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A provision tucked into the Senate budget would go beyond tuition vouchers to provide debit cards to parents to pay for school costs for students with disabilities. Parents would get up to $9,000 a year on the card; they could use the tax-free money to pay for everything from tuition and books to tutoring and school transportation costs. Read more>>
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A Senate committee passed the House’s major school finance reform bill, after adding a controversial provision subsidizing private school tuition for special needs students—a move unlikely to go over well in the House. Read more>>
School officials can search students’ bags on school property without first obtaining warrants, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled. Students have a diminished expectation of privacy at school because school officials have an obligation to keep them safe, the court concluded. Read more>>
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Paul Tough discusses how to overcome stress
In his previous book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, journalist Paul Tough looked at how non-cognitive personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in children’s success. Read more>>
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The Topeka Capitol-Journal
Inspired by the Mercury 7 astronauts, the Kansas Education commissioner wants seven school districts to participate in a major redesign of their systems based on the state board of education’s “Kansans Can” vision. Read more>>
For the first time in the history of Missouri’s current school funding formula, the state will be able to say it is fulfilling its financial obligation to public schools. But reaching that goal also required a kind of legislative short cut—a change approved last year that drastically reduced the price of the plan. Read more>>
In 2005, 28.5 percent of students surveyed reported experiencing at least one form of bullying. By 2014, that had dropped to 13.4 percent. But even though reality got brighter, young people's view of their schools remained partly cloudy at around 50 percent. Read more>>
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Despite licensure requirements that serve no pragmatic purpose, Colorado schoolteachers are coerced into forking over enormous sums and diverting considerable amounts of classroom time in order to qualify for, purchase and maintain credentials regarded as meaningless by the same government that issues them. It’s high time to liberate educators. Read more>>
We're uncertain how much sales and income taxes would have to be increased to compensate for the loss of property tax revenue. Elimination would help retirees on fixed incomes and encourage young people to buy a house. But there’s also no guarantee that landlords, given the property tax break, would pass the savings along to renters. Read more>>
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Amid the current teacher shortage and debate regarding maintaining a world language graduation requirement, something is being missed. An investment in language immersion programming in our elementary schools offers the possibility for students to gain real fluency in another language while not sacrificing the content they are expected to master through K12. Read more>>
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The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) implemented the online English Learners solution from Middlebury Interactive Languages, now part FuelEd. Starting this spring, approximately 1,000 secondary EL students spanning 12 high schools, eight middle schools, five charters schools and the USBE’s Refugee Educational Training Center as part of a blended learning model. Read more>>
Clever and Istation will work together to ensure that Istation's educational technology customers have access to Clever's web-based platform, including single sign-on capabilities and secure data integrations. Read more>>
Intended to be integrated into school and district professional learning, each Equity Sims simulation places the users—principals, principal supervisors, or leadership coaches—into life-like situations that push them to consider what they would do in this simulated scenario, and to reflect on practices they have in place in their own schools. Read more>>
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Hancock County's board of education voted to hire Timothy Woodward to take over for retiring Superintendent Kathy Kidder-Wilkerson. Woodward has served as the superintendent of Calhoun County Schools since 2014. Read more>>
The Olean City School District Board of Education has offered Rick Moore the position of superintendent, replacing Superintendent Colleen Taggerty, who it retiring. Moore has been the superintendent of Belleville Henderson CSD in Jefferson County for the last 10 years. Read more>>
The Holton Public Schools Board of Education chose Adam Bayne to be the Michigan district's next superintendent. Currently the principal of Holton Middle School and High School, Bayne is replacing Jason Kennedy, who accepted the position of superintendent at Ludington Area District Schools. Read more>>
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