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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that an Illinois state worker does not have to belong to a union, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for workers across the country, including teachers. Read more>>
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Literacy Symposium 2018 is the summer's premier online professional development event where literacy experts, like Dr. Louisa Moats, will connect theory to practice. Read more>>
The school board of Broward County, Fla., voted to put an armed guard on every campus in the district with the exception of charter schools. Although most schools in the district already have armed police officers, the decision calls for at least one extra armed security guard. Read more>>
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Boosting the supply of school counselors and expanding mental health services for students were among the recommendations state lawmakers heard during a House Public Education Committee meeting on school safety. Read more>>

Jeremy Baugh, principal at Lew Wallace School 107 in Indianapolis, has implemented the Opportunity Culture initiative, where excellent teachers receive higher salaries to coach teams of educators. Read more>>
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FBI leaders and local law enforcement officials are studying shootings in schools to piece together trends and come up with ways to prevent future violence. Hosted at FBI headquarters, dozens of officials discussed common warning signs of shooters, information sharing among law enforcement and response plans by schools. Read more>>
Mayor Bill de Blasio was responding to a parent who asked why he’s focusing so much energy on trying to diversify classrooms at the city’s eight specialized high schools by scrapping its mandatory admission testing rather than resolving the racial “inequity” getting into the schools. Read more>>
Four of six so-called turnaround schools in Polk County made the grade and will stay under direct school district management, according to Florida's 2017-18 school year scorecard. The twp failing schools will go under the management of Educational Directions, a Kentucky-based school consultancy. Read more>>

Union leaders and many of the millions of teacher members are angry and worried about what the new court ruling means for the future of teachers unions. Unions may lose members and money, spend proportionately more money on political lobbying, and have less power to oppose school choice and other education reform. Read more>>
Despite the centrality of curiosity to all scientific endeavors, there’s a relative dearth of studies on the subject itself. Fortunately, scientists are actively unraveling this concept and, in the process, making a convincing case that we can and should teach young minds to embrace their inquisitive nature. Read more>>

A study finds that early registration deadlines for Boston’s school choice program tended to trip up black, Hispanic and low-income families. Because they move more frequently, they are applying later and get less of a chance to pick from the high-achieving district schools. The result ends up undermining one goal of these choice systems. Read more>>
The new Incident IQ Apps Architecture enables immediate, efficient support for dozens of K12 technologies, including Infinite Campus, Skyward, Brainingcamp, Khan Academy, and other learning applications and systems. Read more>>
Amazon began its Back to School and Off to College stores where parents, students and educators can discover classroom supplies and dorm room essentials. New this year, teens 13 through 17 years old can get their own Amazon login under their parent’s account and shop independently using the Amazon App. Read more>>
Content from Scholastic GO! and ScienceFlix will be paired with IBM’s Watson Education Platform to give teachers the ability to customize recommendations of a variety of nonfiction content, that aligns with curriculum standards and has multiple, leveled articles and media, based on a student’s individual learning progression. Read more>>
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The cost now to address poor building conditions in the Detroit Public Schools Community District is estimated at $500 million. If the district does nothing now, that cost will spiral to nearly $1.4 billion in five years, according to a facilities review. Read more>>
Public schools have enough challenges without students and teachers being forced to deal with broken air conditioners, leaky roofs and outdated facilities. Yet that is the situation faced by many of Florida’s public schools, due to state lawmakers providing inadequate funding for school facilities. Read more>>
North Carolina residents are likely to vote this fall on amendments to change the state constitution, but they won't get a chance to decide on funding for school construction. Calls for a $1.9 billion statewide school construction bond referendum were among the demands made by the 19,000 teachers who marched in May. Read more>>
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