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Weekly NewsBriefs 3/20/23 - 3/26/23

Bill for $6,500 vouchers creeps toward Georgia House passage – By Jeff Amy, AP News Georgia conservatives are getting closer to a long-held goal of broadening state funding for private...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 3/13/23 - 3/19/23

Superintendents skew younger, but diversity remains elusive – By Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive Superintendents over the past 10 years are, on average, younger and making more money than in t...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 3/6/23 - 3/12/23

Mountain West states look for solutions to widespread teacher shortages – By Will Walkey, Wyoming Public Radio Officials across the Mountain West are looking for ways to recruit and re...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 2/26/23 - 3/5/23

State schools leader says WA isn’t doing enough to fund education – By Katherine Long, the Seattle Times State schools Superintendent Chris Reykdal is sounding the alarm that a declini...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 2/20/23 - 2/26/23

Local education officials hope state legislation will help ailing teacher pool – By Christopher Harris, Commonwealth Journal (Kentucky) It used to be that schoolchildren would bring an...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 2/13/23 - 2/19/23

Lawmakers hear pleas to end high school graduation exam requirement – By Sophie Nieto-Munoz, The New Jersey Monitor After three years of challenges caused or aggravated by the pandemic...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 2/6/23 - 2/12/23

Tennessee House speaker mulls rejecting US education money – By Kinberlee Krusei and Jonathan Mattise One of Tennessee’s most influential Republican lawmakers says the state should st...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 1/30/223 - 2/5/23

NJ schools can now apply for $350 million in state grants for building and repairs – By Mary Anne Koruth, NorthJersey.com New Jersey is accepting applications for the $350 million in g...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 1/23/23 - 1/30/23

Secretary Cardona Announces the U.S. Department of Education’s “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” Initiative – By press Office, US Department of Education In a major address, U.S. Secreta...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 1/16/23 - 1/22/23

Clean air in schools could become New Mexico law – By Austin Fisher, SourceNM Even though New Mexico requires public schools to upgrade their heating and air conditioning systems to cl...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 1/9/23 - 1/15/23

1 in 4 schools suffered cyberattacks last year as teachers bemoan lack of training – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Cybersecurity training for teachers appears to be laggin...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 1/2/23 - 1/8/23

Kansas public universities finalizing plan in response to shortage of K-12 teachers – By Tim Carpenter, The Wichita Eagle Education deans at public universities in Kansas working on so...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 12/26/22 - 1/1/23

USPTO launches free K-12 invention education platform – By Laura Ascione, eSchool News The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the launch of the free inve...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 12/19/22 - 12/25/22

Rural teacher incentive program receives 764 applications – By Darren Svan, ID ED News In its first year, Idaho’s new rural teacher incentive program has several hundred more applicant...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 12/12/22 - 12/18/22

State expects to disperse $50 million Empowering Parents grants by mid-January – By Darren Svan, ID ED News Within the next 30 days, the State Board of Education expects to completely ...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 12/5/22 - 12/11/22

Texas moves toward revoking largest teacher prep program’s accreditation – By Talia Richman, Dallas Morning News Texas’ largest teacher preparation program failed to show enough improv...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 11/28/22 - 12/4/22

Citing staff shortage, Alabama starts paying student teachers to lead classrooms – By Tricia Powell Crain, AL.com Alabama school districts are getting creative in how they recruit and re...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 11/21/22 - 11/27/22

Superintendents say pandemic's educational impact goes deeper than realized – By Katie Lannan, GBH News State and local education officials said Tuesday that schools face a twin c...

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 11/7/22 - 11/13/22

Alternative piplines to teachers | MEC, Accelerate Mississippi push for college degrees | Alabama county votes to make superintendent an elected role | Three prominent groups back plan for tougher grading of Louisiana schools

Doug Cauthen

Weekly NewsBriefs 10/24/22 - 10/30/22

  Illinois uses federal COVID money to expand high-impact tutoring. Will it help students catch up? – By Samantha Smylie, Chalkbeat Jack Goodwin was already struggling with math in mid...

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