Utah schools would no longer get a letter grade each year for performance—a system that has been largely criticized for relying too much on test scores and accounting too little for diversity—under a bill that gained committee approval. The measure to do away with the controversial A through F grades.
The Virginia House of Delegates voted last week to require public schools to make Election Day a school holiday. The bill is a safety measure aimed at keeping unknown people out of school buildings while children are present. Limiting public access to school premises while classes are in session only makes sense.
English language learners should have the same opportunities to participate in STEM classes as any other student, English learner and bilingual consultant Lori Menning told attendees of the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando last week. "[Language and STEM] should come simultaneously because we know they learn through those experiences," explained Menning, of Cooperative […]
A House panel next week will take up a proposal that would ask voters to place eight-year term limits on county school board members. If approved by Florida lawmakers during the spring session, the measure would go on the 2020 ballot because it is a proposed constitutional amendment.
In its latest update, Verso has added Exit Tickets, a new feature designed to collect student-to-teacher feedback at the end of a lesson to enable formative assessment. Another update includes an improved teacher dashboard that enables teachers, coaches and mentors to share insights with and feedback for other teachers.
The current fight is over a proposed $20 million cut to public education in the governor's recently proposed supplemental budgets for this year's spending. These bills usually cover appropriations lawmakers didn't anticipate when drafting spending plans last session for the current fiscal year.
For over 20 years, Fairfield Public Schools received most student transportation services from First Student except bus routing, which theConnecticut district performed internally. "After utilizing the same routing approach for years, we soon realized we could improve," says Doreen T. Munsell, executive director of finance and business services at Fairfield Public Schools. District officials asked […]
Portland Police Bureau officials have told leaders at city school districts that if they want to maintain campus officers, they'll have to use school dollars to help pay for them. School leaders in Portland Public Schools and the Parkrose school district are objecting to both the cost and timing of the city's push for districts to take on costs.
Teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and staffing in the nation's second-largest school district. Preliminary figures showed that a "vast supermajority" of some 30,000 educators voted in favor of the tentative deal.
