TOP NEWS MLive The state Senate approved several bills aimed at improving school safety, including requiring additional police training and mandating that school districts create emergency plans for each of their schools. The legislation also creates an Office of School Safety. Read more>> Sponsored Sponsored by Transfinder With Viewfinder from Transfinder, district staff can get answers to questions without needing to call transportation. This can streamline communication within the district, ensuring the right people have access to information. Read more>> Chalkbeat A bill to eliminate the specialized high school admissions test likely does not have a path forward this year in the New York State legislature. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he would take up the issue next session. Read more>> NBC News Flavored e-cigarette products and new vaping devices like Juul are luring teenagers away from smoked cigarettes but keeping them hooked on nicotine, federal health officials said. The latest tobacco use survey shows a drop in the number of high school students who use tobacco. Read more>> Associated Press via The News Tribune A long-running court case over the adequacy of education funding in Washington state has ended, with the state Supreme Court lifting its jurisdiction over the case and dropping daily sanctions after the Legislature funneled billions more dollars into public schools. Read more>> The Texas Tribune A couple of weeks after Texas penalized its main testing vendor over glitches with thousands of standardized tests, another potential testing mishap is under investigation after more than 100 students in a high-performing Houston-area high school received zeros on their English essays. Read more>> Chicago Tribune One thing connects every school shooting, Indiana's state police superintendent said, and it’s that somebody always knows beforehand. Around 80 educators and law enforcement representatives attended a Safe Schools Commission meeting. Although social media is going to be the place where a lot of school threats are discovered, monitoring the sites is personnel heavy, he said. Read more>> OPINION U.S. News & World Report A parent's movement in rural Colorado has students eating better—and others following her lead. Armed with studies showing good nutrition can improve academic performance, parents pushed for the transformation at Idalia, along the way crafting a model for what can be achieved if communities have information, tools and support. Read more>> NPR Illinois Last year, Illinois overhauled its school funding formula, adding extra money to equalize schools that lack sufficient local resources. That equalization effort depends on legislators annually appropriating at least $350 million. Will the new teacher salary law incentivize lawmakers to keep appropriating that money? Read more>> Houston Chronicle It’s time to take a hard and serious look at primary prevention of violence. Have challenging conversations with young people about how they are responsible for their actions. Fund more programs that support emotional and social learning. Implement them in our classrooms as educators are doing in some of the country’s largest school districts. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS Thunkable On the Thunkable X cross-platform app builder, non-coders can easily design apps, program functionality with drag and drop blocks, and upload apps to the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store. Read more>> JourneyEd zSpace's learning experience consists of zSpace all-in-one computers with AR and VR capabilities, learning apps, and learning activities and teaching resources. Read more>> Tata Consultancy Services Ltd/Discovery Education Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education launched their Ignite My Future in School initiative in partnership with Cornell Tech. New York City teachers will receive professional development, educational resources and support to integrate computational thinking into core subjects such as math, sciences, arts and social studies. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ PEOPLE WATCH WCVE Henrico County hired Amy Cashwell as its next superintendent. Now chief academic officer for teaching and learning at Virginia Beach, Cashwell is replacing retiring Superintendent Patrick Kinlaw. Read more>> WPXI The former superintendent of the Plum Area School District, Timothy Glasspool, has a new job leading another school district in Western Pennsylvania. He is now head of the Penncrest School District, which has about 3,000 students. Read more>> Watertown Daily Times A search for a new school superintendent of the Canton CSD wrapped up when Ronald P. Burke was selected to succeed retiring school leader William A. Gregory. Burke is currently the superintendent for the Edwards-Knox CSD. Read more>> |