Kansas Senate agrees to new school finance formula

Legislators in the Kansas Senate agreed on a new school finance formula amid calls by Democrats that the funding in the bill will trouble the Kansas Supreme Court and trigger a special session where changes to the system would have to be made. Read more>>

A 17-year-old transgender Kenosha high school student can continue using the boys' restroom, a federal appeals court ruled, rejecting school district arguments against the practice. Read more>>

The allegations are alarming; parents in the Birmingham School District are raising concerns about what they call blatant racism targeted at their kids. Parents and students are demanding the district to take action. Read more>>

Jessica Ablamsky

Palm Springs USD helps English language learners find success with an extended instructional program that allows students to practice their English skills before or after school, on Saturdays and during breaks. Read more>>

An increasingly stressful environment and unfiltered access to information could be dramatically boosting the number of teens and children hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or actions. A recent study found that children’s hospital admissions of patients 5 to 17 years old for such thoughts or actions more than doubled from 2008 to 2015. Read more>>

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is taking steps to merge with the union that represents many of the city’s charter schools. A merger — potentially the first of its kind — would turn the growing ChiACTS union for charter school staffers into a division of the CTU, which is the country’s oldest teachers union. Read more>>

A group of education and pediatric health activists spent hours in Massachusetts' legislative building asking state officials to start school later in the day. The group delivered a petition asking the legislature and governor to move the start time to 8:30 a.m. for Massachusetts middle and high school students. Read more>>

Shorty shorts and form-fitting shirts are pretty much all you can find from most major mainstream brands when it comes to clothing for girls. Schools are shaming girls when they wear those same clothes to school. But if the girls are wearing the clothes that are primarily being offered to them, don't we have a problem here? Read more>>

Many students at Crocker College Prep, an elementary charter school in New Orleans, suffer from trauma. The school has changed its discipline model from "no excuses" to "trauma informed" because the old way of doing things wasn't working in a place where children suffer from PTSD at three times the rate of children nationally. Read more>>

The dizzying speed of reform visions just in Michigan is enough to throw most people off balance. It’s a constantly changing target, and while these blueprints are crafted with good intentions by smart people, the churn has created a culture of “this too shall pass.” Read more>>

Kognito is helping school districts address bullying, harassment and emotional distress challenges LGBTQ students face by offering Step In, Speak Up!. The interactive, online role-play simulation helps educators understand the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth and prepares them to lead conversations with students to combat harassment. Read more>>

In addition to its elementary school-focused Clicker literacy tool, Crick Software has launched a new program for struggling writers in middle school, high school and college. DocsPlus is a talking word processor that gives students with high incidence special needs the support they need to independently tackle curriculum writing tasks. Read more>>

With a new training module for Performance Matters' Calibration tool, districts can now access new courses designed to teach observers how to conduct evidence-based observations and conversations to promote continuous growth. Read more>>