Archive for April 2015
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April 30, 2015
High schools to provide more online course options
(Ala.) Every high school in Alabama may be required to offer virtual education options for students beginning in 2016-17 under a bill pending before Gov. Robert Bentley.
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April 30, 2015
$50m in anti-truancy funding likely
(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so-called “prison pipeline” would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner-release savings.
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April 29, 2015
Delay coming to science frameworks
Story updated May 5, 2015, at 12 p.m.
(Calif.) SB 652, scheduled to be considered today by a key legislative panel, changes the date by which the California State Board of Education must adopt a new framework based on the Next Generation Science Standards – from Jan. 31, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2017.
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April 29, 2015
Training principals how to evaluate teachers
(Tenn.) A report out this month marking the results of the first three years of a new program that trains principals to better evaluate teachers using classroom observation found 100,000 additional students were on grade level in math in 2014 as compared to 2010; and 57,000 more were on grade level in science.
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April 28, 2015
Attendance rates set to become federal benchmark
(Calif.) Already a key reporting requirement of the state’s new accountability system, attendance rates would now also become one of three measures used by federal officials to gauge school performance in California.
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April 28, 2015
Full-day kindergarten coming to Oregon
(Ore.) Advocates nationally for full-day kindergarten are cheering a new, $7.3 billion state budget in Oregon that includes money for the expanded early learning program.
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April 27, 2015
Tending to parent needs when it comes to sex ed
(N.C.) Deciding how much information is needed to properly prepare pre-teens for parenthood has been an age-old challenge – it’s a dilemma school officials have been challenged with for decades.
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April 27, 2015
Poll hints of political train wreck over Common Core
(Calif.) If it was big news last week that most parents know nothing about new K-12 testing aligned to the Common Core, consider the headlines later this summer when the results come back and only a fraction of the students pass.
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April 23, 2015
Ohio offers free school safety plan training course
(Ohio) A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded training course is helping Ohio schools update safety plans to meet newer state requirements aimed at protecting property and saving lives in the event of a natural disaster or a man-made one.
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April 23, 2015
Cost-saving options offered for GED exam
(Calif.) Two years after a sharp increase in fees jeopardized student access to the state’s high school equivalency exam, California officials announced this month an agreement with CTB/McGraw-Hill to offer the firm’s general education test.
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