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The $1,173,000,000 budget is less than the year before—shrinking by about one percent. Once faced with a nearly $30 million budget deficit, new interim Superintendent Keith Posley is keeping the cuts out of the classroom but plans to cut administrative jobs. Read more>>
Save your district time and money while removing the stress of implementing routing software with Wayfinder from Transfinder. Download Wayfinder today, and start routing and tracking your fleet in record time with a new low-cost GPS solution. Read more>>
In the race for state superintendent of public instruction, standard party affiliations don’t much matter. The two major players here are teachers unions and charter schools—and their big spending tends to blur a clear picture of the front-runners. Read more>>
The U.S. Department of Education issued a Project School Emergency Response to Violence grant, given to school districts nationwide after traumatic events, as part of the federal response response to the May 18 shooting at Santa Fe High School. Read more>>
The Texas district is working harder than ever to enroll students because they've lost so many to charter schools or other districts, especially in Southwestern Dallas. Dallas ISD is offering new programs, including dual language, and those focused on law, STEM or the arts. Read more>>
The Chicago Public Schools’ facilities chief is out in the wake of a scandal over filthy schools. Leslie Fowler had led the district team responsible for dealing with the dirty conditions found in 91 of 125 schools in a series of “blitz” inspections last winter. Read more>>
New Jersey's most powerful state lawmaker has a new plan to fix unfairness in the state's school funding and says he's willing to risk another dramatic state government shutdown to make it happen. State Senate President Stephen Sweeney unveiled what's sure to be a controversial proposal. Read more>>
Superintendent Tiffany Anderson, who lives more than 60 miles from her office, arrives at Topeka Public Schools every day at 5:30 a.m. and leaves at 7 p.m., so she can spend more time getting to know the district. Read more>>
Parents let schools teach the ABCs, but what about "the birds and the bees"? A dangerous misstep school districts can make is not informing and including them as key partners in the rearing of healthy young people. Parents especially matter in sex education. Read more>>
In the waning days of the legislative session, lawmakers pushed through measures aimed at addressing the funding needs of transportation, public education and more. However, this year’s legislative outcomes demonstrated a disappointing lack of commitment to finding long-term solutions. Read more>>
We must focus on empowering kids to accept responsibility for their actions. Kids should feel safe at school, and that takes commitment on the part of everyone. Continuing to focus on gun control, arming teachers and better mental health practices will have positive implications. But better parenting and more attention on fixing this problem proactively at home will have greater implications. Read more>>
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PREPWORKS/ECS Learning Systems/STAAR MASTER
Asteria Education, Inc.'s acquisition of PREPWORKS adds personalized learning to ECS Learning Systems’ approach to its test preparation offerings. It also expands PREPWORKS’ Learning Positioning System, currently focused on seventh to twelfth grade end-of-course tests, into the lower grades. Read more>>
The $26 million elementary school includes a central common area containing nearly 1,000 cubbies, designed by Scranton Products, for students to individually store books and belongings, including wet winter boots and snow gear. Read more>>
BloomBoard/iLearn Collaborative
BloomBoard announced a new partnership with iLearn Collaborative to launch a new micro-credential program that covers flipped learning, station rotation, gamification, authentic project-based learning assessment, and student choice and agency. Read more>>
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South Dakota Secretary of Education Don Kirkegaard has served as secretary since December and is a former superintendent of the Meade School District. He has accepted a position as superintendent of schools for the West Bend School District in West Bend in Wisconsin. Read more>>
The Connecticut district chose Anna Cutaia to replace Elizabeth Feser as the new Milford superintendent of schools. Cutaia has served as the superintendent of schools for Regional District 14 for the past four years. Read more>>
Shannon Bisgard, the associate superintendent at the Linn-Mar school district, has been tapped as the district’s new superintendent. He will succeed Superintendent Quintin Shepherd, who is leaving for the superintendent’s job in Victoria, Texas. Read more>>
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