Schools and districts are encouraged to participate in Say Something week

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe awarded $6 million in School Security Equipment Grants to protect students and teachers in 104 school divisions. Grants will pay for items, such as video monitoring systems, metal detectors, classroom locks, electronic-access controls and visitor-identification systems. Read more>>

The Oklahoma State Department of Education has been awarded one of the largest grants in the agency’s history, a $21 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education to boost literacy in children from birth through 12th grade. Read more>>

An employee brought a gun to school one day after an elementary school in Lycoming County received a threatening voice mail. Read more>>

Schools across Puerto Rico are still largely closed since Hurricane Maria hit. But two have opened as school leaders try to bring some normalcy to students' lives. Read more>>

A lawsuit over restrictions on talk about homosexuality in Utah classrooms has been settled after the state changed the law in a case that sets the stage for challenges to similar measures in other states, LGBT-rights groups said last week. Read more>>

During the week of October 16 -20, 2017, schools across the country will be participating in Sandy Hook Promise’s Say Something Week. It is a no-cost program that teaches students in grades 6-12 how to look for warning signs, signals and threats—especially in social media—from individuals who may want to hurt themselves or others and to say something to a trusted adult to get them help. Read more>>

Text messages are one of the most effective ways to keep high school students on track once they’ve begun the college application and enrollment process. Read more>>

In California, an alarming number of students are forced to balance school with the struggle of lacking a stable home. Read more>>

It’s getting lonely at the top of the class in high school—or very crowded—as more schools alter or do away with the traditional role of valedictorian. While some schools no longer hail a single student with the best grade-point average, others are granting the distinction to anyone who gets at least a 4.0 GPA. Read more>>

New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-K seats to the school system over the course of two years. Now, for the first time, the city's public schools are offering programs targeted at even younger toddlers: 3-year-olds. Read more>>

Desert Sands USD has chosen to implement Edupoint Educational Systems' Synergy Student Information System, which includes the fully-integrated Synergy Online Registration and Synergy Assessment modules. Read more>>

K6 classrooms where ORIGO Stepping Stones 2.0 is used to teach math are even more dynamic this year with the new interactive Slate tools. Slate can be run from a computer or tablet and with it, a teacher can “cast” a lesson up to a Smartboard. Read more>>

With the latest updates to the itslearning learning management system, users can review reports across schools and courses, on historical data and trends as well as detailed accounts of current platform use, curriculum management and student progress. Read more>>

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