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Administrators in the Davis, Murray and Alpine school districts signed off on teacher raises this week, adding to a cascade of new salary plans that will boost the pay for Utah's public school educators next year. All three districts also lifted their starting salary levels above $40,000, adding to what has become a new pay floor for teachers in Utah's major school districts. Read more>>
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Former Washington, D.C. Public Schools chancellor Kaya Henderson routinely helped well-connected parents bend or break the rules of the district’s notoriously competitive school lottery to enroll their children at coveted schools, according to a report. Read more>>
LAUSD has more charters and more charter students than any other school system, but they still account for only about 16 percent of enrollment. With a majority on the board though following the election, charter forces could significantly increase those numbers. Read more>>
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How schools can create magic for families and students
Attending a Disney Institute is eye-opening because the lessons are applicable to what we must be doing in our schools. Read more>>
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After years of serving processed, re-heated, pre-packaged lunches, some schools are going back to cooking from scratch. Their goal is to serve meals prepared in an actual kitchen, with fresh ingredients, for thousands of picky kids. Read more>>
When they have no other option, school districts can hire people without teaching certificates—or even a college degree—to fill temporary teacher vacancies. Two years ago, districts reported 527 such individuals teaching in their classrooms. This school year, the number has more than doubled to 1,229. Read more>>
Duval County has 10 times more parents being criminally prosecuted for their kids skipping school than other Florida school districts of a similar size. Currently, 168 Duval County parents are facing criminal charges. Compare that to the four Florida counties that are the most similar in size; they range from zero to 18. Read more>>
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For school districts still getting their financial footing after the Great Recession, the Medicaid changes being advanced as part of the health care overhaul are sounding familiar alarms. Administrators say any reduction in the estimated $4 billion schools receive in annual Medicaid reimbursements would be hard to absorb after years of reduced state funding and a weakened tax base. Read more>>
Any outright ban on for-profit charter schools would not only clean up bad actors; it would also take away an option with really good charter schools that is working for some families. And that's why this debate is not as simple or straightforward as many advocates make it out to be. Read more>>
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Passing standards for diesel engines, finally cleaning up the dirty diesel school bus fleet, ensuring funds for air monitoring, and fully funding and executing the Cleaner Air Oregon recommendations will pull our state up from the bottom of the barrel to join the ranks of states with the best programs in the country. Read more>>
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the 16th largest district in the country, has selected TIPWeb-IT and TIPWeb-IM for asset and instructional material management. This comprehensive districtwide solution will be implemented across the North Carolina school system’s 170 schools to benefit their 145,000 students. Read more>>
Corporate Committee for Library Investment
Information, software, publishing and other businesses as well as multiple national trade associations unveiled the Corporate Committee for Library Investment to advocate for federal library funding. The group formed to tell that story to Congress and other federal policy makers who control library funding and to encourage every American business to do the same. Read more>>
Turnitin has added Lexile measures to its instructional writing program, Revision Assistant, to better help teachers match appropriate texts to individual students and personalize instruction. The Lexile Framework for Reading is the standard for matching student reading levels to text complexity. Read more>>
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Greenon district leaders will meet with state officials to discuss plans to construct a new $54 million school after voters approved a $36 million bond issue to build a new pre-k through 12th grade school. Read more>>
Voters on overwhelmingly approved a $790 million construction bond that would modernize four schools and fund fixes to a slew of safety hazards in nearly every Portland school. The win closes out a painful year of transition for Portland Public Schools that came to a head just weeks prior to the crucial vote. Read more>>
A $187 million bond measure designed to address years of deferred maintenance in Oregon's Lake Oswego School District headed for a victory. The bond will replace a junior high school; fund seismic, safety and technology upgrades; pay for a new district pool; and allow for repairs at all of the district's schools. Read more>>
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