Newtown among 800 school sites attacked by hackers

Newtown Public School District’s website was hacked Monday morning, one of 800 across the country attacked by hackers. The group claiming responsibility for the hack was also blamed for hacking local government websites across the country over the summer. Read more>>

The Arkansas Department of Education has taken over the Earle School District after finding what administrators called substantial audit violations and almost $2 million in unallowable spending of state and federal funds over the last two academic years. Read more>>

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' school-choice agenda is getting a bit of a boost from the Republican tax bill, which would allow parents to use education savings accounts to pay tuition at private schools. Yet some conservative groups say the tax bill doesn't help low-income families. Read more>>

The Sacramento City USD and its teachers union have reached an agreement on a new contract that gives teachers up to an 11 percent raise over the three-year deal and averts a strike for the 43,000-student district. Read more>>

This Election Day, voters in nearly four dozen Ohio school districts will decide if they want to increase local taxes to pay for their schools. But even more—about 70 districts—are asking voters to renew existing taxes. Just about all of them are dealing with a state law that ensures the districts will have to go back to the voters again in a few years. Read more>>

The state is releasing school performance scores for the last academic year as well as school profiles for K12 public school and child care center comparisons as part of its new interactive online tool, the Louisiana School Finder. Read more>>

Special education is a broad umbrella. Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their non-disabled peers. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help. Read more>>

There is a finite pool of money set aside to fund public education. When you cut it, it affects everyone, but it affects the already financially struggling most of all. There could come a day where many rural schools could have to close their doors forever. We’ve already seen the consequences of decades of school consolidation. Read more>>

It is encouraging to see schools tackling financial "life lessons" in creative ways, because all indications are that American students are too often unprepared for the complex financial decisions—such as student loans—that they will soon confront. Read more>>

The STEAM Park early learning solution, designed to spark preschoolers’ natural curiosity in STEAM, is accompanied by the LEGO Education STEAM Park Teacher Guide with STEAM-centric lessons and activities. Read more>>

TeamDynamix's latest release aims to offer service leaders and CIOs the ability to limit the risk associated with sensitive information by instituting multiple layers of data protection and access to field-level data. Read more>>

Anatomage's latest educational platform is an online anatomy reference website. Website visitors will be able to explore vivid 3D anatomy from videos that showcase different regions of the body. Read more>>

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Hudsonville Superintendent Nick Ceglarek informed district families that he will be departing at the end of the school year to become superintendent of the Traverse Bay ISD. He has been Hudsonville’s superintendent since the 2009-10 school year. Read more>>

In the last five years, the Pennsylvania district has gone through four leadership changes. Tom Strickler, currently the district’s director of operations under a shared services agreement with Eastern Lancaster County School District, was approved as Columbia Borough School District’s next superintendent. Read more>>

The General Brown CSD's board of education has selected a new district superintendent. Barbara J. Case is currently the George Junior Republic Union Free School District's principal for grades 7 through 12. Read more>>