Archive for November 2014
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November 26, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving to our families, friends and constituents
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November 26, 2014
Louisiana to begin overhaul of early education
(La.) Proposed changes to Louisiana’s licensing rules for childcare and centers that administrate Head Start programs aim to ensure that more children will enter kindergarten healthy and prepared to learn.
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November 25, 2014
Basket of measures defines new student performance index
(Calif.) For more than two years, a state commission has struggled to find valid and reliable student performance indicators that could reduce the influence of the almighty test score. Meanwhile, a group of bellwether districts operating independently under a federal waiver are less than a year away from being formally judged under just that sort of system.
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November 24, 2014
Time-out: schools reconsider recess as a tool for discipline
(Calif.) It’s been a time-tested disciplinary tactic for teachers for decades but as concerns over taking recess away from misbehaving students continue to mount, more and more school districts across the nation are seeking to modify the practice or restrict it altogether.
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November 20, 2014
City aims to provide students with wireless Internet
(Iowa) In a move aimed at providing home Internet services to its economically disadvantaged students, the city of Council Bluffs has taken the first step toward implementing free citywide Wi-Fi.
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November 20, 2014
Stock market surge gives big boost to school revenues
(Calif.) The state’s minimum funding guarantee to schools would grow from $63.2 billion in 2014-15 to $74.5 billion by 2019-20 under a revenue forecast released Wednesday by the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
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November 19, 2014
Teachable moments become part of the classroom toolkit
(Ky.) Supported by $1.4 million from a federal early learning grant, Kentucky officials have expanded by 24 a network of learning academies proving successful at engaging parents and readying preschoolers for kindergarten.
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November 19, 2014
Revenue uptick sets stage for Brown vs. Dems II
(Calif.) Notice from the Department of Finance that revenues flowing into state coffers are running slightly more than $1 billion ahead of forecasts made in June should come as welcome news to school administrators still digging out of the financial hole created by the five-year economic downturn.
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November 18, 2014
Grad rate of special ed students continues climb
(Calif.) Performance of the state’s 700,000 special education students continues to improve, registering a high school graduation rate of nearly 62 percent continuing a five-year trend.
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November 18, 2014
Deconstructing classroom seating
(Mich.) Students file into a classroom and begin sinking into bean bag chairs, bouncing lightly on yoga balls or standing at tall tables. Relaxed environments like this – known as active classrooms - are quickly springing up across the country, replacing the standard, formalized setting.
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