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Top News Detroit Free Press Gov. Rick Snyder will appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court the ordered return of more than $550 million collected from school employees to fund retiree health care, despite Attorney General Bill Schuette's refusal to provide state attorneys to fight the case. Read more>> |
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HealthDay While clever marketing can steer kids towards junk food, a new study shows that creative advertising in schools can also prompt more kids to eat veggies. Read more>> WVTM School buses in Alabama may soon install exterior cameras to monitor for traffic violators. A new state law that took effect July 1 gives school districts the option of installing cameras. The goal is to track down drivers who blow past stop sign arms on school buses. Read more>> |
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From DA Magazine Zoology and botany magnet school comes to Miami-Dade County Ariana Fine Miami-Dade County’s BioTECH @ Richmond Heights—a conservation-biology-focused STEM high school that opened in 2014-15 with help from an $11 million federal grant—focuses on zoology, botany, genetics, ecology, chemistry and environmental sciences. Read more>> |
The Washington Post School districts across the country are adopting grading practices that make it more difficult for students to flunk classes, that give students opportunities to retake exams or turn in late work, and that discourage or prohibit teachers from giving out zeroes. Read more>> The Texas Tribune The state will divvy up more than $116 million among 578 school districts and charter schools to bolster high-quality pre-K programs. The funding will reach nearly half of the state's more than 1,200 school districts and charters. Read more>> Los Angeles Times A dispute over the state’s parent trigger law and control of a Los Angeles elementary school were resolved in a settlement with LAUSD and a group representing parents. Under the pact, operations at 20th Street Elementary School will be turned over to the nonprofit Partnership for Los Angeles Schools this fall. Read more>> |
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Opinion & Analysis U.S. News & World Report Teaching and learning, ostensibly the core functions of schools and school districts, are now just one among many important things we expect them to do. Why we do expect school districts to be great at complicated work like transportation and food as well as teaching? Read more>> The Fayetteville Observer All too often, financial interests and considerations drive education policies, practices and quality. We have built schools that are too large and feel more like places of teaching and testing than learning communities for students. Read more>> |
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Star-Telegram Currently, children living below the poverty line, children in the foster care system and the children of military families are eligible for public pre-K. We will spend far less on remediation of students in elementary and secondary grades, and even at the college level, if the program is expanded for more students to start out on grade level and stay there. Read more>> |
Industry News Scientific Learning Hermiston School District in Oregon has expanded its use of the Fast ForWord online reading intervention to all schools districtwide after two pilot schools saw average reading gains of one year in just 64 days of using the program. Read more>> Cree Cree is expanding its ZR LED troffer portfolio with the introduction of the new Cree ZR FD LED Series, a commercial spec-grade troffer that delivers up to 60 percent energy savings over fluorescent troffers. The troffer provides longevity with a 75,000-hour lifetime and payback in less than two years. Read more>> |
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