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The $715 million Detroit Public Schools rescue plan includes $515 million to pay off district debt over 10 years and $200 million to start up a new debt-free community schools district. The legislation calls for school board elections in November and creation of a new Detroit Education Commission to regulate school opening decisions. Read more>>
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Reflecting overwhelming bipartisan opposition to over-testing of public school students, the House of Delegates voted to restrict mandated standardized testing to 2 percent of instructional time—about 20 hours per school year. Read more>>
A new school equalization plan is in the works that would simplify the formula and help “hold harmless” wealthier districts, which would lose millions in state aid under other proposals. The Senate Ways and Means Committee may hold a hearing on a new plan this week. Read more>>
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Graduation rates for disabled students stagnate
While national graduation rates hit an all-time high of 82 percent in 2014, the trend for students with disabilities remained flat at nearly 63 percent. In three states, students with disabilities graduated from high school at half the rate of their non-disabled peers. Read more>>
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The City of Detroit has created a permanent funding source—the Detroit Promise plan—to offer all Detroit high school graduates two years of tuition-free community college. Read more>>
Ohio online schools would be required to do more intense tracking of student attendance and report participation logs to the state on a monthly basis under a bill introduced by the Senate minority leader. Read more>>
Opposition to a bill allowing for new ways to meet West Virginia’s school instructional requirement of 180 days is coming from Michael Martirano, state superintendent of schools. The bill allows banked additional school minutes to be used to make up lost instructional days to get to the 180 mark and limits school to dates between August 10 and June 10. Read more>>
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A report examined Montgomery County’s selective academic programs and found marked disparities by race and ethnicity in enrollment and acceptance rates, with white students faring much better than their black and Hispanic counterparts. Read more>>
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In an effort to build empathy for the student experience, some school and district leaders are shadowing students. Recently more than 800 school and district leaders nationwide participated in Shadow a Student Challenge to better understand what goes on at the classroom level where the policies and practices they’ve mandated take effect. Read more>>
Many schools need a lot of community help to fulfill their mission of teaching kids effectively and grooming them for life as capable adults. Faculty members at Harvard's Graduate School of Education are launching By All Means, a national program that, over the next few years, will help schools in six U.S. cities deal with specific local challenges that hinder students' success. Read more>>
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Science is an area that levels the playing field. Regardless of different experiences or learning styles, all students can contribute because all students have ideas. Inquiry and experimentation allow students who may not be strong writers to excel and succeed. Read more>>
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School districts across the country will have daily access to top Washington Post news and feature stories—with built-in formative assessments created by LightSail’s instructional team to assess reading comprehension. Read more>>
The Virtual High School Inc.
This spring semester, the Virtual High School’s Online Judaic Studies Consortium is offering a new course: Mussar: Practical Ethics for Living a Meaningful Life. The course focuses on Mussar, the Jewish wisdom tradition that teaches individuals how to make the choices most aligned with their best selves. Read more>>
The new social studies content is available for first and second grade with curriculum for the remaining higher elementary school grades to be released in August. Each interactive history, geography, government or economics lesson uses cognitive skill manipulatives to push students to think critically about topics being covered. Read more>>
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