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The Baltimore Sun
Gov. Larry Hogan is refusing to endorse the Maryland school board’s plan for helping low-performing schools, saying state board members were hamstrung by a new law limiting what the plan can include. Read more>>
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Chron.com
Superintendent Richard Carranza said the district had three options to comply with the state law: cut short already planned holidays, tack days on to the end of the school year or lengthen the school day. Read more>>
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The Dallas Morning News
Dallas ISD trustees unanimously express interest in supporting name changes at four schools named after Confederate generals — Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and William L. Cabell elementary schools. The future might hold even more alterations. Read more>>
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Bangor Daily News
The LePage administration wants local school districts to start providing special education services for about 2,500 3- to 5-year-olds with disabilities and developmental delays who currently receive the support through a $39 million state program. Read more>>
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SFGate
A state lawmaker said his bill to push back school start times at middle and high schools in the state is dead for the year after intense lobbying against the measure in recent days. Read more>>
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Daily Inter Lake
A negotiation team made contact with a suspect in the ongoing investigation into text and email threats that shut down schools. The suspect hacked into servers at the Columbia Falls Schools District and had threatened individual families and teachers. Read more>>
From DA Magazine
Jessica Ablamsky At least five states, including Ohio, Nevada, New York and Texas, offer special endorsements for high school graduates who demonstrate strong achievement in STEM. Read more>>
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The Herald Sun
Despite a survey that shows a majority of parents want Durham Public Schools to return to the old bell schedule, no such change will occur next school year, if ever. Read more>>
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Oklahoma Watch via Ada News
Special-education teachers have become so scarce that districts face fierce competition to find and keep good candidates and sometimes leave open positions unfilled. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
Gallup.com
Americans' confidence in the nation's public schools edged up in 2017. The 36% of U.S. adults who express "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in public schools is a six-percentage-point increase from 2016 and marks the highest confidence rating in eight years. Read more>>
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New Haven Register
While student enrollment in Connecticut’s urban school districts is on the rise, the vast majority of suburban and rural districts are seeing sharp declines, according to a Hearst Connecticut Media analysis. Read more>>
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StarTribune
Minnesota students have had the right to attend school in other districts since 1990, but the number of elementary and high school students exercising that option is surging. Last year, about 132,000 Minnesota students enrolled in schools outside their home district, four times the number making that choice in 2000. Read more>>
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Philly.com
Philadelphia’s selective public high schools do not look like other city schools: they have higher percentages of white and Asian students and lower percentages of students living in poverty, learning English and receiving special-education services, according to an analysis. Read more>>
Industry News
SchoolMint
LAUSD, Mountain View Whisman School District, Redwood City Elementary School District, Reed USD and San Leandro USD are the latest school districts in California to partner with SchoolMint to improve the parent experience and streamline operations and administrative workflow for staff. Read more>>
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DreamBox Learning
With the AssignFocus by Print Program, educators can create more comprehensive and differentiated math experiences for students by blending the power of DreamBox Learning’s adaptive, online K8 math solution with print programs like Eureka, EngageNY and Contexts for Learning Mathematics. Read more>>
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Extreme Networks, Inc.
To address the time constraints and resources spent on managing complex networks, Extreme Networks, Inc. launched Extreme Automated Campus, a fully automated secure networking solution for campus environments that delivers plug-and-play simplicity. Read more>> |
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