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Calls are intensifying for a districtwide investigation into racial discord at all of Boston’s public schools as students come forward with stories of racial harassment beyond Boston Latin School. Read more>>
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The leader of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, a statewide organization of school directors, threatened to file a lawsuit against the state for breaching its contract to pay for a portion of construction costs. Read more>>
After months of debate, a compromise made by Iowa lawmakers means many schools have to make some changes. The Iowa House and Senate agreed on a 2.25 percent increase for schools for next school year. But each year the cost of running a school district goes up 3-4 percent with insurance, utilities and wages, several Iowa districts allege. Read more>>
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Washington state requires Native American curriculum
All K12 schools in Washington are mandated by a new state law to teach Since Time Immemorial, a curriculum that focuses on the history and culture of the state’s 29 federally recognized Native American tribes. All 29 Washington tribes contributed to the curriculum. Read more>>
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Superintendent Deborah Gist announced a reorganization proposal to eliminate or defund 172 administrative jobs across several district sites—while creating 66 new positions—for a savings of about $3.7 million. Read more>>
Lawmakers are drafting a bill that would allow charter schools to take over five of the state’s lowest-performing elementary schools. The bill’s main sponsor is championing the proposal, despite research showing a similar charter takeover in Tennessee had minimal impact on student performance. Read more>>
Students who attend charter high schools are more likely to graduate, go to college and stay in college than students who attend traditional public high schools, according to a new study on the effects of charter schools on earnings in adulthood. Read more>>
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A student support program that began in Minneapolis and has spread around the country is under new scrutiny in its home district after a 2015 district study found the program resulted in a modest decrease in dropouts. Read more>>
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Some in our society would like to force music out of education because adults who don't understand education feel that music is an expensive and unnecessary hobby. Music is both a physical discipline and a rigorous course of academic study, a field that simultaneously trains a child in math, language arts, coordination and cooperation. Read more>>
All schools have a student government, but the structure of authority remains in place. The student government generates ideas (maybe even funding) and submits these to the school leadership who make decisions about what will or will not be implemented. This is an important process, but one that does little to yield empathy or form new perspectives. Read more>>
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There is no good way to eliminate charter schools' self-selection bias except through the random assignment of students. Without doing a proper outcome evaluation, we can’t know whether specific charter schools are in fact doing better because of their instruction or they are doing better because of the self-selection. Read more>>
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LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc./VTech
The developer of educational entertainment for children is now officially an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of VTech following the completion of a two-step tender offer and merger for LeapFrog. Read more>>
Capstone's PebbleGo database is now available in Spanish. PebbleGo Animales features articles on more than 250 animals and their behaviors with Spanish text and read-aloud Spanish-language audio. Read more>>
The Blackboard K-12 New Learning Experience Platform—which combines multiple Blackboard products, integrations and professional services—integrates with hundreds of district technologies including the student information system, lunch menu, school calendar, payments processing and transportation services. Read more>>
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The Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield City School District officials ended a nationwide search for a top administrator by appointing Harry “Doc” Ervin, a Monterey County educator, as superintendent of the 30,000-student elementary district. Ervin is leaving a superintendent position at Greenfield USD. Read more>>
The Oregon district has chosen its current middle school principal and athletic director to succeed Steve Perkins as the Sutherlin School District’s next superintendent. Read more>>
Helena Public Schools Superintendent Kent Kultgen accepted the superintendent position with the Snohomish School District in Washington. Kultgen will be replacing the current Snohomish superintendent, William Mester, who has served in his position the past 14 years. Read more>>
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