TOP NEWS Delaware Online A controversial state anti-discrimination regulation that would have allowed Delaware students to self-identify gender and race without parents' permission has essentially been gutted, proponents on both sides of the issue say. Read more>> From DA Magazine Districts of Distinction Scottsbluff Public Schools opened a storefront dropout prevention and recovery program called Reconnect that has graduated more than 130 16- to 21-year-olds. Read more>> ABC News Washoe County School District in Nevada has settled a First Amendment lawsuit with an eighth-grade student who said his rights were violated when he was told his pro-gun T-shirt violates the district's dress code. The district has updated its dress code to no longer ban clothing that promotes weapons and has allowed the student to wear a Firearms Policy Coalition T-shirt. Read more>> USA Today When Jaisaan Lovett graduated from University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men in Rochester, N.Y., as the school's first black valedictorian last month, the school refused to let him speak. However, the mayor invited him to City Hall to deliver the speech and posted it on the city's official YouTube channel. Read more>> Sponsored Sponsored by Cisco Meraki Arbor Park School District needed a way to provide uninterrupted connections for students on state testing day, in addition to filtering content, blacklisting sites and traffic shaping. With enhanced network visibility and control, the IT team was able to accomplish this and more with only one firewall for the district. Read more>> NPR Virginia joins New York to become the first two states to require mental health education in public schools. This comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report a 30 percent rise in suicide rates in the U.S. in the past two decades. Read more>> The Ledger Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said there was no evidence Polk County Public Schools or two other Florida districts had violated standardized testing rules as they had been suspected by a group of six legislators calling for investigations. Read more>> Philly.com Not only has Pennsylvania’s new school-funding formula failed to remedy disparities between wealthy and poor public school districts, the spending gap between such districts has grown, according to a filing last week by plaintiffs in a landmark funding lawsuit. The formula also hasn’t pumped money into cash-strapped schools, according to the lawsuit. Read more>> OPINION The New York Times High school educators across the country have been clamping down on students who publish articles on protests, sexuality and other hot-button issues. Read more>> The Hechinger Report While it’s common for teachers to plan long-term goals or curriculum together, teachers at one Bronx school plan each individual lesson together. Read more>> The Tennessean Even following a massive effort to reform Tennessee schools after the state received an “F” from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2007 on student proficiency, the state's students still lags behind their peers in other states. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS Accelify Solutions, LLC Accelify Solutions, LLC has been awarded a contract by Saint Louis Public Schools to provide Medicaid billing software and services for direct therapy and transportation services provided to the district's students with disabilities. Read more>> i-Ready/Curriculum Associates The i-Ready upgrades—including a redesigned teacher experience, the addition of a new differentiated growth model, new and expanded K5 reading and mathematics lessons, and an iPad-compatible student experience—will improve the teaching and learning process for the program’s 5.6 million users. Read more>> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Kids Discover Houghton Mifflin Harcourt launched Into Learning, a series of fully integrated core curriculum solutions, such as the K8-focused HMH Into Math and HMH Into Literature. HMH Into Reading for K6 grades includes Rigby leveled readers, and dual-language and biliteracy program offerings. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ |