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Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill that will allow insurance companies to contribute up to $2 million total to a nonprofit organization created by the state. The organization would disburse the funds to families with incomes up to 150 percent of the amount used to qualify for free and reduced price school lunch. Read more>>
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Following two failed attempts last year, voters in Delaware’s second-largest school district have approved a long debated tax hike. Some of the estimated extra $16.2 million coming in will go toward rehiring teachers cut loose when Christina School District’s referendum failed last year. Read more>>
Law enforcement officers in West Virginia now will be able to charge the owner of a vehicle with running school bus stop signs, regardless of who is driving the vehicle when it passes a sign. Read more>>
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Why aren’t more black students identified as gifted?
Black elementary school students are half as likely as their white peers to be assigned to gifted elementary programs in math and reading—even with comparably high test scores. But the racial gap in giftedness disappears when black students have a black teacher, according to a study. Read more>>
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Amid concerns over lead found in drinking water, several New Jersey lawmakers said they want to require all schools in the state to test water systems twice a year for lead and to provide $23 million to cover costs and any possible water filters. Read more>>
The high-stakes fight over lifting the state’s cap on charter schools has become highly racialized, making one of the most contentious political contests in Massachusetts’ recent history even more tense. The debate has raised uncomfortable questions about charter school discipline of African American children. Read more>>
School security officers outnumber counselors in four out of the 10 largest public school districts in the country. New York City, Chicago, Miami-Dade County and Houston schools all employ more security staff than counselors. In Houston, that means there’s only one counselor for every 1,288 students. Read more>>
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For the past three months, a former chef at one of the world’s best restaurants has traveled to 15 public school districts. Daniel Giusti, a Michelin-starred chef, has learned a lot about how schools can make lunches more appetizing, including hiring chefs to cook in school kitchens full-time. Read more>>
We can require that curricular materials be adaptive to individual ability and pacing rather than fixed based on grade or age. We can encourage local experimentation and sharing of successes and failures to accelerate discovery and adoption of scalable ways to implement student-driven, self-paced, multipathway educational experiences. Read more>>
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The school board in Loudoun County is slated to decide whether to reassign several hundred low-income students who now attend economically integrated schools to two high-poverty schools. Doing so would reverse its policy of socioeconomic integration and fly in the face of 50 years of research. Read more>>
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Think Through Learning/Think Through Math
The web-based instruction system has been chosen for the fourth and fifth consecutive years as the online math provider for the Texas SUCCESS program. Think Through Math will be available to students in third grade through algebra in all Texas public schools and open-enrollment charter schools through August 31, 2017. Read more>>
The free ChildsPass mobile and web application serves as a resource for parents to discover, schedule and pay for their children's extracurricular social, physical, creative and educational activities from one platform. Read more>>
Honeywell and NASA are supporting their STEM education program with the hip-hop educational experience FMA Live! Forces in Motion. The program made its return to the West Coast this month with plans to visit six states and perform at 40 public, private and military-connected middle schools. Read more>>
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The Kentucky district's board of education has voted to name Teresa Morgan as its new superintendent, replacing retiring Superintendent Nannette Johnston, who has been in the position for 10 years. Morgan is currently the director of elementary curriculum and instruction for Hardin County Schools. Read more>>
Doug Molloy, who has been principal of John C. Birdlebough High School in the Phoenix school district since 2007, will become superintendent of the Morrisville-Eaton school district. He replaces Michael Drahos, who is retiring at the end of the school year. Read more>>
Westfield Technical Academy Principal Stefan Czaporowski was named superintendent of schools, succeeding the retiring Suzanne Scallion. Czaporowski has served as the Massachusetts academy's principal since July 2012. Read more>>
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