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As Ohio education officials begin a new round of charter-school attendance reviews, at least two online schools are returning hundreds of thousands of dollars after inflated enrollment numbers caused them to get excess state aid. Read more>>
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There have been 745 bomb scares in U.S. schools from October 2015 to January 2016, with 75 of those in Massachusetts. According to a new study, the state has the highest number of bomb scares, followed by Ohio with 59 reported threats. Read more>>
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One part of Superintendent Meria Carstarphen’s plan to turn around some of the city’s worst schools has been approved. Five Atlanta schools will be managed by charter school groups, making the school system the first in Georgia to hire charter school groups to run local public schools. Read more>>
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"The Superintendent and the CFO" and other reading picks for district leaders
Other recommended books focus on rewiring the brain for critical thinking, how principals can hone leadership skills and how to teach energy concepts across all science disciplines. Read more>>
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Six of the Virginia city's schools may close to help close the gap on the mayor's new proposed budget and spending plan. The budget only includes $5 million of the $18 million requested to fix aging school buildings and address safety and health concerns. Read more>>
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Arkansas Connections Academy, a full-time statewide virtual public charter school, has been approved by the Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel and State Board of Education to begin serving students in grades K-9 statewide in the 2016-17 school year. Enrollment is now open for up to 600 students across the state. Read more>>
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Cracking under the fiscal and political pressure and buckling under additional responsibilities placed on them as school districts cut administrative staff, superintendents in Pennsylvania spend only about three years in the post, according to a 2014 study from the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators. Read more>>
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Part of the problem is resources: Texas cut $5.4 billion from its public-schools budget during the recession, and the state’s method of allocating revenue hurts lower-income districts in particular. Schools in places such as El Paso are struggling to find the funds and the format to help low-income, Spanish-speaking students. Read more>>
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It's tough to give up control, especially in the classroom. Giving up control means opening oneself up to the possibility that children may fail and that any number of outcomes could unearth themselves. But some of these outcomes could be exactly what learners need, and most likely, even better than what we, as educators, could offer. Read more>>
If a Pennsylvania school district sees its demographics shift toward more special education students or those who are still learning English, they will still get the same outdated funding that assumes their students don't have unique needs. The state needs a student-weighted funding formula. Read more>>
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I’m sorry to see elementary schools clinging to the homework paradigm despite the evidence that this makes very little difference to children’s achievement or development. But it’s even sadder to see the parental nervousness around what might happen to a student who has hours open to create, think, read, interact with others, imagine, run. Read more>>
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Longwood Gardens and the American Society for Horticultural Science launched the Seed Your Future initiative, a multi-year national effort to combat declining awareness of horticulture and promote horticulture as a career path. More than 150 partner organizations have already signed on to the initiative, which will start with educating middle school, high school and college students and their parents. Read more>>
Easy to scaffold, the littleBits STEAM Student Set toolbox supports learners in grades 3-8 with 19 Bits—littleBits’ electronic building blocks—and 38 accessories. The teacher’s guide provides companion lessons, curricular connections, implementation strategies and helpful tips. Read more>>
With a selection of color and black and white multifunction printers from 25 to 60 pages per minute, Ricoh's Multifunction Printer for Education Series is designed to integrate with schools' Learning Management Systems, cloud storage and print management software solutions to help students and faculty members work, collaborate and learn. Read more>>
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