Legislators are set to take up a bill that would require public schools and charter schools in New Mexico to have at least one full-time, licensed nurse on campus. The bill does allow some exceptions, such as for rural schools with fewer than 250 students or if a part-time nurse was able to fill the position.

Student poverty rate increased only 2 percentage points after schools adopted a new lunch program for all, a Missouri study finds. Although the new data does overstate poverty within some schools, most schools that chose to participate in the new free-lunch-for-all program tended to have high levels of poverty to start with.

A veteran educator is returning to the area to serve as the Treynor School District's next superintendent. Mark Hopkins, currently the department chair for K12 programs at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, will be the Iowa district's next top administrator.

itslearning announced that Durango School District R-9 has selected the itslearning teaching and learning platform to deliver personalized, competency-based learning districtwide.

The POWERUP 4.0 is a propulsion motor that adapts to almost any paper airplane design and transforms it into a flying machine. On land, the POWERUP RACERS Motorized Origami Vehicles transform a paper creation into a motorized car, boat or airplane. With OKO Multi View, a smartphone's camera can be turned into an augmented reality tool or binoculars.

Restorative justice reduced average suspension rates in elementary and middle schools in Pittsburgh, a recent study found. Teachers thought their school climates improved. That was the good news. The bad news was that students reported that teachers become more lax in terms of classroom management. Perhaps more concerning was what researchers found it did to student achievement.

The core concepts are delivered online by Flipped Learning Global Initiative, a curator of Flipped Learning best practices. Educators' access the content via short videos on their own time and pace. This is followed by practical application delivered by certified on-site facilitators who customize and localize immersive hands-on workshops and support.

PowerSchool announced that PowerSchool SIS, its student information system, was selected by the Alabama State Department of Education to provide services for 750,000 students at public schools and districts throughout the state.