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Voters approved the vast majority of school referenda in Tuesday’s elections. Of the 67 referendums held by school districts in Wisconsin, only 12 failed. Overall, Wisconsin voters approved $803.83 million in new borrowing for capital improvements at an average of more than $23,642,000. Read more>>
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Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises recommended five school closures during the annual 2016-17 school portfolio review. The closure recommendations must be accepted by the Board of School Commissioners and then go though a period of public feedback before the closures go into effect. Read more>>
The career counseling and support program is open to any student in Kalamazoo Public Schools, but last year mentors focused solely on African American boys, whose graduation rate is the lowest of any group at the district. Now in its second year, the program tripled the number of mentors and expanded to include female staff members as role models for young girls. Read more>>
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Financial analysts at one Wall Street rating agency dropped Chicago Public Schools' credit rating again, less than a week before the district is expected to sell hundreds of millions of dollars in long-term bonds. Concerns mentioned include the district's reliance on short-term borrowing to cover daily expenses, plus $55 million in costs added to this year's budget. Read more>>
The Florida Department of Education wants to know more about why a high number of students chose to stay at four under performing schools in Duval County, even though they could have moved. As part of approved turnaround plans for those schools, the state required Duval to enroll every student at a better performing school. Read more>>
The controversial A-F report card just lost its letters. The data forming the report cards will be released in December, including achievement, graduation rates and learning gains, but without letter grades accompanying them. The Alabama state board of education approved revised rules to implement the school grading system. Read more>>
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Experts emphasize that there is no one-size-fits-all model for after-school programs, but a growing body of research raises questions about the emphasis on more-structured activities. It’s not an issue of play vs. learn, experts said. But evidence suggests kids learn best when they’re allowed to play. Read more>>
We need to empower our teachers to help “instruct” America back to civility. They have the soapbox and opportunity—with the daily, captive attention of millions of American children—to teach civility and respect. In the process, perhaps our children can teach the rest of America how to play nice in the sandbox. Read more>>
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IntegratePLUS provides school districts with the ability to integrate their vast network of software applications, ranging from transportation, facilities management, library services, learning management systems, payment processing, cafeteria programs and document management. Read more>>
iCivics has released an updated and expanded version of Executive Command. The game, designed for grades 4-12, shows students the many roles and responsibilities of the presidency, including making decisions about both foreign and domestic policy. Read more>>
OnCourse Learning is launching an initiative to make educational accomplishments clearly understandable and quickly verifiable via digital badges. Once earned, digital badges can be shared on social networking sites, email signatures, digital resumes and internal corporate profiles or websites. Read more>>
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Michael Raso, currently serving as the Bettendorf Community District interim superintendent, was initially hired by the district in July 2008 as the assistant superintendent. Raso has now been named permanently to the position, replacing Theron Schutte, who left to head up Marshalltown CSD. Read more>>
The Averill Park Board of Education has appointed James Franchini as the New York district's next superintendent. Franchini, currently the assistant superintendent for finance and operations for the Voorheesville district, will succeed James Hoffman, who is retiring at the school year's end. Read more>>
The Florida school district voted in favor of hiring former district employee Tim Forson as superintendent. Forson was an employee with St. Johns County School District for 36 years and retired in the spring from his position as deputy superintendent of operations. Read more>>
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