July 18, 2018
(Fla.) Local educational agencies are scrambling to meet deadlines before the fall term begins to enhance school security and hire armed guards as required under legislation passed earlier this year.
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July 17, 2018
(Calif.) It appears a standoff of nearly a decade between charters and traditional public schools over what extent charters are subject to California’s open meeting and disclosure laws may finally be coming to an end.
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July 11, 2018
(Calif.) A bill limiting the use of restraint and seclusion techniques and another that would increase the state’s per-pupil spending targets passed a key legislative committee as the end of the current session quickly nears.
July 10, 2018
(Calif.) Unless something unusual happens in the coming days either in Sacramento or Washington D.C., students returning to class in the fall will do so under the direction of a federally approved ESSA plan for California.
July 09, 2018
(District of Columbia) The National Transportation Safety Board’s awaited review of two crashes involving school buses in Maryland and Tennessee in 2016 calls for improved district oversight of drivers.
January 30, 2017
(Calif.) The recent alarm over the potential spread of fake news has prompted two California lawmakers to call for media literacy education in schools, as evidence shows that many children and some adults are largely unable to distinguish between fact and fiction online.
December 08, 2016
(Calif.) With the state’s fiscal outlook as good as it has been perhaps in a decade, and now with Democrats holding a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, some within the education community might have thought a conversation over the adequacy of school funding would finally happen.
January 04, 2017
(Calif.) The California State Board of Education struggled at their November meeting to find a just route in arbitrating a small school district’s request to waive–for a fourth time–professional certification requirements of an educational interpreter.
November 21, 2016
(N.M.) As schools across the country report increases in bullying and harassment based on immigration status, Santa Fe Public Schools has announced a Student Support Helpline where families can access resources.
