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The Illinois public school system has hired a retired canine handler to regularly search middle and high schools for drugs, bombs and guns, a move school officials say will serve as a deterrent to bringing contraband into the buildings and possibly avoid an evacuation when a bomb threat is received. Read more>>
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The roles of educators are shifting as instructional practices advance, schools more actively support the students’ social-emotional development and new technology is integrated. Whether you’re a superintendent, central office administrator, principal or teacher, please follow the link to tell us how your role is changing. Your input may be included in our January 2018 Look Ahead issue of DA. Contact us>>
The most recent penny-pinching emergency for Oakland USD is a $15.1 million deficit in this year’s budget that will require schools and the central office to cut costs, including laying off employees. Read more>>
A Brooklyn state senator is sounding the alarm after another attempted school shooting to push his bill that would have armed NYPD cops outside every school in New York City. With more than 1,000 school buildings, the cost would run into the tens of millions of dollars. Read more>>
Could Eastern Kentucky University’s semi-private Model Laboratory School become Kentucky’s first charter school? The university's board of regents passed a resolution allowing the administration to submit an application for the Mode university laboratory school to become a charter school. Read more>>
The state's Department of Education is trumpeting an all-time high state graduation rate of 84.6 percent in a new set of report card data. But opponents of South Carolina's new high school grading scale, which lowered the minimum passing grade from a 70 to a 60 starting in the 2016-17 school year, are highly skeptical. Read more>>
In a world where everything is hackable and nothing off limits, cyber criminals are now targeting schools, stealing student data and holding it for ransom. After a rash of attacks across the country, the FBI is asking school districts to make cyber security a priority. Read more>>
Implementing inquiry-based science is one approach to developing critical thinking and personalizing instruction for students by addressing the preconceptions that they bring with them to the classroom. Read more>>
School fire drills became popular decades ago after several deadly fires triggered changes in safety codes. Today, we are preparing for something different: mass shootings. Two thirds of schools conduct active-shooter exercises and nearly all of them have a plan if a shooter comes into the school, a survey found. Read more>>
The problems with education in Michigan go well beyond the urban districts such as Detroit. Suburban and rural districts are also vastly underperforming their peers in other states. We are not preparing our students to become productive members of the workforce. Lack of skilled workers will mean slower economic growth and fewer opportunities in the state. Read more>>
The Delaware Department of Education has taken an important step by promulgating an amendment that provides more specific guidance for school districts and charter schools on creating a school environment that is free of discrimination. For the first time, this guidance includes protections for transgender students. Read more>>
The Forte Data Glove is a fully featured, one-size-fits-all, affordable data glove to incorporate haptics, wireless technology, and accurate rapid sensing for gaming and augmented/virtual reality environments. Read more>>
HITN Learning and Madrid-based production house Ánima Kitchent have reached an agreement to include preschool series Cleo & Cuquin in an early literacy initiative to help kids from transcultural homes. Product plans include a series of mobile apps and hands-on kits featuring bilingual educational content. Read more>>
Immersed Games has launched a new school-based version of their STEM online game, Tyto Online. Tyto Online for Schools offers a set of teacher tools to support usage in the classroom. In the game, students complete quests and activities following an inquiry-based learning model. Read more>>
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Building additional schools and pushing for more up-to-date, efficient and innovative design proposals is under review by a state panel charged with examining school construction. Today, an estimated 65,297 students in Maryland public schools are in temporary classrooms. Read more>>
The West Virginia School Building Authority's finance director expects to have about $51 million to distribute to public school construction and renovation projects in this year’s “needs” grant cycle. But 28 county public school systems have asked for a total of $105 million. Read more>>
Texas voters made a strong push for public education facility investment, with approvals in metro Houston of $2.7 billion for schools in eight bond packages, about $1.1 billion in Austin and nearly $750 million in Fort Worth. In North Carolina, several counties' voters endorsed a $922 million school bond issue. Read more>>
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