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Moving a long-running political battle into the courtroom, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's school board sued Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois State Board of Education, accusing the state of employing "separate and unequal systems of funding for public education in Illinois." Read more>>
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A study finds that more than four-fifths of Texas school districts teach no sex education or offer curriculums focusing solely on abstinence. In an attempt to improve sex education in Texas classrooms, the Texas Freedom Network examined 1,000 Texas school districts for the 2015-16 school year. Read more>>
Add fighting bullying to the long list of priorities for which the nation’s second-largest school system has good intentions but sluggish follow-through. One in 5 LAUSD high school students and 1 in 4 elementary students said they had been bullied last school year, according to a survey conducted as part of a newly released internal audit. Read more>>
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How to create impactful makerspaces DA Special Report: Makerspaces
Experts share strategies on room design, curriculum development and identifying funding sources. Read more>>
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One of several suggestions from volunteers trying to help the nearly 60,000-student Frisco ISD deal with a budget shortfall includes having students empty trash cans to cut back on janitorial staff hours and charging students to participate in athletics. Read more>>
New state legislation may be a boon to tardy teens. A California senator introduced a bill that would prohibit middle and high schools from starting classes before 8:30 a.m. Read more>>
The Justice Department signaled it stopped fighting to overturn a national injunction blocking the federal government from giving guidance to schools and transgender students, another sign President Donald Trump's administration is taking a different approach than former President Barack Obama's. Read more>>
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When parents of school children go to prison
More and more districts are looking for ways to keep children of incarcerated parents from falling behind in class or winding up in the discipline pipeline. Read more>>
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At 69 percent, the graduation rate of Washington, D.C.'s public schools system is well below the national average. In a move that mirrors a broader national conversation about how to help kids who have many obstacles, the district put “pathway coordinators” into its schools to make sure kids at risk of dropping out get a diploma—and to help students who’ve gotten off track rebound. Read more>>
Ohio schools dole out up to 36,000 suspensions to elementary students each year—a number that stunned a lawmaker into seeking a ban on many suspensions and expulsions. A legislator wants to ban suspensions and expulsions for students in the third grade or younger—except for cases in which a student threatens to harm himself or his peers. Read more>>
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Closing a neighborhood school can be devastating for students, families and communities. And what does it solve? Shutting down schools does nothing to address complex problems — a truth conveniently ignored by proponents of school choice who push monetizing public education as a magic bullet. Read more>>
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Cambium Learning Group, Inc.
Learning A-Z and Northwest Evaluation Assocation announced a partnership correlating Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) growth assessments to Raz-Plus and Reading A-Z reading resources. The new correlations enable teachers to identify appropriate instructional resources that address specific skills from the MAP Learning Continuum. Read more>>
Through a new collaboration with Discovery Education, Flint Community Schools educators teaching grades K8 districtwide can now accelerate the creation of authentic digital classrooms by integrating Discovery Education’s Science Techbook into classroom instruction. Educators at two district schools will also take part in STEMFormation. Read more>>
Scientific Learning Corp.
To provide educators with a comprehensive language and reading intervention that gets better results in a shorter period of time, Scientific Learning Corp. announced that the Fast ForWord online reading intervention will now include Reading Assistant patented speech recognition technology, plus hundreds of reading selections and new teacher-directed lessons. Read more>>
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