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The National Association of School Psychologists and the National Association of School Resource Officers offer guidance on armed assailant training.
An AI camera live streaming high schools sports? Even replacing an entire camera crew to broadcast a junior varsity soccer game? That’s no longer a player’s or a parent’s (or an athletic director’s) wildest fantasy.
The ongoing teachers’ strike roiling this city is highlighting renewed support for teachers unions and traditional public schools within the Democratic Party, eclipsing a push by some party members to embrace charter schools and other education options.
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike has now been going on for five days. Teachers have been pointing out that California spends less per student on public schools than many other states.
Denver teachers union members embodied the civics lessons some teach, exercising their right to vote Saturday for or against a strike after the union rejected Denver Public Schools’ late Friday night pay structure proposal.
Soaring special education costs are squeezing the budgets of Minnesota schools — and quickly becoming school districts’ top priority for the new legislative session.
Some high-poverty school districts are bracing for the fact that federally funded lunch programs could become a casualty of the government shutdown if it drags on for another month.
Trent Young says he was stunned on a Friday afternoon when the director of the school for which he worked, Utah Career Path High School, asked he and other teachers to hang up a bunch of glossy posters advertising the school.
A former Canton High School student is suing the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools in court, alleging district officials failed to stop bullying by her ex-boyfriend that caused her to try to kill herself.
The competition gap is widening in high-school athletics, but the problem is bigger than high-school sports. Washington’s interscholastic athletic association believes it has found a socioeconomic factor that can help level the playing field.
High school students in the Maryland district will soon be able to get free condoms at their school nurse’s office in a program officials say is aimed at reducing the spread of chlamydia, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections.
Tacoma Public Schools Superintendent Carla Santorno weighs in on other topics confronted by today’s K12 administrators. Standards Link to main story: Tacoma Public Schools superintendent creates an opportunity engine “The best […]
The two words, “these kids,” frustrate Superintendent Carla Santorno more than any other phrase. It’s used by some educators as a kind of secret code and a flimsy excuse for academic failure among marginalized students, she says.
Teacher: Helen Davis, grade 4: “She let me know I had worth” Childhood aspiration: Translator at the UN Pastime/hobby: My grandkids, Hallmark Christmas movies and old-time radio shows from the […]
A software error caused public school students around North Carolina to receive incorrect end-of-term grades this school year. The software incorrectly rounded class grades up or down.
The fire that devastated Paradise has left all but two of it’s small school system’s buildings shuttered. Almost half of the town’s 3,400 students have left.
Los Angeles hasn’t seen a teachers strike in 30 years, and the risks are huge. But nearly 100 percent of the union members voted to strike because they believe it is necessary if public education is going to be restored to its rightful status as one of the Golden State’s great attractions.
All students benefit when K12 districts can build a diverse group of educators
Four superintendents look ahead to 2019 in education, and forecast where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short. These district leaders discussed a range of topics, including assessment, accountability and flipped learning.
If today’s students are expected to direct their own learning, teachers have to be prepared to do the same. One of the best ways to do that is to let […]
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