One Michigan charter school, Eagle's Nest Academy in Flint, is now requiring clear backpacks in the hopes that the move will help curb school violence. However, parents won't have to spend their own money for the new backpacks as the school will provide the new clear ones to all students.
To deter hackers, the IT team at Campbell County Public Schools in Virginia has deleted email addresses listed on the district website's staff directory. Now, teachers and administrators communicate with parents through the student information system, the parent portal and direct emails.
Sarasota school board members are considering a district-wide ban on any cellphone use during school, regardless of age or grade. In a previous proposed idea, elementary school students would have no access to their phones, while middle and high school students would have restricted access.
About 33,000 kindergartners and first-graders in New York City will have access to free eyeglasses this year through an expanded partnership with the eyewear firm Warby Parker, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. More than 140,000 kids will get free eye exams from the city's Department of Health.
Texas Tech's College of Education recently received grant funding from the Texas Education Agency that will be used to expand efforts to increase the quality and diversity of teachers in rural school districts. The $484,000 grant will also enable the university to expand its partnership from five to 11 school districts.
Cleburne ISD teachers will now have full access to Nearpod's premium content—such as digital citizenship, engagement-boosting tools and virtual reality—as well as in-person training, support and professional development resources.
Carnegie Mellon University's free, online curriculum for high school students helps instructors teach programming skills using graphics and animations. Now being piloted in 40 schools, the Computer Science Academy's CS1 will be available for general use this fall, free of charge.
Catapult Learning and the Center on Teaching and Learning (CTL) are establishing the Institute for Scaling Evidence-Based Education. The partnership, which initially calls for Catapult Learning to provide professional development for CTL's Enhanced Core Reading Instruction program, plans to cover CTL's full suite of programs and services.
The interim has been made permanent. The Alaskan district's board of education voted to confirm Bridget Weiss as the permanent superintendent rather than expand the search nationwide. She has been serving as the interim since August since Mark Miller departed.
Currently the deputy and associate superintendent of student services at the Ventura County Office of Education, Roger Rice has been named as superintendent of the Ventura USD in California. He takes over from Superintendent David Creswell, who resigned in December.
Assistant Superintendent Catherine Carbone has been chosen to lead the Connecticut city's school system after Superintendent Sue Moreau retires. Carbone had served as a senior administrator in the Hartford schools, and before that spent seven years as a middle school principal.
School district officials said they will make a new proposal to the teachers union Friday in an effort to avoid a planned strike Monday. The offer reportedly includes additional funding to reduce class sizes and provide more support for teachers.
The House Education Committee's said that public schools should spend 85 percent of its funding in the classroom. But unless more revenue is provided, there will be less money to provide custodial, maintenance, secretarial, health and other supports services. Teachers will be doing more than just educating their students if this happens.
Students addicted to drugs or alcohol in high school, then heading to college, create an environment where the mental health, safety and security of the entire student body is at risk. We can address the addiction crisis earlier; recovery literacy could provide that desperately needed foundation of change.
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