Archive for March 2019 - Page 2
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March 18, 2019
Troubling report on LEA fiscal solvency
(Calif.) The number of school districts in California reporting potentially severe fiscal challenges remains uncomfortably high, with 47 reporting a negative or qualified budget certification.
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March 14, 2019
Teachers need training in new math texts, study finds
(Mass.) The adoption of the Common Core State Standards led schools in many states to switch curricula and adopt new textbooks, but a team of researchers found that teachers receive little training in the use of their texts, which may be hindering student gains.
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March 14, 2019
Waiting to make up lost revenue in April
(Calif.) February tax collections came in modestly ahead of projections made just weeks before by Gov. Gavin Newsom in his proposed budget, but overall revenues remain close to $2.2 billion below estimates.
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March 13, 2019
Survey: overall political climate shines light on rifts in schools
(Calif.) High school students and administrators throughout the country are struggling to deal with a broad set of social issues at the forefront of the Trump presidency—including hostility towards racial groups or immigrants, opioid abuse and gun violence.
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March 13, 2019
Schools failing to support students with ADHD
(District of Columbia) A significant number of students with ADHD are not receiving needed classroom services, and many of them also come from low-income families or are English learners, according to a new study.
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March 12, 2019
Workforce dilemma poses risk to Mammoth building project
(Calif.) Set to begin spending some of the $63.1 million in general obligation bonds to expand and improve aging classrooms, the Mammoth Unified School District has proposed a complex lease arrangement with the eventual builder.
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March 12, 2019
More students eating school breakfast, see better outcomes
(W.Va.) For the fifth straight year, West Virginia was named the top performing state in the nation for school breakfast participation by the Food Research and Action Center. And student performance is improving as a result.
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March 11, 2019
Ed leaders seek funding to help teachers with housing
(Calif.) There is a lot of overlap in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s school spending priorities and those of state education officials, but one thing state schools chief Tony Thurmond would like to see emphasized is a commitment to fund teacher housing.
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March 11, 2019
Some states still lag pre-recession funding levels
(District of Columbia) School funding in more than half of all states is only now creeping past pre-recession levels with support for education in 12 states still lagging far behind prior high marks.
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March 07, 2019
National teachers’ union looks to capitalize on labor unrest
(District of Columbia) Driven by the success of teacher strikes in deeply conservative states like West Virginia and Oklahoma to the recent unrest in liberal California, the American Federation of Teachers began this week a lobbying and public relations campaign aimed at getting state lawmakers and Congress to spend more on public schools.
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