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Georgia’s highest court ruled that a law prohibiting insulting or verbally abusing a public school employee in front of students is unconstitutional. A Georgia man was charged in early 2015 under a law that makes it a crime to insult or abuse a public school teacher, administrator or bus driver in front of students at school or on a bus. Read more>>
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Together with community and judicial partners, Bay City's Washington Elementary is one of the first schools in Michigan to launch an in-house health center to address medical and behavioral issues for its large population of at-risk students. Read more>>
Aggressively closing or replacing failing schools was a major goal of the Cleveland Plan in 2012, but one that has been scaled far back from what the Plan first called for. The major effort with "failing" schools named 23 of them as "investment schools" and put them on an improvement plan, instead of targeting them for closure. Read more>>
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DA to launch special annual issue for Districts of Distinction
DA’s Districts of Distinction program, which honors innovative projects in America’s public school districts, will be showcased in a special annual edition of the magazine each July, starting in 2017. Nominations for the 2017 award year will be accepted from January 15 through March 1. Read more>>
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A number of small district have discouraged students from enrolling in college classes—or shooed from its buildings those who do. While taking the classes in high school can save students and their families thousands of dollars in college tuition, the state student aid money that would normally go to rural districts' high schools goes to the college instead. Read more>>
The nine candidates vying for seats on the D.C. State Board of Education agree that addressing disparities and inequities in the city’s schools should be a top priority. The board’s role was dramatically altered after the District’s schools were put under mayoral control a decade ago. Read more>>
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Public Schools’ overall 2016 graduation rate fell slightly, slipping .4 percentage points to 71.5 percent. That’s below the state average of about 79 percent. At 11 of 20 high schools, Atlanta’s Class of 2016 graduated at lower rates than their predecessors, according to Georgia Department of Education data. Read more>>
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Admissions essays by parents or professionals are unfair to kids and useless to colleges. Why not take the final high school candidates and offer them a chance to write an essay or a paragraph when they arrive at an interview? Change up the questions and allow the students to produce their work directly in front of you. Read more>>
The tone of this presidential election has led many to call for an urgent improvement of civic education in America. Civic education can teach citizens how to deliberate, even when they have political differences. It can enable citizens to find solutions to many problems such as school attendance, economic development or community safety. Read more>>
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A positive school climate is something educators and communities should prioritize—especially as a way to bridge the elusive achievement gap. There's no link between school climate and socioeconomic status. In other words, there are plenty of happy schools in low-income neighborhoods, too. Read more>>
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Brockton Public Schools has purchased ScholarChip’s ID Manager, Building Attendance, Large Group Attendance and Mobile Hallway Monitoring services for its 23 schools. The smart ID card-based automation allows administrators to monitor school attendance in real time. Read more>>
State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education and Public Consulting Group (PCG) have partnered to provide online professional learning opportunities for teachers focused on the new arts standards, via PCG's Pepper platform. Read more>>
The Stepping Stones Pre-K Comprehensive Mathematics program provides a variety of developmentally appropriate resources that engage preschoolers as they begin to learn mathematics. Read more>>
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