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Mayor Bill de Blasio has blocked New York City’s investigations chief from taking control of an office that monitors corruption in the public school system. He signed an executive order mandating that mayors must approve all removals or appointments of the special commissioner of investigation for the city’s school district. Read more>>
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The way to improve your school’s STEM offerings, and boost the learning of all your students, is to combine commitment from leadership, effective professional learning and high-quality resources. For schools that lay the appropriate groundwork, the resulting benefits can be long-lasting. Read more>>
Lawmakers killed a bill to arm certain teachers, while another proposal allowing armed, off-duty law enforcement officers to provide security in schools advanced in the Tennessee House with bipartisan support. Read more>>
Joined by state, county and local law enforcement officials, one U.S. Attorney in Michigan is promising to pursue and prosecute students and others who make threats against schools. In the month after the Parkland massacre, Michigan had 83 threats against schools, the third-highest total in the nation. Read more>>
Districts in at least 21 states have adopted the four-day school week. Now a new study points to an unintended but perhaps unsurprising consequence of cutting the school week: a spike in juvenile crime. Read more>>
Thousands of teachers and public workers from across Kentucky flocked to the state Capitol to protest potential budget cuts to public education and the passage of a controversial package of changes to the state’s public pension system that teachers had opposed. Read more>>
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra released a policy guide for school officials that lays out how they can protect students from immigration enforcement on school grounds. It details the steps school officials should take if federal immigration agents try to detain someone on campus, or if a child’s parents have been detained or deported. Read more>>
There is a disconnect between what students know when they leave high school and what they are expected to know when they enter college and the workplace. So, how do you prevent this disconnect? Read more>>
We must move beyond systems driven solely by outcome metrics that are snapshots of performance in knowledge and skills; rather our systems should be measured in their ability to support healthy development, build resiliency, and result in students successfully applying learning by both civic contribution and individual advancement. Read more>>
Recent research has offered renewed evidence that structured math and literacy practice in addition to regular parental involvement in school programs during the first eight years of life can have a major impact on a child’s future educational achievement. Read more>>
Oklahoma teachers’ complaints go far beyond compensation. When viewed in the context of their other demands, it’s clear that the strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America’s children: access to effective teachers, high-quality learning materials and modern facilities. Read more>>
With a technology integration with the browser-based 3D Autodesk Tinkercad design and modeling tool, students can “lift” and manipulate models within zSpace Studio’s 3D model library of STEAM content. Read more>>
The new Approval Workflows feature, built into the Campus Suite content management system dashboard, helps school administrators better manage school website content, maintain ADA compliance and stay legal. Read more>>
The new FirstView District Dashboard and Parent App helps districts streamline daily decision-making through centralized, real-time fleet reporting and can efficiently alert parents about school delays or issues. Parents can also quickly receive their student's bus status and district messages. Read more>>
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