Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:45pm
School districts, local governments, and non-profit agencies in New Jersey can now use cooperative purchasing contracts awarded by national programs such as the PEPPM Technology Bidding and Purchasing Program and the Keystone Purchasing Network.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:43pm
Numonics Corporation announced CleverTouch, its newest optical interactive touchscreen overlay designed for easy installation over commercial flat panel displays creating an interactive environment with a connected computer.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:40pm
"To advertise or not to advertise," that is the question — at least in the minds of many school districts feeling the pinch of Pennsylvania's cuts to education spending.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:38pm
More than 170 high schools across Idaho have signed up to participate in the first one-third of schools receiving laptops in the state’s "one-to-one" initiative in 2013.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:36pm
Students at Catholic high schools in Brockton and Braintree, and others in grades 7 through 12 in Kingston, will start the next school year with iPads instead of papers and books in their backpacks, part of a growing number of schools looking to trade traditional learning tools for the latest technology.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:34pm
School officials have informed all 115 North Carolina school districts to perform inspections on school buses after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg bus caught fire.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:32pm
The William Penn Foundation is donating $1.5 million to help restructure the Philadelphia School District, and officials said Wednesday they thought the move could bring more funds from the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:30pm
A bill to allow Utah schools to drop sex education classes — and prohibit instruction in the use of contraception in those that keep the courses — moved significantly closer to becoming law Wednesday. The House passed HB363 by a 45-28 vote after a late-afternoon debate that centered largely on lawmakers’ differing definitions of morality.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:50pm
This city's school board voted Wednesday to shake up the teaching staffs at 17 low-performing public schools, handing Mayor Rahm Emanuel a victory in his battle with the teachers union and highlighting an increasingly aggressive stance on education overhauls by a number of Democratic mayors nationwide.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:42pm
While our society is more diverse than ever before, schools are more segregated today than they were 30 years ago.
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