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Top News Asbury Park Press New Jersey districts aren't receiving state money based on their student population and demographics as dictated by the current school funding formula, according to a report. That's left hundreds of districts with either overpayments or underpayments from the state. The report also found problems in special education and preschool funding. Read more>> |
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Reno Gazette-Journal While the Nevada Supreme Court blocked the state’s program offering $5,100 a year to all students leaving public school, it didn’t say the school choice program was illegal. The Legislature would need to set aside funding specifically for the program instead of funneling money out of the state account for public schools, as originally planned. Read more>> The Wall Street Journal Leaders of a growing “opt out” movement against standardized tests lost a major battle under the nation’s new education law. But they have gone into the new school year determined to bolster their ranks. Read more>> |
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From DA Magazine How to be an effective, first-year elementary school principal Paul S. Haughey Elementary schools differ in many ways—even within the same district—but new principals can follow leadership practices in keeping the focus on teaching and learning every school day. Here are several tips. Read more>> |
Illinois News Network Most Illinois taxpayers have never heard of Article 19b of the Illinois School Code. But this energy-savings statute could concern taxpayers if their local school districts approved the energy-efficiency improvements the article allows, and then used them to fund other unrelated and unbudgeted no-bid projects. Read more>> Seguin Gazette School officials are seeking answers as the state education agency has come under scrutiny for a decade-old policy which may have denied services for hundreds of thousands of special needs students across Texas. Read more>> Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Public Schools officials released new, slightly more democratic requirements for the district to consolidate schools or change attendance boundaries. They also spelled out how the district will shut down charters that fail to meet benchmarks for student achievement or financial management. Read more>> |
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Opinion & Analysis The New York Times The concept of zero tolerance has come to encompass such a broad range of disruptive actions that roughly three million schoolchildren are suspended each year. The pendulum in some jurisdictions is swinging away from hard-nosed book-’em certitudes toward softer let’s-try-to-reason-with-’em approaches. Read more>> Newsweek While there have been a few trailblazers in the development of meditative practices in schools, some professionals are hesitant to believe these can have the same, standard success rate at each institution. Read more>> |
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Education Dive When it comes to special education teachers, the teacher shortage situation is dire. The attrition rate for these educators is twice that of general education teachers. And as special education students are increasingly put into general education classes, the preparedness gap of teachers becomes even wider. Read more>> |
Industry News Curriki Curriki, a K12 global community for creating and sharing open educational resources (OER), has created a new array of custom services, including custom OER collection curation and publishing services, a custom search widget and a search application program interface. Read more>> Preferred Meals Preferred Meals debuted its new Food Allergy Meal System for breakfast and lunch meals, available for the first time this 2016-17 academic year. The kid-friendly foods are free of gluten and the top eight allergens, including milk, eggs, fish, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree nuts and wheat. Read more>> McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K12 math, language arts and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Read more>> |
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