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Black plaintiffs in a 52-year-old desegregation lawsuit have asked judge to reconsider her order that would allow an Alabama town to form its own school system despite her own finding that the city had racist motives for the move. Read more>>
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The lone finalist to become superintendent of Oregon's largest school district, Atlanta's Donyall Dickey, will not assume the job, putting the district in the difficult position of potentially lacking a leader for next school year. Read more>>
Parents streamed inside a Knoxville High School to hear from Knox County officials and mental health professionals about a series of suicides that claimed the lives of three Farragut students this semester. Read more>>
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Groundbreaking digital citizenship
Most districts teach digital citizenship to show students how to behave responsibly online. We want to hear about the most innovative approaches that alert students to cyberbullying, internet predators and sharing posts that won't ruin their chances of getting into college. Please follow the link to connect with us. Read more>>
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Leon County has received refugees mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria, countries ravaged by war. Some of these children have endured considerable trauma, including having witnessed violence against their own parents and living on close to nothing in refugee camps. Read more>>
Associated Press via ABC News
Puerto Rico is closing 184 public schools in a move expected to save millions of dollars amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus to the U.S. mainland in the past decade, officials said Friday. Read more>>
Right now, schools are asked to have parents approve their child's gender identity with the district first before they can play on the corresponding sports teams. A new proposal would advise schools to let students make that decision for themselves. Read more>>
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The rates of teens getting pregnant or contracting sexually transmitted diseases are far higher in Niagara Falls than the state average. Niagara Falls teenagers have identified a place where they can go to help curb those high rates—their classrooms. But they're not satisfied with what they have been hearing there. Read more>>
An estimated 460 middle- and high-school students in Fairbanks and North Pole walked out of their classes Friday afternoon to rally against proposed cuts to education funding, District staff described the walkout as peaceful, organized and unprecedented. Read more>>
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The high school graduation rate is up more than 20 points since 2005. The graduation gap between white and black or Hispanic students, while still significant and troubling, has narrowed. But school choice has not delivered on a central promise: to give every student a real chance to attend a good school. Read more>>
When a judge ruled that the predominantly white Alabama city of Gardendale can secede from the majority black Jefferson County to form its own school district, the decision paved the way for the eighth such secession of wealthier and whiter municipalities in the state since 2000. Read more>>
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It’s been almost three years since Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a controversial plan through the Legislature that, under the right conditions, would force some school districts to spend when they would rather save — and district leaders across California howled in protest. Read more>>
Associated Press via Minneapolis Star Tribune
Thousands of parents each year clash with their children's school districts over the level of special education services. In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling seen as empowering parents, some are expecting only more challenges as cash-strapped schools are called upon to meet higher standards. Read more>>
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Connecting LETRS to the Classroom is a series of 15 one-hour online sessions that focuses on effective classroom reading instruction for teachers. Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction is professional development for K3 reading teachers. Read more>>
Mathway, LLC's flagship product is now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Korean. Hindi, Japanese, German and French are planned for availability in late spring. Mathway's AI provides an alternative to traditional tutoring, allowing students to type their math problems and receive instant solutions. Read more>>
Epiphany Learning has acquired My Learning Collaborative Solution, a customized education platform that allows classroom teachers to continuously group and regroup students and competencies based on progress. Read more>>
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