Fewer North Carolina students attend traditional public schools

Enrollment dropped by 5,562 students this year in the state’s traditional public schools. Meanwhile, charter schools, home schools and private schools gained 23,880 students, according to state data. Read more>>

The toolkit is a nonbinding guide with information about providing welcoming environments for all students and guidelines for school officials to support transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Read more>>

Judge says state should revisit policies for determining who qualifies for special education. The state should not use criteria that essentially require students to be severely behind their peers before a disability is recognized, the judge wrote in her ruling. Read more>>

Teachers, current and retired, parents, students and their families began converging about 10 a.m. near the Washington Monument to march in support of public education. Similar marches took place in 11 cities nationwide, including Detroit, Austin, Miami and Lincoln, Nebraska, according to the march's website. Read more>>

School officials are working to revise board policies and administrative regulations related to sexual harassment so that the path for reporting and investigating such abuses are easier for school staff and community members to follow. Read more>>

New state law tweaks licensing requirement for technical education teachers. The hope is to make it easier for schools to get people with the skills to teach career and technical education—things like welding or woodworking—into the classroom. Read more>>

In the 2010-11 school year, the Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs began one of the most rigorous pay-for-performance plans in the nation: Called “Effectiveness and Results.” Read more>>

More teachers are fleeing the profession and fewer are choosing to join it. So the region’s school districts have decided it’s no longer enough to recruit at job fairs in Florida and the Northeast. Instead, they are going to California, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other places around the United States. Read more>>

Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their "Lynch" before the upcoming school year in response to growing concern about the word's racial connotations. The schools were named for the Lynch family, which donated land over a century ago to build the first of the schools. Read more>>

In an effort to entice top-rated teachers to transfer to low-rated schools, Fulton County offered $20,000 stipends in a pilot program announced with great fanfare in 2014. It was not an easy sell. Although 375 Fulton teachers were eligible to participate, only 32 applied. Read more>>

New York charter networks may soon be able to use alternative educator-certification methods they say work better than master’s degrees. Read more>>

Only about 24 percent of all teachers were male in 2012, with just one in 10 men teaching elementary school students. One researcher says a number of factors contribute to the shortage, but a big one is that many people still believe the role of an elementary teacher is better suited for women. Read more>>

Homeless-student status allows athletes to move from school to school, following celebrity coaches and dreams of sports stardom while excused from rules that bind other athletes — such as maintaining a solid grade-point average. But when sports end, many of these students find themselves adrift. Read more>>

The integrated insights partner serving more than 12,000 educational organizations recently announced the acquisition of School Improvement Network, a professional growth provider for education. This is Frontline’s tenth acquisition overall and the second of this year. Read more>>

In its new catalog, Scholastic Book Fairs will feature two of Wonder Workshop's Dash & Dot robots, which are designed to teach students coding, creative problem solving and robotics. Read more>>

The video-based online professional learning nonprofit announced that its operations and assets have been acquired by its management team and employees. Teaching Channel's platform provides more than 1,300 classroom-focused videos through its website and through sales of its SAAS-based professional development platform. Read more>>

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