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The U.S. Department of Education will visit a dozen Texas school districts this month to examine practices for identifying and educating students with disabilities. The state has come under scrutiny after a report showed that the Texas Education Agency had mandated that districts keep special education enrollment at or below 8.5 percent. Read more>>
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A proposed bill that would allow large K8 elementary districts in Montana to vote to create K12 districts was passed out of the Senate. It would permit several elementary school districts’ taxpayers to vote on whether they want to set up their own high school districts. Currently, this is prohibited by state law. Read more>>
House Bill 151 is on its way to the House floor for a vote. The bill, which excludes traditional and magnet schools, will ensure students can enroll in the school they live closest to. Under the current system, parents have a cluster of schools to choose from based on where they live, which can translate into more than a 30-minute bus ride for some students. Read more>>
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Making experiential learning with 3D printing DA Special Report: Makerspaces
Students in Missouri school experiment with prototyping and develop problem-solving skills with Dremel 3D printer. Read more>>
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Lead showed up in almost half of 40,000 school taps tested in Massachusetts, according to a new report. The report, which examined lead issues in schools in 16 states, concludes that current Massachusetts laws are not strong enough to protect children from lead in school drinking water. Read more>>
A bill authored to determine the level of participants in Indiana pre-K programs passed the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development. The bill would require the state to conduct a survey to determine how many four-year-old Indiana students were enrolled in pre-K during the 2015-16 school year. Read more>>
School choice aids and abets segregation—or so goes the logic of many of the policy’s loudest critics. But a study recently published provides evidence to the contrary. In Louisiana, an initiative reduced segregation in the education system, but the families who took advantage of the program did not experience the newfound integration. Read more>>
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Gauging the danger schools face
Los Angeles USD and the New York City Department of Education both received electronic bomb threats on December 15, 2015. LAUSD called off school. New York students remained in class. Which district made the right call? Read more>>
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While graduation rates are up and the need for remedial work in community colleges is down, too many Tennessee graduates are not ready to pursue post-secondary educations. With more careers requiring post-secondary education, school systems need to provide better guidance to students—at the very least make sure they take required classes—so they are prepared for the future. Read more>>
As we work toward increasing general education funding in Pennsylvania, it is important that this does not come at the expense of cyber charter schools. Many times cyber schools enroll students who can no longer be properly served by their home district for a variety of reasons. Read more>>
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While parents qualify if they have a child who is disabled, is from a low-income family, lives in a foster home or has a parent in the military, lawmakers want to expand the voucher program beyond that. Yet the voucher program already lacks serious accountability. Read more>>
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Wayside Publishing has just released a new Spanish-language learning series for levels 1, 2, 3 (novice-low to intermediate-low) with EntreCulturas: Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures. This series for middle and high school students focuses on teaching intercultural communicative competence with activities, student portfolios and resources. Read more>>
Penn Foster Education Group
Penn Foster Education Group debuted the Penn Foster Experience, a competency-based mobile learning platform that integrates self-paced learning and adaptive feedback to allow faculty and administrators to focus on helping students build career-ready skills with webinars, peer-to-peer discussion, and access to personal success coaches, teaching assistants and faculty. Read more>>
ClassLink announced a new single sign-on connection to Edmodo, a free online classroom management platform. Edmodo will also incorporate ClassLink OneRoster, giving Edmodo schools the ability to instantly create class rosters for their classes. Read more>>
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Champaign Unit 4 School District has named Susan Zola as the district's new superintendent replacing the current superintendent who is retiring. She started working for Unit 4 in 1990 and is currently is the assistant superintendent for achievement curriculum and instruction. Read more>>
The Delaware County Daily Times
The Pennsylvania district's school board voted to appoint Dan Nerelli as the new superintendent. He has been serving in an acting role in the positions since September. A 15-year employee with the district, Nerelli has been the assistant superintendent of personnel the last seven years, working under his previous superintendents Lou DeVlieger and Rick Dunlap Jr. Read more>>
Shade Gilbert was hired as the Arkansas district's superintendent, replacing Interim Superintendent Robert Stewart. Gilbert is currently the principal of grades nine through 12 in the Nemo Vista School District. Read more>>
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