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The House voted to provide the final legislative approval of a package of bills aimed at giving schools greater flexibility in meting out punishment to students—and ultimately cutting back on the number of kids expelled or suspended from Michigan schools. Read more>>
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The State Board of Education is holding off plan to enforce strict new graduation requirements for high school students. The change came when local school superintendents said nearly 30 percent of students may not make it. Read more>>
The Baltimore school system is facing a $129 million deficit in its current budget, city schools CEO Sonja Santelises told officials, the largest gap in recent years. She was not prepared to announce any staff cuts or budget cuts, cost-saving measures officials have employed in each of the past two years. Read more>>
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DA is taking a look at the services school districts provide to students who require special education in pre-kindergarten. How do the most effective programs work? How do districts work with community organizations? And, how do these services set students up for success in later grades? Please follow the link to connect with us for an interview. Read more>>
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A state representative is calling for random drug testing of Wisconsin high school students who are participating extracurricular activities or parking on school grounds. Read more>>
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A panel charged with examining ways to improve and simplify public education financing issued a report with 12 major recommendations, starting with using a single simplified formula for all public schools and allocating funds using a lump-sum formula. The council also recommends consolidating property tax rates and reducing reliance on property tax overrides. Read more>>
One of Ohio’s leading charter-school lobbying and advocacy organizations is disbanding after a decade of shaping the state’s charter-school policy. Some say its demise stems from Ohio’s poor charter-school record, which is causing national funders to pull their support. Read more>>
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Schools ride the next edtech wave
Hundreds of new technologies appear every decade, but only a few end up having a lasting impact on education. We pulled out District Administration’s crystal ball to forecast some of the major tech trends now gaining momentum. Read more>>
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It’s hard to deny the importance of building digital skills. But computers are not just productivity machines—they are also portals to distraction. There is the question of the teenage attention span: If fully-grown adults struggle to stay focused in front of a Web browser, how can we expect this of kids? Read more>>
Among high school girls ages 14-18, those who report and act on body image misperceptions are more likely to have had at least one drink in their life, and more likely to have engaged in episodes of heavy drinking than girls of the same age without body image misperceptions, a new study has found. Read more>>
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While there is growing political support for universal preschool, there is little serious discussion in the policy world about starting so much earlier. While elementary schools and K12 districts may not have the funding to run their own birth-to-5 programs, they can provide space for partner organizations to do that work. Read more>>
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The University of Florida joined with Promethean in announcing their collaboration on a novel, peer-coaching program to provide leadership development training to educators of Priority Improvement/Turnaround schools in Colorado. Read more>>
Working with partner Visual Learning Systems, Gale has incorporated hundreds of new educational videos covering energy, genetics and the Earth concepts essential to STEM learning, including the Kids InfoBits, Research In Context and Science In Context videos. Read more>>
The addition of thousands of science resources encompasses Next Generation Science Standards videos, games and assessments, including science videos and games from Scishow, CrashCourse, Veritasium and MinutePhysics. Read more>>
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The Maine Board of Education rejected a last-ditch effort by Portland officials to get a special dispensation for state school construction funds for renovations at two elementary schools, even though the schools just missed the cutoff for the current state funding cycle. Read more>>
Donations by developers for Santa Clara USD school construction are quietly setting new precedents in Santa Clara. Developer donations are one way to work around California's system of school funding. School districts receive about 40 percent of property tax revenues within its boundaries but, by state law, can't use that revenue for new school construction. Read more>>
Chicago Public Schools' plan to sell $500 million in bonds for construction projects won a rather rosy response from one Wall Street ratings agency, which concluded that tax money devoted to pay off the debt would protect bondholders should the district ever file for bankruptcy. Read more>>
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