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A dispute between the Alaska Legislature and Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration over school funding isn’t likely to disrupt state payments to districts or affect the start of the school year. But both sides expect a lawsuit on the issue. And the state’s Department of Law says a court order will be needed to send the payments out.
The idea of a classroom that can be rearranged to fit the activity has faced some pushback. Open classroom critics argued in the 1970s that schools had attempted an overnight transformation without training teachers on how to adjust to the new space. Educators today have issued similar warnings.
Illuminate Education, a student performance system provider, is rolling out significant enhancements to its eduCLIMBER, DnA, SchoolCity SUITE, Achievement Dashboard and Inspect PLUS products this summer.
The California district's new fiscal plan will avoid a state takeover for now. However, the district cut nearly 400 teachers and school positions, and teachers and administrators are still deadlocked over labor negotiations.
Drivers in Las Vegas now have a new way to pay for parking tickets that will help out students. Drivers who receive parking infractions between during part of June and July can have their ticket fees satisfied by bringing in school supplies.
Portland Public Schools may allow teachers to delay the release of certain records for up to seven days. It would allow employees to weigh in, too, on whether the requested documents qualify as a personal privacy exemption.
The Government Accountability Office published a report finding that many school systems do a poor job of tracking instances of seclusion and restraint, making it difficult for the Education Department to ensure that schools are not using the practices excessively.
A resolution quietly adopted by the Denver school board limits the scope of expansion of several charter school networks, and assigns a deadline to any new school that wants to open. New schools must now begin planning to open in earnest within three years of being approved.
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Talking through emotions instead of punishing students is now the focus in the New York City school system. The city is adding 85 new licensed social workers, limiting suspensions to 20 days, and has overhauled its agreement with the New York Police Department's involvement in schools.
ProctorU announced that students will be able to take the Google Cloud G Suite certification exam from their classroom with online proctored delivery. A facilitator can now register and schedule a group of students together as well as allow test-takers to be proctored simultaneously from one location.
Bringing transformational digital leadership to a K-12 school district includes defining why transformation needs to take place, setting high-level realistic expectations and more, says Lenny Schad, District Administration’s chief information and innovation officer and technology editor-at-large.
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