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Charter and virtual schools would get a cut of new or renewed regional education millage property tax revenue under a proposal approved by the state Senate. But the application to existing millages is not clearly spelled out in the bill. Read more>>
A state panel is proposing Indiana students get some kind of hands-on, real-world experience before they graduate high school, like a service-learning project, internship or even after-school job. Read more>>
Illinois is using scores on a single college entrance exam to judge whether students and high schools are meeting the state’s standards for math, reading and writing. But controversy is already brewing because the state’s minimum score to meet standards is higher than the SAT’s college readiness scores. Read more>>
The U.S. Department of Education is now warning teachers, parents and K12 education staff of a cyberthreat targeting school districts across the country. So far, at least three states have been targeted by the extortion attempt from hackers. Read more>>
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About two-thirds of the 73 schools appealing their letter grades say either that the Arizona Department of Education used incorrect data to calculate their grade or that the formula the state's board of education used to grade schools is flawed. Read more>>
The change from Davis Magnet IB Elementary School to Barack Obama IB Elementary School will officially happen at the beginning of the 2018-19 school year. Read more>>
The New York City Department of Education announced in September that all public school students will now receive free lunch. Read more>>
A new study shows that families act on insufficient information when it comes to figuring out where to enroll their children. Parents opt for schools with the most impressive graduates rather than figuring out which ones actually teach best. Read more>>
If high schools want to teach the fundamentals of journalism, press freedom must be part and parcel of the lesson plan. Public schools, after all, are arms of the government, and government officials shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what can and cannot be published. Read more>>
Driving a school bus is a great responsibility that is filled with stress and distraction. It is the only vehicle on the road today for which a lap-shoulder belt is not federally mandated. The argument against the belts wears thin when one considers that there are about 20,000 injuries on buses across the country every year. Read more>>
Fuel Education has expanded its suite of digital learning solutions for schools and districts with the addition of Big Universe, a literacy solutions provider of more than 11,000 leveled e-books for K12 students. The platform also offers embedded assessments, a student recommendation engine and analytics. Read more>>
The Traversa Ride 360 web and mobile application allows parents and students to access their own secure data for school bus stop location, route and pick-up time information through a specific Traversa Ride 360 web portal or by using the Traversa Ride 360 native mobile app for Android or iOS. Read more>>
West’s SchoolMessenger solutions launched its Chronic Absenteeism Intervention Program, which combines the SchoolMessenger Communicate notification service and the SafeArrival student attendance management tool with a set of professional services. Read more>>
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Local school leaders made their way to Annapolis as a part of what has been tagged as the "beg-a-thon." The yearly pitch for school construction funding was moved from January to October, which is well ahead of when the state starts to make big budget decisions. Read more>>
For school districts to meet basic facility and modern classroom infrastructure needs, they partner with the state to fund major rehabilitation and new build projects. But today there is more than a $2 billion backlog of school construction project applications that have been submitted to the state and are awaiting action. Read more>>
The rural-urban skirmish over state tax dollars dominated the debate into whether reform is needed in distribution of state lottery money and sales taxes, the role state and local bonds should play, and other funding mechanisms to build and repair school facilities. Read more>>
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