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The House Appropriations Committee approved its 2019 spending bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, after a marathon markup session dominated in part by discussion of the child separation crisis at the border. The bill’s overall spending level of about $177 billion is essentially the same as the current year. Read more>>
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township has introduced a K12 dual-immersion program that includes a research-based enrichment model of instruction. Read more>>
Michigan's largest school district is failing its special education students by not meeting their needs or identifying them as early as possible to provide necessary services, according to its superintendent and the early results of two audits. Read more>>
The Secret Service published a school safety guide, calling for creation of threat assessment teams that should include a variety of personnel. Those teams are then urged to meet to define concerning and prohibited behaviors, create a central reporting mechanism, determine the threshold for law enforcement intervention, and more. Read more>>
The push to change Ohio’s state report card system for schools continued to get louder this week, as a work group of state school board members and education advocates released their recommended changes. They suggested replacing A-F letter grades with language like “meets standards” or “exceeds standards.” Read more>>
The public should not see security camera footage that may shed light on what law enforcement officers did during the deadly Parkland school shooting, attorneys argued in state court. Releasing the footage could jeopardize the high school's video surveillance system and put students at risk, they stated. Read more>>
While other U.S. states see Virginia as a leader in school safety, the state still has work to do, members of a bipartisan General Assembly committee were told. While the state has a system apt at stopping high-level threats, schools want more training and want more synchronized coordination with emergency officials. Read more>>
Dismantling this kind of institutionalized racism will take decades, but education is the first step toward instilling tolerance and acceptance in our generation and the next. Raising a more tolerant population begins at the high school and even elementary level. Read more>>
As nascent voters flex their growing political muscle, the political powers-that-be will recognize that their views need to be respected and responded to. In that way, the emerging generation is poised to be an engine for real, lasting and much-needed political change. Read more>>
Disciplinary actions in schools often represent a missed opportunity, a new report finds. In many cases, the systems in place are purely reactive and lack a preventative component to address student behavior. Traditional systems do not consider what the child is experiencing in and outside of school that might affect student behavior. Read more>>
StorageCraft for Education handles the ever-increasing amounts of data that education organizations are grappling with today. Its built-in scale-out abilities accommodate future data storage requirements which avoids the pitfalls of upfront over-provisioning, and the need for costly and complex forklift upgrades later or the creation of numerous storage islands. Read more>>
Follett has acquired Fishtree, an adaptive learning platform that streamlines both the technical integration and educational adoption of personalized learning in school classrooms. The machine-based learning tools of Fishtree will be integrated within Follett’s Destiny content and resource management platform. Read more>>
Khan Academy Kids is an educational app for children ages two to five available free for download. It is a complete learning experience across multiple subjects that is aligned to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework for preschool-aged children and Common Core State Standards for kindergarten-aged children. Read more>>
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Wally Lis has been selected as superintendent of the Washington district. He is replacing Superintendent and Principal Dennis Johnson. For the last seven years, Lis has served as the superintendent of the Quilcene School District. Read more>>
Todd Martin will take over as Saydel CSD's superintendent, replacing outgoing Superintendent Doug Wheeler. Martin has 24 years of experience as an educator and currently serves as superintendent for the Baxter CSD. Read more>>
Peter Smith, Jamesville-DeWitt School District's assistant superintendent for educational services, will take over from Superintendent Alice Kendrick. Kendrick is retiring after 23 years as superintendent and 40 years with the district. Read more>>
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