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Despite protests, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction announced that it adopted the rules anyway, opting against the changes requested by local school districts. The new rules aim to decrease student suspensions and expulsions in school districts. Read more>>
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The 2018-19 state budget includes $60 million more in state funding for school safety and security – a 700 percent increase over the $8.5 million provided last year. About 20 percent of the new money will be divvied up evenly between the state’s 500 school districts. Read more>>
The declines come amid the sport's struggles nationwide. High school football - beset by injury concerns, single-sport specialization, rising equipment and participation costs and demographic shifts - has battled in some communities to maintain a foothold. Read more>>
For PBL to thrive, administrators must incorporate authenticity, student ownership, reflection, revision and public work into their schools. Read more>>
A total of 239 Vermont schools have been awarded safety grants totaling $4 million, which will fund infrastructure upgrades designed to improve school safety. Read more>>
Warned by state education officials of a pending spike in the number of F-rated high schools if no action is taken, the state’s Commission on School Accreditation voted to recommend resetting, again, Mississippi’s A-to-F grading scale for more than 200 schools in the state. Read more>>
Quite often teachers have to dip in their own pockets to buy necessities for their classrooms, but this year all 143 teachers in the Pendleton County school district were gifted $100 to use for supplies. Read more>>
If Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were like any other school, you wouldn't think much of freshly-painted hallways or newly-installed fences. If this were a normal student body, the eyes of the nation wouldn't be trained on their every move. In any other place, in any other new school year, things would be as they were. Read more>>
In this era of higher taxes, increasing scrutiny is focused on school budgets. Unfortunately, the first cuts made are often in band, orchestra and chorus. Years of evidence show cutting school music programs to save money is like trying to stop a clock to save time. Read more>>
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It’s fair to be concerned about whether all students are getting equal opportunities to live up to their potential. Technology may one day close those gaps: Digital citizenship will need to be incorporated into curriculum at least as much as character education. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that things are getting better, and technology is already breaking down barriers in education. Read more>>
itslearning announced its collaboration with Google for Education, delivering the first phase of a comprehensive technology roadmap. Capabilities include use of Google assignment templates, management of file permissions, easy administration of assignments and more. Additional points of integration will be released throughout 2018. Read more>>
The Devereux Student Strengths Assessment-High School Edition provides a powerful, reliable and psychometrically sound tool to help educators, parents and out-of-school-time organizations measure the social and emotional competencies of students in grades 9-12. Read more>>
Chalk Education Inc.'s 2018 version of its Chalk Assessment solution allows the capture of summative, formative, diagnostic and behavioral assessments and observations. Chalk Assessment improves student-teacher-guardian engagement, and ensures lines of communication are open and geared towards student learning and growth. Read more>>
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It’s been two years since voters passed a $9 billion bond to renovate and modernize the state’s public schools and community colleges, yet less than 20 percent of the $7 billion in the Proposition 51 bond for the state’s K12 schools has been allocated, despite a $3.5 billion backlog of construction projects waiting for funding. Read more>>
The Federal Way school district is moving forward with construction projects this summer to expand and renovate six aging schools. Approved by voters in 2017, a school construction bond of $450 million was allocated to Federal Way Public Schools to improve eight total schools. Read more>>
When explaining the need for the $77.9 million bond that will be proposed to the Nacogdoches ISD School, the school district's interim superintendent said that the elementary school campus is beyond repair, middle school campuses need to be combined and more. Read more>>
Portland Public Schools promised to remake four schools and address serious safety hazards if voters passed the largest bond in Oregon history. And in May 2017, voters did. Now district officials say it must pony up an additional $100 million or more or scale back its plans. Read more>>
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