Wisconsin bill aims to protect teachers from assault

A state lawmaker is proposing a new bill that would, among other things, require police to report violent incidents by students off-site to their schools and allow teachers to initiate suspension actions against students. Read more>>

The San Juan and Mayagüez regions opened 119 schools in what officials hope will be the first of several waves. But of Puerto Rico’s roughly 1,100 schools, up to 20 percent will have to be permanently shuttered. Many more could be without running water and power for months. Read more>>

Michigan is home to two cities where the majority of students attend charter schools, according to a new report. Flint ranked second nationwide, behind New Orleans, with 55 percent of public school students enrolled in a charter school. Detroit came in third nationwide with 53 percent. Read more>>

Leaders with the Austin school district, the University of Texas’ Dell Medical School and Austin Community College are partnering to create a new health professions program in Austin for junior high and high school students. Read more>>

The city district's board approved a $5.6 billion budget that includes roughly $225 million in tax hikes and also authorized the sale of more than $1 billion in debt to help balance that budget and take on school repair projects. Read more>>

As the chief turnaround officer reporting to the governor's appointed state school board, Eric Thomas will have the power to intervene to shepherd the improvement of low-performing schools. The hiring of Thomas is the first significant step toward implementation of the recently passed House Bill 338. Read more>>

DA wants to help districts and CIOs discover best practices in internet filtering. Can filters be installed by class, by grade or school by school? What about 1-to-1 and BYOD programs? To share your district’s initiatives, please follow the link to connect with us. Contact us>>

Some early adopters in K12 education have deployed ERP to manage a range of operations more efficiently. Read more>>

While grades and teacher comments are valuable sources of information, they don't give parents the fullest picture of how their children are performing. It is time to address the disparities between parents' high expectations, their lack of information and the pressures of raising academically successful children. Read more>>

It’s hard to say whether students are learning if we don’t give them tests. At what point, though, does testing cease to be a yardstick for actual learning and simply become a function of serving the educational bureaucracy? And why bother re-testing students? Because the cumulative scores factor into whether a school gets accredited by the state. Read more>>

School administrators, teachers, parents, alumni and others can have a role in appropriately quantifying what separates good teachers and great teachers. These stakeholders can serve a vital roll, at a local level, to allow individual school districts to create their own standards based on what each district wants in each teachers. Read more>>

In a new partnership, itslearning's learning management system will give school districts using Knovation easy and full access to the Knovation Content Collection within the itslearning platform. Read more>>

EvoText, Inc. has partnered with Canvas by Instructure to integrate Ogment’s curriculum creation and management system with Instructure's learning platform. With Ogment, Canvas users gain a streamlined process for curriculum mapping, course building, content collection and progress monitoring. Read more>>

The program, a collaboration between Southern New Hampshire University and K12 Inc., will consist of both training modules and a series of graduate-level micro-credential programs which can stack into a full master’s degree in education focused on online instruction at the elementary and secondary levels. Read more>>

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The Washington school district's board is fine-tuning a plan that involves rebuilding the city’s elementary school, adding classrooms for middle schoolers, upgrading science labs and enhancing vocational training facilities. Read more>>

Rhode Island could fund billions of dollars in needed public school repairs by moving to a system that funds projects as they happen, placing a general-obligation bond question on next year’s ballot or offering incentives to cities and towns that commit to quickly making infrastructure improvements. Read more>>

The Pennsylvania school district's board approved construction of a new elementary school. The $34.1-million school be on the same site on which the current school sits. Read more>>