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According to a report from a special education task force subcommittee, there is a $700 million difference between what it costs to educate special education students in Michigan and what the state spends to educate them. Read more>>
District Administration Survey
The roles of educators are shifting as instructional practices advance, schools more actively support the students’ social-emotional development and new technology is integrated. Whether you’re a superintendent, central office administrator, principal or teacher, please follow the link to tell us how your role is changing. Your input may be included in our January 2018 Look Ahead issue of DA. Contact us>>
The Grand Island Independent
The Grand Island school district has established an incentive program to try to get substitute teachers to work for it instead of other school districts whenever considering work offers from two or more school districts for the same day. Read more>>
Critics of partisan school board elections in Utah argued in court that a constitutional prohibition against a “partisan test” for school employees extends to members of the state Board of Education. Read more>>
The District’s school leaders are decrying a D.C. Council proposal that would limit administrators’ authority to suspend and expel unruly students, saying it could endanger teachers and usurp their ability to discipline students. Read more>>
Indiana schools could face $9.3 million in cuts unless lawmakers provide more money. The potential reductions would translate to about $315,000 for Indianapolis Public Schools and more than $100,000 for many suburban districts. Read more>>
State lawmakers are vowing to make changes and establish consequences if school districts continue to shame and demean students over school meal accounts. That comes in response to a school district that took food away from a student because they had a negative balance. Read more>>
As the internet and social media become entrenched in classrooms, more schools teach students how to behave responsibly online and how to gauge the credibility of the web’s resources. Read more>>
It sounds good on its face: Give kids in public schools who are being bullied scholarships to transfer to private schools. But as a matter of education policy, this is a myopic idea that does nothing to address structural problems that allow bullying to persist. Read more>>
The Michigan Senate has hastily approved a set of bills that will further place children at risk. This is truly knee-jerk legislation that moved through the Senate in only three weeks. Lawmakers should have toured cities and held evening public hearings so others could weigh in. Read more>>
When students do not understand how their brains learn and retain material, they can develop misconceptions about themselves as learners — such as a faulty assumption that they are bad at a subject or that they suffer from performance anxiety. Read more>>
The Danielson Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument, available through Frontline’s Professional Growth Solution, was selected by the Illinois Department of Education to help schools meet state-level requirements for the Performance Evaluation Reform Act. Read more>>
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence/Discovery Education/Verizon Foundation
Take A Stand for Healthy Relationships is a new program that provides classrooms with resources to educate students on how to understand and develop healthy relationships, recognize teen dating abuse, and learn how to safely advocate for themselves and others who may be experiencing it. Read more>>
National Heritage Academies/Accelerate Learning
National Heritage Academies, a public charter school system of 84 schools across nine states, has selected STEMscopes NGSS as the science curriculum for its students in grades 6-8. The agreement includes digital resources, supplemental print materials and hands-on exploration kits. Read more>>
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