job training and job placement help to 16-24 year-olds in areas of Raleigh with high poverty rates and youth unemployment. Read more>>

At a time of toxic national polarization, a Los Angeles success story 20 years in the making was recently completed, because people with different political perspectives worked together to accomplish a goal—repair schools and build new schools efficiently and cost-effectively for LAUSD’s students. Read more>>