Rancho Santa Fe's school board has hired Donna Tripi as the California district's new superintendent. She will replace former Superintendent David Jaffe and interim superintendent Kim Pinkerton. Since 1999, Tripi has served as the principal of La Jolla Elementary School.
Ridge Road Elementary School principal Patrick A. Stirk has been named as the next superintendent of North Haven Public Schools. He replaces Robert Cronin, who is retiring in March.
The Wall School District is making history as the first district in South Dakota to bring in locally raised beef from area ranchers into their school lunch program. If the pilot program continues to go well, the district will bring the program back next fall.
State Schools Superintendent Steve Paine supports a one-time pay incentive for educators who aren't certified to teach math, but are teaching it anyway, to increase their math education skills, and for elementary school teachers to also improve their math pedagogy. Last school year, only about 37 percent of tested public school students scored as at least “proficient” in math, and the proficiency percentage for high school juniors was only 29 percent.
Roanoke-Benson's school board has hired Tom Welsh as its new superintendent and principal at Sowers Elementary. He will replace Superintendent Rohn Peterson, who is retiring from the Illinois school district.
The South Carolina State Board of Education has approved the Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2 editions of Discovery Education's Math Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its state adoption process.
The Charter School for Applied Technologies in New York will install Boxlight Corporation's ProColor 752 interactive flat panel displays in every classroom across three buildings for its 2,365 students.
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.
Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to provide more than 2,500 school, academic and public libraries throughout Ohio with free access to Gale digital resources through LCO and its partners, OhioLINK, OPLIN and InfOhio.
Fifth-graders from three rural Edinburg CISD elementary schools now have laptops and secure access to hot spots at home thanks to a $150,000 Technology Lending grant from the Texas Education Agency. It is part of an effort to provide internet access in areas where coverage is not widely accessible and laptops might not fit into the family budget.
