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.
Learning Resources' newest offering brings basic coding skills to kids as young as four. The pets in Meet the Coding Critters introduce real coding concepts through fun and interactive storybook coding adventures.
Keeping the network secure is no longer enough in today's classrooms. In this e-book, find out how IT personnel must also work to protect end-user devices and help ensure the physical safety of students.
For three years, the Florida Legislature has told school districts to reduce their property tax rates so their revenue would remain flat as assessed values rose. They made one exception, allowing districts to benefit from the value of new construction. As the state's economy matures into a 10th year of continuous growth, lawmakers might want to reconsider their position.
Students may never read another work of classical literature after they graduate, but they'll see things on social media every day. Few skills could be more important these days than knowing when the news they are consuming or producing is credible, and when it's fake.
New projections with much lower enrollment growth come after Wake County voters approved a $548 million school construction bond referendum. Amid complaints that the bond wasn't needed, school administrators emphasized that two-thirds of the money will go toward renovations and pay for new schools in high-growth areas.
The Maryland district's school board voted to close a handful of schools, adding to the dozens that have been shuttered in the district over the past decade. The vote on the latest round of closures comes as the Baltimore district grapples with how to handle a shrinking student population and many low-performing schools.
Use great fiction as a launch pad to help your ravenous and reluctant learners find that spark of curiosity. In the "Andy Weir and the Unintended Consequences of Curiosity" essay by Gillian King-Cargile, the STEM Read director at Northern Illinois University, find out how asking good questions can lead to great things for your students.
After the 2016 presidential election, teachers across the country reported they were seeing increased name-calling and bullying. Now, research shows junior high school student in Virginia areas that favored Trump reported bullying rates in spring 2017 that were 18 percent higher than students living in areas that went for Clinton.
After seeing kids' reading proficiency lag in both poor and wealthy families, one Massachusetts school district took a hard look at how teachers were teaching reading. Educators realized mistakes and teachers then got trained in the science of how reading works and how children should be taught. Ultimately, this training helped students read.
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