Texas creates mental health task force for schools

The Texas Education Agency is spearheading the effort to establish the Hurricane Harvey Task Force on School Mental Health Supports. The task force will develop a list of tiered supports and resources that can be used by school leaders to address the mental health needs of affected staff, students and families. Read more>>

A school resource officer in Kentucky who handcuffed young children acted unreasonably and violated the children’s constitutional rights, a federal judge ruled. The cuffs twisted the arms of the 8-year-boy behind his back. Read more>>

School bus companies in New York are not required to report tickets issued for red light camera violations, a state investigation found, despite nearly 300 tickets being issued in one county alone last year. The state's attorney general said violations need to be reported and should also be used to evaluate bus drivers. Read more>>

The Illinois school is among a handful of schools in the country to pilot new resources developed by the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School for introducing students to the cultural studies method of teaching religion. Read more>>

Starting with this year’s eighth graders, Philadelphia’s four career and technical education high schools will admit students via lottery. There will no longer be any admissions criteria other than students showing interest. The high schools' alumni are vowing to fight the change. Read more>>

The Biloxi School District got complaints about the wording in To Kill A Mockingbird and pulled it from the eighth grade curriculum. It was an administrative and department decision, a member of the school board said. Read more>>

Vocational education used to be considered low-tech and non-academic. Not anymore. Career and technical education now requires nearly as much ELA and math as any other degree. Read more>>

What is going to change football is oversight by parents. More and more children will be barred from participating in potentially dangerous activities until rules change the basic makeup of the game. Read more>>

There is a danger in sanitizing history. We must face the past with truth and accuracy, and the reality of what we were and what we have become. To ignore this is to fail to learn from it. Where the fine line is drawn is in what some of those symbols have become over the years. Read more>>

Our public schools are the nation’s second-largest public infrastructure investment after highways and bridges and many public schools are now reaching the end of their 50-year life cycle. The multipurpose use of these facilities for education, community use and election sites suggest that they are at the center of every community. Read more>>

Empatico, KIND Foundation's multi-year initiative, is specifically designed for 8-10-year-olds to practice communication and leadership skills through interactions with peers across the globe. The free online learning tool combines intuitive video conferencing technology with standards-based activities. Read more>>

The new Epson PowerLite S39, X39, W39, 107, 108, 109W, 970, 980W and 990U offer image quality up to 4,000 lumens of color and white brightness, long-life lamps, high resolution, and enhanced wireless technology to connect to multiple devices. Read more>>

With the release of the next generation of the guided reading software called Reading Assistant Plus, Scientific Learning Corp. offers schools an enhanced digital tool to quickly and effectively develop students’ fluency, prosody and comprehension. Read more>>

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