TOP NEWS Rockford Register Star A Illinois high school student and her father are suing her school district and several administrators on the grounds that her civil rights were violated because of her support for gun rights. Read more>> Sponsored Sponsored by Gale, a Cengage Company Does the idea of building a PD program across your district feel daunting? Where do you begin? Learn how NYC DOE uses ASCD e-books to improve teacher practice and evaluations modeled after Charlotte Danielson’s rubric—and receive best practices and resources that can help you roll out a comprehensive PD program as well. Read more>> Washington Post Whether religious schools be required to follow state law that mandates students receive education in secular subjects is at the heart of a lawsuit that seeks to prevent New York officials from implementing an exemption recently approved by the state legislature and signed into law that allows private ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools to ignore state rules about how much secular education they must provide. Read more>> WSHU Public Radio New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia took full responsibility for an error in the distribution of some federal funding, which gave $12 million more to 275 charter schools in the state, at the expense of 677 public school districts, including some of the poorest schools in New York. Read more>> From DA Magazine Alison DeNisco The reach of K12 bulk purchasing and co-op agreements has expanded substantially as more districts join to save substantial amounts on everything from software to playground equipment, according to a recent AASA report. Read more>> U.S. News & World Report Of all the bills that stalled out during the Massachusetts Legislature's just-completed formal session, perhaps the one creating the most heartburn is the failure to reach a deal overhauling the state's 25-year-old education funding system. Read more>> MyPalmBeachPost.com Though some 70 percent of the Palm Beach County students are identified as black, Hispanic or something other than white, in the 2016-17 school year those minorities held only 38 percent of the seats in gifted classrooms. However, education officials say they are making headway in terms of improving equity. Read more>> The Oregonian Since 2009, Oregon regulators have had the ability to punish educators in private as a way to give them a conditional second chance, a method that keeps secret from the public not only the conduct of the educator, but the actions of the educator's bosses. Read more>> OPINION The Hechinger Report A blended-learning model—with teachers providing some instruction and students taking classes online—has been finding success for students in juvenile jails. Read more>> USA Today The former star of "The Wonder Years" continues to share her love of math, having written multiple books, including two new ones targeted at preschool-age kids. Read more>> The Atlantic With the release this summer of a new paperback version of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen contends that by providing students an inadequate history education, America’s schools breed adults who tend to conflate empirical fact and opinion, and who lack the media literacy necessary to navigate conflicting information. Read more>> District Administration Survey District Administration Schools are boosting the accuracy of history and social studies instruction by focusing on the contributions of minorities, the LGBT community and other previously marginalized groups. If this is a priority in your district, we'd like to include your input in an upcoming feature. Click here to become a source. Read more>> INDUSTRY NEWS Transportation Services Co. The nationwide program provides capital to school districts and transportation providers to combat the growing vehicle replacement backlog plaguing their school bus fleets. Read more>> ✭ Visit the District Administration's PR Portal ✭ | 