News Clips
Weekly NewsBriefs 9/12/22 - 9/18/22
Shorter work weeks become the incentive as districts struggle to hire new teachers – By Micah Ward, District Administration Since the onset of COVID, district leaders have been force...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 9/5/22 - 9/11/22
Facing Pandemic Learning Crisis, District Spend Relief Funds at a a Snail’s Pace – By Linda Jacobson, The 74 Schools that closed their doors the longest due to COVID have spent just ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/29/22 - 9/4/22
Dual-immersion programs show promise in fighting enrollment declines – By Zaidee Stavely, EdSource When 6-year-old Mia Truong started reading and writing in Vietnamese in addition to...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/22/22 - 8/28/22
Minnesota Department of Education identifies hundreds of schools in need of additional support – By Eder Campuzano and MaryJo Webster, the Star Tribune The Minnesota Department of Educ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/15/22 - 8/21/22
Learning spaces, wellness rooms, nature trails. This is the K-12 school of the future – By Jennifer Kingston, Axios The hallway-and-classroom model of school architecture is out. Inste...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/8/22 - -8/14/22
Strategies Revealed for Effective Delivery of K-12 Online Education – By Laura Oleniacz, NC State University News North Carolina State University researchers released findings from an ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/1/22 - 8/7/22
Tutoring is tops for academic recovery. Can schools make it work? – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Finding enough tutors is the biggest challenge schools face in helping s...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/25/22 - 7/31/22
Most mask mandates ended last school year. Now they are slowly returning – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Much of the general public has ditched masks but students in some ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/18/22 - 7/24/22
While superintendents are lukewarm, tougher rules may be coming in how high schools are graded – By Will Sentell, The Baton Rogue Advocate State education leaders are mapping plans t...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/11/22 - 7/17/22
California COVID guidance for 2022-23 stresses keeping schools open – From K-12 Dive Staff Reports As district leaders prepare for a fourth pandemic school year, the California Departm...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/4/22 - 7/10/22
Kansas may ditch class hours for real-world training as graduation requirements – By Suzanne Perez, The Wichita Eagle For more than a century, Kansas students have earned credits — and...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/27/22 - 7/3/22
NYC rolling out 2 virtual learning programs with aim to turn them into fully remote schools by 2023 – By Cayla Bamberger, NY Post Remote learning could be here to stay. New York Ci...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/20/22 - 6/26/22
Money for Children’s Education, Not Schools – By Jess Yass, Wall Street Journal As schools break for summer, it’s a good time to review the return America is getting on its investment ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/13/22 - 6/19/22
Bill would give $25,000 to aspiring school counselors, social workers – By Carolyn Jones, EdSource Bailey Adling would stay up some days until 3 a.m. studying for his master’s degree i...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/6/22 - 6/12/22
NYC Education Dept. bans widely-used online gradebook after security breach – By Michael Elsen-Rooney, N.Y. Daily News The New York City Education Department is barring city public sch...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/30/22 - 6/5/22
Colorado Gov. Polis signs school finance act, other funding measures – By Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Per-pupil spending will increase 6% from this year, special education funding will ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/23/22 - 5/29/22
Chicago Public Schools data breach affects nearly 500K students – By Anna Merod, K-12 Dive Nonprofit ed tech provider Battelle for Kids informed Chicago Public Schools on May 11 it was...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/16/22 - 5/22/22
Other forces are working against K-12 leaders who are scrambling to hire – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Layoffs, permanent school closures and steep enrollment declines a...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/9/22 - 5/15/22
Education Department Announces 161 Students to be Honored as 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars – From US Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/2/22 - 5/8/22
Early childhood education gets $150 million investment from state – By Catherine Shen, Connecticut Public Radio A $150 million injection into the state’s early childhood system would p...
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