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The Cleveland Municipal School District voluntarily tested more than 5,000 water samples in 69 schools, starting over the summer, and found 582 were above the Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water standards. These included 79 drinking fountains and 40 faucets in common areas. Read more>>
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The annual School Quality Reports examine the city’s more than 100 charter schools to determine if they are meeting citywide standards. The assessments consider a range of factors, including performance on standardized tests, PSATs and attendance rates. Read more>>
With the budget that passed City Hall this week, crossing guards lost their battle to move back to the Chicago Police Department from the Office of Emergency Management Communications. That means the crossing guards will no longer wear police uniforms. Read more>>
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The school drug-testing dilemma
About 27 percent of high schools nationwide have a form of student drug testing. Some schools also perform “reasonable suspicion” testing on students who show evidence of illegal drug use, which can include abnormal behavior or physical symptoms. Read more>>
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The New Mexico Public Education Department announced last week that it is seizing control of Española Public Schools’ finances and may remove Superintendent Eric Martinez from his job within a month if he doesn’t find a way to turn around the troubled district. Read more>>
The Clark County and Achievement school districts in southern Nevada are embroiled in battle of whether six underperforming schools should be turned over to charter operators. Read more>>
Lower Hudson Journal News
Westchester County school districts pay educators an average of $92,550 a year, more than any other county in New York, and the county is home to one of the highest-paid administrators in the state in 2015-16, records show. Read more>>
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Researchers and the U.S. Department of Education are beginning to understand the extent to which students at every grade level and in every type of school are absent an inordinate number of days, and the detrimental effects that can have on their education and path in life. Read more>>
The Education Department has plans to build a system of records that will collect detailed data on thousands of students—even though experts say there are not sufficient safeguards to protect student privacy. Supporters say it will help schools better counsel students about their post-secondary education and help policymakers make smarter decisions. Critics are concerned that the data will be misused, released to third parties, or hacked. Read more>>
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Civil-rights activists and policy wonks have long debated which is a more effective method of advancing social goals: changing hearts or changing laws? Does one lead to more authentic, enduring change? In Boston, it took a court order to seat black students next to their white peers—but it took two women to show that true interracial solidarity was possible. Read more>>
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Discovery Education signed a new multi-year partnership to deepen middle and high school students’ engagement with mathematics concepts and interactive math problems derived from NBA and WNBA game footage and statistics—such as points, rebounds, assists and more—integrated into Discovery Education’s Math Techbook. Read more>>
With the support of a grant from The NEA Foundation, Girls Thinking Global (GTG) has launched its GTG Collaborative Visualization Tool, an interactive global data mapping of hundreds of organizations that support the education, health, well-being and success of young women and girls globally. Read more>>
Impero Software/The Educator’s School Safety Network
Impero Software and the Educator’s School Safety Network have partnered to help schools detect and address potential incidents of school violence. Impero’s library of keywords relating to weapons, bombs and violence, coupled with Impero Education Pro Internet monitoring software, allows educators to receive alerts if keywords are used while on the school network. Read more>>
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