Mayor London Breed is launching an initiative to provide paid internships and job-training programs for all San Francisco high school students by summer. So far, businesses and city agencies have already pledged to make more than 100 new internships available.
Arm teachers, spend more on school security and mental health, and train police to be more aggressive when responding to school shootings—those are some of the recommendations in a report into the deadliest U.S. high school shooting released.
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.
When I started teaching nearly 30 years ago, my principal, Elizabeth Terronez, challenged both of us. My job was to create an environment where creativity and innovation could thrive, while hers was to find a way to say "yes." My mission made perfect sense, but hers was beyond me. After becoming a school leader myself, […]
What if education could be better—for students and for educators? Katie Martin says it can be, when educators replace traditional teaching models with a collaborative, creative environment that empowers learners to explore and take risks in the pursuit of growth. Martin leads Partnerships-West at AltSchool, a growing community of districts and schools that is building […]
LA Makerspace and Imagination.org have merged with Two Bit Circus Foundation to unify their STEAM education efforts. Two Bit Circus Foundation currently operates in nearly half the schools of LAUSD while LA Makerspace has makerspace STEAM labs in 167 partner library branches.
School districts are struggling to find school bus drivers, a challenge that has worsened with low unemployment and a strong economy. The problem has become so severe that some districts are offering sign-up bonuses for new drivers, while others rely on mechanics, custodians and other school employees to fill the gap.
Gov. Larry Hogan is expanding a program that offers high school students career training in tech, along with the opportunity to earn a degree. New legislation would remove the caps on the number of schools allowed to offer the Pathways in Technology Early College High school program, also known as PTECH, and remove the timeline that said no new schools could be added until 2022.
Superintendent Michael Sander has closed his Ohio district's achievement gap by making kindergarten full-time, increasing reading scores, revamping summer school for at-risk students, and increasing parent interaction.
Students and teachers in 2019 will gain more control—over everything from the topics they study to the technology they use to the types of tests they take.
