TOP NEWS Providence Journal School districts would no longer be required to hire school resource officers at every school under the latest version of the school construction budget, a change that has now drawn support from the executive director of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs’ Association. Read more>> Sponsored Sponsored by PowerGistics Classroom Sets by PowerGistics are now available. Deploying devices in your classroom can take a substantial amount of time over the course of a year. Save class time by having multiple access points in your classroom for your devices. Find out which set is right for you with the Classroom Set Selection tool. Read more>> The Patriot-News The proposed 2018-19 state budget that increases education spending and requires no increase taxes or fees easily passed the state House of Representatives. It provides for a $100 million increase in basic education, to an amount now topping $6 billion. And it includes $70 million for school safety initiatives. Read more>> Chalkbeat New York A rule that would have allowed certain schools to certify their own teachers was blocked in court. The regulations eliminated the requirement that teachers earn master’s degrees and allowed certain charter schools to certify their teachers with minimal classroom instruction and practice teaching. Read more>> From DA Magazine Ariana Fine Up-to-date school floor plans and detailed images can be the difference between life and death when first responders are racing against time to find a shooting suspect or to rescue survivors after a natural disaster. Read more>> LA School Report About one-fourth of LAUSD's schools have just won the right to hire the best teacher for the job. The majority of district schools still need to follow a policy that forces principals to hire from a “must-place” list of “displaced” teachers. But that could soon change. Read more>> APM Reports After Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana schools switched to mandatory retention if students didn't passing the LEAP test in fourth or eighth grades. LEAP testing and mandatory retention resulted in thousands of students being forced to repeat grades. Many of those students who were held back are older now, and in high school. Read more>> Los Angeles Times The school board approved an $8.2 billion spending plan for the next school year as expected, but also pledged support for a comparatively tiny amount of new spending to give students free college admissions tests and college savings accounts. Read more>> Miami Herald More than 1,000 immigrant kids have been sent to a Miami-Dade County shelter without informing the schools. Since it is Superintendent Alberto Carvalho's responsibility to provide an education to all school-age children within his jurisdiction, he is asking the Homeland Security secretary what the district should do to educate those children. Read more>> OPINION NPR For 9- and 10-year-old children taking part in a study of brain development, greater social media use, such as using scrolling through Instagram and texting, was associated with some positive effects, including increased physical activity, less family conflict and fewer sleep problems. The children who had a higher use of general media were more prone to have worse sleep and more family conflict. Read more>> The Litchfield County Times Underneath the sudden controversy between Connecticut's governor and teachers over school discipline is the failure of government policy to diminish family poverty. No good will come of the discipline controversy because this underlying problem cannot be officially discussed. Read more>> The Hechinger Report The lack of affordable summer learning programs is troubling in Mississippi, where nearly 30 percent of children live in poverty and opportunities for summer learning vary greatly. Low-income students are especially at risk of the “summer slide.” The high cost of summer programs may help explain why so few students are enrolled. Read more>> From DA Magazine Ramon Namnun Incorporating high-quality resources to support ELL students can have a stark impact on whether they succeed. At High School of World Cultures, we have been able to pinpoint four best practices for evaluating ELL resources. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS Sergeant Laboratories, Inc The program now includes file audit and tracking for visibility into student files, Google Drive Materials and emails. Educators can view who has access to files, where and when they have been shared, and determine document permissions. The system also allows for auditing student email accounts for dangerous or inappropriate content. Read more>> Labster/zSpace High school students are gaining access to Labster’s game-based virtual simulations on zSpace’s augmented and virtual reality learning platform. The simulations are set to be rolled out to hundreds of thousands of high school science students across the world this fall. Read more>> The Verge Flipgrid, a video discussion platform used by more than 20 million teachers and students, has been acquired by Microsoft. It will now be made available to schools for free. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ CONSTRUCTION WATCH Manteca Bulletin Manteca USD is contemplating another school bond—possibly as much as $90 million—to have funds to tackle a list of upgrades centered primarily around athletics and physical education. Less than four years ago, voters approved a $159 million school modernization bond aimed at upgrading aging facilities. Read more>> Providence Journal House lawmakers approved a $9.6-billion state budget, which includes sending $250 million in proposed borrowing for school construction to voters for their approval on the November ballot. Read more>> The Denver Post State officials approved $447 million for 35 school construction projects, the largest amount ever awarded under a Colorado school building program that is partially funded by proceeds from legal marijuana sales. Read more>> |