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The House of Representatives passed a bill that would mandate local public schools set minimum pay for teachers at $40,000 annually by the 2022-23 school year. The minimum would then be raised commensurately with inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Read more>>
Authentic Spanish literacy lessons and assessments from Istation Español enhance learning with computer-adaptive activities that include Latin culture and literature. Plus, schools get the formative data that drives intervention and differentiates instruction. Learn more and request a free demo account. Read more>>
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a plan to make free full-day preschool available to all Chicago 4-year-olds within four years. It will get rolled out incrementally, starting with pupils from lower-income families in the upcoming school year. Read more>>
Gov. Kay Ivey, state Superintendent Eric Mackey and Alabama Law Enforcement Secretary Hal Taylor announced a program to authorize certain administrators to undergo training and have firearms stored on school campuses. Read more>>
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a 40-point school safety plan that touches on issues ranging from boosting law enforcement presence at schools to increasing social media monitoring to potentially prevent deadly shootings before they occur. Read more>>
The legislation being promoted in Montpelier would assemble a task force to examine curriculum in public schools across the state. The task force would then come back to the State Board of Education and recommend ways to make that curriculum more inclusive for people of color and other marginalized groups. Read more>>
A group of healthcare professionals will work with high-achieving teenagers with the goal of helping them gain acceptance to one of the nation's top-20 colleges or universities or a prestigious scholarship program. Read more>>
The latest technology can fill classrooms with movie theater-quality sound. Read more>>
A new study co-authored by researchers at Michigan State University and Case Western Reserve University found that "growth mindset interventions," or programs that teach students they can improve their intelligence with effort—and therefore improve grades and test scores—don't work for students in most circumstances. Read more>>
With newcomer students, teachers are hungry for anything that will help them make their curriculum more accessible to students who don’t have language skills yet, but desperately need them. A strategy idea is to marry the linguistics with subject matter content at every step to make the language relevant, while helping students learn science, math and other content. Read more>>
Sports provide a wealth of data sets that can be folded into mathematics and science lessons with just a few steps. These statistics can even be used in classes as young as kindergarten, where students are learning the very basics about numbers and what they symbolize. Read more>>
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Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6 has picked SchoolMint to make enrollment a more efficient, equitable process, and eases the application process for parents who may submit applications online or with a mobile device. Read more>>
Cricket Media, Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of Bubbl, Inc., an interactive video solutions provider. Without downloading additional software, fans on Bubbl-powered sites or apps can create, remix, and share clips directly from streaming or live video. Read more>>
The Vendor Risk Management's automated security process provides districts with a comprehensive understanding of policies and procedures of third party vendors. It allows districts to better develop and track a risk remediation plan communicated with each vendor. Read more>>
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If the South Dakota district's school board decides to call for a $190 million bond referendum, Sioux Falls School District could see a new high school, middle school and elementary school sometime within the next decade. Read more>>
The West Virginia Speaker of the House has sent a letter to several people and organizations, including FEMA, regarding the construction timeline for rebuilding schools that were destroyed in the June 2016 flood. Read more>>
Although the request cites $250 million, a Public Schools of Robeson County's school board member says the actual amount of any bond referendum is likely to be far less. Read more>>
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