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An Idaho Senate committee voted to approve new school science standards as is and not delete any parts. Idaho had been the only state in which legislators had successfully removed references to climate change from school science standards. The vote ends that distinction for the state. Read more>>
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Teachers in all of the state's 55 counties are participating in the planned two-day walk-out, and a group marched to the capitol building in Charleston. They plan to sit in the gallery during legislative sessions. Others are gathering outside the full galleries and continuing their protests. Read more>>
Educators School Safety Network says it recorded about 50 threats a day on average since last week's school shooting as compared to the previous average of about 10 threats a day. Violent incidents or threats have occurred in 48 of the 50 states so far this school year. Read more>>
Capital News Service and Associated Press via WJLA
Virginia's Senate Education and Health Committee voted in favor of a bill that would bar schools from giving students a hand stamp or wristband when their lunch account is empty, or ask students to do chores or throw away their meal if they cannot pay. Read more>>
Average public school teacher salaries in Louisiana finally reached the regional average in 2007. But now teachers are paid $1,705 less than their peers in the region, another casualty of Louisiana's cycle of budget problems. Read more>>
Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star
A judge won't delay deciding whether the state is violating constitutional requirements to adequately fund school capital needs while lawmakers decide what—if anything—they are going to do about the problem. The judge is still weighing arguments that there is no legal basis for the lawsuit. Read more>>
Elyse Doti Cohen and Matthew Pearson
In 2014, the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Leadership created the New Principal Support (NPS) program to reduce turnover and help experienced principals grow. Read more>>
Smoking in the bathroom has returned with a twist at some Chicago-area high schools, where educators say they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of students caught vaping on campus recently. Teens use devices that range from a JUUL to e-cigarettes, which resemble highlighter markers or oversized lipsticks. Read more>>
In the abstract, adding armed staff to schools does seem as if it could help curtail mass shooting incidents. Not prevent them, but ending mass shootings faster. But what does it mean in economic terms for one out of every five teachers to be prepared to engage with an armed individual intent on murdering students at a school? Read more>>
Education schools are now training teachers how to deal with an active shooter. One expert says it hasn't deterred teachers from applying, but it has changed the profession, for better or worse. If we get to the point where we were arming teachers, then we would see people leave in a great amount. Read more>>
Many parents are surprised to see a flood of projects and homework sent home with their kids starting as early as kindergarten. The problem? There is very little evidence to suggest that homework is anything more than a hassle when it’s assigned to young children. Read more>>
District Administration Survey
The growth mindset focuses on all learners’ ability to increase their intelligence with the right educational guidance. DA wants to interview district leaders who have adopted this philosophy in their districts, and how it is impacting teachers, staff and students. Contact us>>
National Math + Science Initiative
The National Math and Science Initiative has secured a $6.1 million grant to train and drive retention of outstanding math, science and English teachers in two of Georgia’s largest school districts. Read more>>
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Vicki Brunn has been hired as Van Wert City Schools' superintendent. She was most recently the superintendent at Central Local Schools in Ohio. Brunn will replace Superintendent Staci Kaufman. Read more>>
The New York district picked Tony Giannicchi, who currently serves as principal of the Cattaraugus-Little Valley High School. He will replace Mark Ward, who has been serving as interim superintendent since former Superintendent Karen Geelan resigned last fall. Read more>>
Rydell Harrison was appointed as the Connecticut district’s new superintendent. He is currently an assistant superintendent in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District in North Carolina. Harrison will be replacing Superintendent Bridget Carnemolla. Read more>>
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