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Gov. Mark Dayton is calling for $138 million in emergency funding for Minnesota schools as close to 60 districts across the state grapple with budget shortfalls. The proposal would increase the state's per-pupil funding formula by 2 percent. Read more>>
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Thanks to the superior management capabilities and the minimal amount of time spent managing, troubleshooting or configuring Meraki hardware, CR Hiestand, a network and systems administrator at Reading School District, has more time to make classrooms 21st-century learning centers. Read the case study to learn more. Read more>>
New York lawmakers introduced bills that would prohibit school districts from using the grade 3-8 math and English exams from being used to rate teachers and principals. The evaluations help, in part, to determine which teachers are granted tenure protections. Read more>>
The Dallas ISD is facing declining enrollment and increasing property values. The combination is setting the Texas district up for "recapture", which means it will owe the state a projected $40 million next year. Nearly 500 teachers received letters saying they were in "excess", and their jobs were no longer available. Read more>>
Nearly two-thirds of public secondary schools had sworn law enforcement officers on site in the 2015-16 school year, up from 58 percent a decade earlier. Yet the presence of sworn officers varied considerably by factors including school size and the specific times the officers were present, according to a federal report. Read more>>
In a close vote, the Tennessee district's board of education approved a budget that allows Project GRAD, magnet school programs, and the gifted and talented programs to continue—with revisions—for the 2018-19 school year. Read more>>
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The negotiations call for putting $273 million into the $10.4 billion spending plan for the coming year specifically for teacher pay hikes. But unlike the governor's original proposal, each school district will get its share as a bulk dollar amount. Board members are then left to decide how to divide it up. Read more>>
District leaders have taken a wide range of responses to curb the alarming increase in students’ use of vaping devices and e-cigarettes. Read more>>
Businesses want employees who ask great questions, not provide formulaic answers; they want people who challenge conventional thinking instead of jumping through hoops. Our schools need this perspective as they shape students’ learning experiences. Read more>>
A new report honed in on a discipline disparity between black girls and their peers: dress codes. Schools should not be a place where societal prejudices and oppressions are re-enacted. When girls are taken out of class for violations, it sends a message that someone else’s perception of her body is more important than her education. Read more>>
It has been called the "Teachers’ Spring", with educators from five states staging an unprecedented wave of protests demanding increases in pay and school budgets. The protests by the nation’s teachers, more than three-quarters of whom are women, mark the first statewide walkouts since the 1990s. Read more>>
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The MimioFrame touch board kit is a front-of-classroom interactive solution that turns conventional whiteboards into touch boards in less than 15 minutes. The ProColor 490 Touch Table enables up to four students to work on interactive lessons and can also be used to develop fine motor skills in special needs classrooms. Read more>>
Toptal, a global network of engineers, designers and finance experts, has launched its on-demand service into the education and education technology markets, providing access to a network of talent. Read more>>
Workbench Education launched a multi-device application programming hub that will enable students and teachers to code multiple Bluetooth Low Energy products within a single browser-based Blockly canvas. The programming interface works with drones, blocks and robots from Workbench partners Parrot Education, SAM Labs and Sphero. Read more>>
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