A deal to avoid a Detroit teachers safety strike would offer COVID-19 testing for students and staff, and provide teachers working in school buildings with up to $3,000 in hazard pay.
More than 850,000 students were displaced during a 28-year period from those schools closing, according to research from the Network for Public Education.
An AI camera live streaming high schools sports? Even replacing an entire camera crew to broadcast a junior varsity soccer game? That's no longer a player's or a parent's (or an athletic director's) wildest fantasy.
The Detroit school board is asking state education officials to support letting only institutions with elected boards to authorize charter schools in Michigan. Their resolution noted that the Detroit Public Schools Community District is among the state's 10 active charter school authorizers and the only one governed by an elected board. The Detroit school board […]
More than one-third of U.S. school districts have elevated levels of lead in school water, according to a July report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Administrators must now work quickly to determine the best and most cost-effective solutions for providing safe drinking water amid a lack of national standards and federal funding. "It's total […]
Not long ago, 3D printers were the hot new edtech tool. Costing thousands of dollars, they were prized possessions that only teachers in specialties such as art and engineering knew how to use. Today, they have become necessary devices in ever-evolving, increasingly sophisticated classrooms in all subjects. And out in the workplace, students who have […]
When the New York City Department of Education announced in September that all public school students will now receive free lunch, it joined a growing number of cities around the country trying to ease food insecurity and end the phenomenon of "lunch shaming." Previously about three-quarters of the city's 1.1 million public school students qualified […]
As Donald Trump settles into office, a pachyderm-size question now looms for educators: What will U.S. education policy look like under his Republican-led administration? On the campaign trail, Trump discussed eliminating the Common Core, scaling back the influence of the U.S. Department of Education, and supporting school choice with vouchers and an increase in charter […]
When public school students in Detroit return to classrooms this fall, they'll be attending a new district, created by the state's legislature this past summer. In early June, lawmakers approved a $617 million bailout for Detroit Public Schools to restructure nearly $4 billion in crippling debt. The plan will divide the schools into an "old" […]
