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An administrative law judge has ruled that Minnesota Department of Education officials overstepped their authority when rewriting integration rules and that their proposed regulations are not backed up by enough evidence and sometimes conflict with state law. Read more>>
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Now that ISTEP+, Indiana’s public school student assessment, is out of the picture after 2017, school administrators are asking what’s next. The newly signed bill calls for a 23-person committee to make a recommendation for a replacement exam by December 1. Read more>>
The 2.25 percent increase in state spending for Iowa school districts will increase state appropriations for pre-K-12 programs by more than $138 million for the 2016-17 academic year. When all education spending is tallied, including money for teacher leadership programs, the amount totals $153.8 million. Read more>>
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Long live aging edtech
Old computers may not be trendy, but as school tech budgets shrink or stagnate, administrators squeeze more life out of aging devices. Recycling and retrofitting, and hooking up to the cloud, lets districts delay or even abandon established schedules for buying new equipment. Read more>>
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Chicago Public Schools sued the Illinois State Charter School Commission over the panel's reversal of the district's decision to close three privately operated charter schools. In three separate lawsuits, the district asks a judge to rule the commission acted beyond its statutory authority. Read more>>
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he will let a Republican-backed, $7 billion budget closure package take effect without his signature, effectively bringing a truce to a nine-month fiscal and policy war. Read more>>
A school equalization plan is headed to the full Kansas Legislature, with lawmakers hoping to approve the measure before they leave for a month-long break. Unlike previous proposals, no districts lose funds under the one-year plan, but very few districts receive additional money. Read more>>
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
The creative problem-solving and critical-thinking skills involved in the arts are the same skills teachers are stressing through the more rigorous standards; yet those same art programs can often be taken for granted when compared to the core subjects. Read more>>
If agriculture education is such a clear, pressing need—and if there is sufficient demand for agriculture education from the families who patronize these schools—why would schools be eliminating popular programs if they can locally decide how much money to put behind them, rather than have it dictated to them by the state? Read more>>
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A Columbia University’s Teachers College professor says he knows how to get poor, African American kids interested in school, and it involves treating his classrooms more like gangs. Gangs give their members true responsibility. They make their members feel like they’re a valued part of a family and community—a unit that will protect them. Read more>>
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Odysseyware Academy has been approved as a multi-district online provider in the state of Washington. The standards-aligned curriculum will be used by educators throughout the state to customize distance learning for their students. Read more>>
The updated VersaTiles skills-practice system provides immediate feedback and is an active alternative to practice workbooks with real-world photos, embedded examples and tips to support independent and small-group learning. Read more>>
The new Explain Everything Collaborative Whiteboard application for iOS allows users on different iPads to work on the same project with all of the design, recording and export features in its Interactive Whiteboard application. Read more>>
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In the depths of the Great Recession, then-Gov. Pat Quinn celebrated a roughly $500 million school construction bond program that would allow Illinois districts to build new facilities and fix old ones via a federal program that would subsidize interest payments on the borrowing. But the bonding authority granted to Illinois sat on the shelf for six years. Read more>>
Associated Press via ABC News
The nation is spending about $46 billion less than what it needs to keep up its school buildings, according to a new report. The country needs to keep better track of the state of its schools and find new funding sources for their upkeep so that local districts that now bear the heaviest funding burdens don't have to divert money from instruction. Read more>>
School administrators say the North Carolina system needs 17 more new schools by 2022 to keep up with the thousands of new students still expected to enroll. They identified the need for 10 new elementary schools, three middle schools and four high schools, eight of which Wake still needs to find land to build on. Read more>>
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