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The Inquirer
The city will spend $1.2 million to put full-time social workers in 22 schools beginning this fall. The pilot program, which officials hope eventually will roll out to schools districtwide, will introduce behavioral consultants, case managers and family peer specialists in later years. Read more>>
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The Atlantic
Here’s the latest, more profound way in which wealthier students have an advantage over lower-income ones: Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows. Read more>>
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The Columbus Dispatch
Five more Columbus school principals connected to the district’s data-manipulation scandal could lose their state-educator licenses. The most-recent notices from the Ohio Department of Education accuse administrators of misconduct during the 2010-11 school year. Read more>>
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The State Journal-Register
Saying he won’t give up on the school funding reform bill that’s already passed the General Assembly, Illinois' House Speaker said he will call the House back into session next week to vote on overriding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1. Read more>>
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Public News Service
In the past two years, the Arkansas Departments of Education and Information Systems worked together to install 200-kilobit-per-second connections in every school district. Arkansas now is one of only six states in the country with all schools connected at or above the federal target speed of 100 kbps. Read more>>
From DA Magazine
Fatme Faraj and Glenn M. Maleyko Evidence-based best practice is a hot topic in education, especially in regard to the proposed ESSA accountability system. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
U.S. News & World Report
Our nation's fleet of school buses is more than twice the size of all other forms of mass transit combined. With a system as large as this, it would be reasonable to expect that it would be a major part of transportation policy discussions. Unfortunately, school transportation is rarely, if ever, part of those discussions with transportation planners and operators. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
Standard-Times
Fortunately, enshrined in the Texas Election Code is a unique provision that requires all high school principals in Texas to serve as deputy voter registrars in their schools. In theory, this arrangement can be a great mechanism for principals to foster civic engagement among their students. But in practice, we are seeing a much different picture. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Detroit News
There is no question that too many students at Michigan’s largest school district have received a sub-par education. While Detroit children deserve basic literacy, the courtroom isn’t the place to fix the problems that have plagued the district. Read more>>
Industry News
Activate Learning Activate Learning, a K8 science curriculum provider, has acquired IT’S ABOUT TIME, a company that produces STEM curricula for K12 and college students. IT’S ABOUT TIME programs are modeled on the way scientists, engineers and mathematicians work, and emphasize project-based learning and evidence-based reasoning. Read more>>
Industry News
Capstone Capstone launched its newest database module, PebbleGo Next: Social Studies, featuring 150 articles. Introducing social studies content targeted to grades 3-5 curriculum, the new module joins the previously released databases PebbleGo Next: Science and PebbleGo Next: States and American Indians. Read more>> View more news at District Administration's PR Portal
Construction Watch
The Baltimore Sun Gov. Larry Hogan said that he plans to summon local school systems to Annapolis in October to explain their requests for construction money—a significant change from the way the money has been awarded in the past. In the current process, school systems send their requests for construction money to an independent panel. Read more>>
Construction Watch
Los Angeles Times
The opening of the $160-million Maywood Center for Enriched Studies marks the end of the line for the country’s largest new school construction project, which cost $10 billion, took two decades and resulted in 131 new modern campuses. Read more>>
Construction Watch
The Washington Post
When the Duke Ellington School of the Arts reopens its Georgetown campus after a three-year renovation, it will be the showstopper in the decade-long drive to modernize the D.C. Public Schools. But it will also reopen more than a year behind schedule and about $100 million over the $71 million budget the D.C. Council first approved. Read more>> |
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