Why more states are getting serious about sunscreen

Sunscreen is considered an over-the-counter drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and therefore by almost all schools. That means kids can’t bring it to school without a doctor’s note. A Utah legislator introduced legislation this year to allow kids to bring sunscreen to school, joining 10 other states that already have lifted the ban. Read more>>

South Dakota's Board of Education made rules broader for school superintendents to retain local control in evaluating their principals and assistant principals. School districts would still need to adopt an evaluation system based on standards that are in state rules. Read more>>

Ohio school's CEO Paolo DeMaria maintains that vouchers create the competition that improves public schools. A proposal in state Senate that would modify Ohio's voucher program by combining the state’s five voucher programs is getting a qualified endorsement from the superintendent of the state's schools. Read more>>

Ohio school's CEO Paolo DeMaria maintains that vouchers create the competition that improves public schools. A proposal in state Senate that would modify Ohio's voucher program by combining the state’s five voucher programs is getting a qualified endorsement from the superintendent of the state's schools. Read more>>

A recent overhaul of Oklahoma’s state assessments and school accountability system means a longer wait to see the results of students’ test scores and school report cards. The changes to state assessments include the omission of a U.S. history test for the 2017-2018 school year and the addition of a science test for 11th-grader students. Read more>>

Top officials of the state Department of Education said they are encouraged by the federal response to the state's plan for revamping public schools in Louisiana. The changes, including new rules in how public school letter grades are calculated, are set to take effect for the 2017-2018 school year. Read more>>

Janet Poppendieck, a nationally recognized scholar and activist whose work focuses on poverty, hunger and food assistance in the United States, is the author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America. Read more>>

Let’s establish a unionized, worker-owned cooperative to transport students in non-polluting (and air-conditioned) electric school buses. For the pilot, we envision the worker cooperative entering into a contract with a board of education to provide service. Read more>>

As a way to make budget cuts, some districts have increased pre-K class sizes. Unfortunately, until Oklahoma’s revenue situation straightens out and lawmakers make sure education is funded properly, we’re going to continue to see administrators forced to make unpopular decisions. We don't want to see pre-K students put at disadvantage because of larger class sizes Read more>>

Are the public schools perfect? Hardly. Anyone invested in a school, even a good one, will have a list of ways to improve. But the perception gap is real and consequential—fostering interventionist policy, stigmatizing schools and exacerbating segregation. In acting on perception, Americans have done great harm to their public schools. Read more>>

Leveraging its Intelligent Adaptive Learning engine along with real-time student proficiency data, DreamBox’s MyFlexPD solution provides educators with a dashboard overview of where students are in their learning progression, along with corresponding professional development options. Read more>>

As a part of a new partnership with Discovery Education, Tippecanoe School Corporation has selected Science Techbook for use in the district’s K5 classrooms and the Social Studies Techbook for use in the schools system’s eighth grade social studies classrooms. Read more>>

The Global Teaching Project launched a new initiative, The Mississippi Public School Consortium for Education Access, to provide Advanced Placement courses for underserved students. The three-year pilot is starting in seven rural Mississippi school districts that have extremely limited curricula for students with the potential for high academic achievement. Read more>>

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Sparta Middle School principal, Rocky Valentine, just received a promotion to become the next superintendent of the Missouri district. He will replace longtime Sparta Superintendent Jeff Hyatt, who resigned to take the top school job in Gainesville. Read more>>

After several months in limbo, the Wilson School District has a new leader. The school board hired Richard H. Faidley as superintendent of schools. He has been superintendent of the Boyertown School District for four years. Read more>>