Maryland governor refuses to sign off on state education plan

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

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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