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After North Carolina Superintendent Mark Johnson sparked controversy by saying $35,000 is a good starting salary for some young teachers, the North Carolina Association of Educators, the state's largest public school employee organization, announced that it will not invite him to its annual convention this March. Read more>>
In Georgia, students in Paulding County High School’s biotechnology career pathway program use atomic absorption spectrometers, lectroporators, nano-injectors, micro-manipulators and other advanced equipment. Read more>>
For the third year in a row, Superintendent of Public Institution Sherri Ybarra has come forward with a request of $300,000 for a Rural Education Support Network. For the third year in a row, her request has been rejected by the governor. Read more>>
The Kansas State Board of Education last week shot down a request by legislative leaders who wanted to suspend the state’s top school finance official in a dispute over funding of school transportation. The vote was cheered by education officials, lawmakers and others who packed the board room in support of Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis. Read more>>
The Connecticut Supreme Court was asked late last week to reconsider its recent decision that the state provides students from impoverished communities the minimally adequate education the state Constitution requires. Read more>>
West Virginia’s House Finance Committee advanced to the full House of Delegates a bill that would dismantle the state Department of Education and the Arts. The bill would make six of the nine state Board of Education members elected, and allow lawmakers to amend and reject the policies the state school board passes. Read more>>
A proposal to Florida voters aims to grant high-performing district schools the ability to become “charter districts,” and therefore better compete with charter schools, which have much less state regulation and more autonomy. Read more>>
While a fierce debate on whether the dreamers should be forced out of the country or given a path to citizenship rages in Washington, D.C., two teachers describe how these young people have improved their North Carolina high school. Read more>>
Bailey Holt and Preston Cope were killed in their high school this week. They were both 15 years old. But has the news of students being killed in their school lost the power to shock and sober us? Read more>>
In a study that included almost 50,000 students in Broward County, Florida, the majority of teachers who used a non-traditional schedule reported that they implemented a variety of new teaching techniques, increased the number of learning activities, experimented with different student evaluation techniques and provided more individualized attention. Read more>>
At the center of the new solution is Cue, a witty robot that responds to both the block-based code used in earlier grades, as well as text-based JavaScript, allowing students to build upon and further develop their coding skills. A three-unit Applied Robotics Curriculum will also be released soon. Read more>>
The updated release of Impero Education Pro, version 6.3, set to launch in February 2018, will feature additional functionality, including an intuitive "enterprise console" using cloud technology and a web-based teacher console. Read more>>
As part of School District of Janesville's multi-year STEAM professional development initiative, it is expanding its partnership to include Discovery Education's STEM Leader Corp. model, Discovery Education Community and Streaming Plus digital content service. Read more>>
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