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School districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, "appropriately ambitious" progress, the Supreme Court said in a ruling. The decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District could have far-reaching implications for the 6.5 million students with disabilities in the United States. Read more>>
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Georgia Senate committee passed a bill requiring that elementary schools plan for recess. While the bill orders elementary schools to “schedule” recess for all K5 students, it also contains caveats that would allow a school to veer from that schedule for field trips, “conflicts” at recess time, inclement weather or “acts of God.” Read more>>
The Topeka Capitol-Journal
A much-anticipated school finance bill includes a $75 million boost to school budgets—a figure well below estimates of what it might take to address a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling against the state. School administrators and lawmakers were scrambling to understand the contents of the draft legislation ahead of hearings. Read more>>
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Does your district use virtual reality as a core instructional tool in career-training and other K12 instruction? We want to hear about the new learning opportunities it provides and how it may even save money on resources like dissection samples and manufacturing equipment. Please follow the link to connect with us. Read more>>
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Evansville Courier & Press
This legislative session, lawmakers are proposing a one-time $500 per pupil incentive if schools do consolidate. The provision is in the budget passed by the House and the chamber added the provision in to a separate Senate bill dedicated to clearing up how districts with debt can consolidate. Read more>>
A Texas Senate committee kicked off its first round of hearings on a controversial measure that would establish educational savings accounts and tax credit scholarships to fund costs associated with parents moving their children from traditional public schools to private, parochial or charter schools. Read more>>
Proposed legislation that would require guidelines for religious expression in Indiana's public schools passed the Senate Education Committee, with an amendment altering the original intent. The section struck from the bill would have given student’s time and a microphone at assemblies or sporting events to discuss their different faith beliefs. Read more>>
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Personalized learning reshapes school PD
Hattiesburg School District designs technology training to empower teachers to take charge of their own professional development by letting them decide what they want to learn, when they want to learn it and how. Read more>>
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A new survey of foreign exchange students who spent time in U.S. high schools last year finds that nine in 10 of them think school back home is more challenging. And the percentage who think so has grown a recent study found. Read more>>
Students at schools that contract with a healthier school-lunch vendor perform somewhat better on state tests—and this option appears highly cost-effective compared to policy interventions that typically are more expensive, like class-size reduction. Read more>>
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More than a decade ago, the Legislature passed a robust set of graduation requirements for students. The Michigan Merit Curriculum made a diploma worth something, and while there have been growing pains, the benefits far outweigh any drawbacks for schools. The latest attempts to weaken the standards shouldn’t gain traction. Read more>>
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Chipotle released RAD Lands, an original, unbranded video series about food for kids between the ages of 7 and 10. In partnership with Discovery Education, RAD Lands in School is an online program for elementary students. Lesson plans and activities being developed by Discovery Education’s curriculum team will be paired with RAD Lands' health and science-focused segments. Read more>>
Edmentum, Inc./MetaMetrics
Edmentum and MetaMetrics are partnering to give educators enhanced assessment tools to better determine individualized learning paths for students. Student reading abilities will now be reported as Lexile measures through the Edmentum Exact Path adaptive reading assessment. Read more>>
Flocabulary, an interactive learning platform that uses educational hip-hop to engage students, launched its first ever mobile app. The app features more than 800 educational hip-hop videos on subjects ranging from history and math to social studies, language arts and life skills. Read more>>
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Nine school construction projects that will cost nearly $300 million were approved by Chicago’s Board of Education despite unanswered questions and controversy surrounding them. Three schools are estimated to cost about $173 million and annexes for six elementary schools will cost up about $20 million each. Read more>>
The News Service of Florida via The Palm Beach Post
If Florida lawmakers don’t agree to borrow money to pay for school construction and maintenance projects, they will come up about $36 million short of what state education officials have requested for a key program next year. Read more>>
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