Gov. Phil Murphy announced that 29 school districts are being awarded grants totaling $2 million that will cover 900 seats. He also announced that a nonprofit is launching a privately funded fellowship program for elementary school math teachers to improve their skills. In addition, the New Jersey Department of Education will be shifting $13.6 million in federal funding to low-income districts for a range of programs including STEM.
Amino Labs has partnered with MindFuel to expand its Canadian and U.S. presence in K12 education. The Amino Labs Educators Starter Kit, which is a synthetic biology starter kit for teachers, will be combined with MindFuel's Wonderville.org service platform to provide curricula-aligned lessons in synthetic biology.
The State Education Department has a perpetual backlog of school building project reviews, with nearly half taking six months or longer before they are approved, an audit found. Many projects typically languish for months, adding inflationary costs and impacting the way districts plan for things such as building renovations, new construction or modernizing structures.
A long journey lies ahead for House Bill 1525, which came before the North Dakota House Education Committee, which would draw money from the Common Schools Trust Fund to pay off all the outstanding debt accrued by school districts around the state. This would, if passed, avoid the need for voters to determine if they will pay for additional school construction through bonding or tax increases.
Some of the newest partner districts protecting students with Gaggle are West Memphis School District in Arkansas, Perris Union High School District in California and School District of Lee County in Florida. Five other districts in Iowa, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington have signed on as well.
Vernier Software & Technology has released the Exploring Motion and Force with Go Direct Sensor Cart downloadable activity module to engage students in hands-on learning as they investigate STEM concepts such as frictional forces, motion and simple machines.
Interim Superintendent Laura Perille is proposing a $1.14 billion budget for the next school year, a modest increase that would allow the Boston school system to overhaul science instruction in the lower grades and provide more funding for low-performing schools.
Here are some of the sights from FETC 2019, where hundreds of educators explored the latest trends in edtech, networked, and connected with solution providers.
What started as an attempt by lawmakers to remove outdated language on the Lord's Prayer from state statutes is morphing into a wider effort to define options for prayer in public schools in the House Education Committee this week.
