TOP NEWS The Kansas City Star A newly appointed Missouri Board of Education member helped secure the 5-3 vote needed to remove Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven, completing a long-term goal of Gov. Eric Greitens. Read more>> From DA Magazine Steven Wyman-Blackburn Bellevue School District in Washington transformed its one-story Sammamish High School into a three-story educational facility. Read more>> 7 News Boston A former substitute teacher is facing serious charges after officials say she offered marijuana to students at a middle school in New Hampshire. Read more>> The Kansas City Star A newly appointed Missouri Board of Education member helped secure the 5-3 vote needed to remove Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven, completing a long-term goal of Gov. Eric Greitens. Read more>> ABC News More than 30 states now offer some assistance for parents to send their children to private or religious schools or to pay for outside services, but North Carolina has quickly jumped near the head of the class with three taxpayer-funded school-choice initiatives. Read more>> Omaha World-Herald Test scores released last week indicate less than a third of the 22,300 Nebraska students who took the ACT exam during state testing in the spring met ACT benchmarks designed to predict success in typical college freshman math, science and English courses. Read more>> 7 News Boston A former substitute teacher is facing serious charges after officials say she offered marijuana to students at a middle school in New Hampshire. Read more>> OPINION The Hechinger Report Yes, America needs a child care revolution, but it’s not happening soon. Here are some tips on how to cope in the interim. Read more>> Washington Post A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that many states with voucher programs and education savings accounts do not inform parents of students with disabilities how their rights change when a child transfers to private school through a choice program. Read more>> Chicago Tribune For at least two decades, the average time spent on English language arts in Illinois public schools has dwarfed instruction time in math—and it still does—but the gap has narrowed as math time has increased. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS McGraw-Hill Education About 80 percent of K12 educators believe English learner (EL) instruction is a priority for their school or district, yet they indicated that more professional development opportunities and different types of learning materials are needed, McGraw-Hill Education found in its 2017 EL Education Report. Read more>> NAF The graduation rates of students considered "at risk" in NAF schools are approximately 16 percent higher than students attending regular public high schools, a recent study found about NAF's educational design. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ | 