News Clips
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...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 10/17/22 - 10/23/22
The $1.1 Billion Math Solution? Gates Foundation Makes Math Its Top K-12 Priority – By Marianna McMurdock, The 74 As the nation witnesses unprecedented declines in academic achieveme...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 10/10/22 - 10/16/22
Recent cyberattacks highlight the vulnerability of California schools – By Joe Hong, Cal Matters If Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school district, can be hit with a ransom...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 10/3/22 - 10/9/22
Lawmakers, school officials meet over facial recognition technology in schools – By Kathleen Shannon, Montana Public Radio State lawmakers studying facial recognition technology expres...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 9/26/22 - 10/2/22
Gov. Phil Murphy vetoes bill eliminating ‘unnecessary’ teaching certification – By Tennyson Donyea, WHYY New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have elimina...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 9/19/22 - 9/25/22
Kansas pitches plan offering 9 hours of college courses to ‘under-resourced’ high school students – By Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector Kansas Board of Education member Betty Arnold b...
The LC Staff
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...
The LC Staff
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 ...
The LC Staff
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...
The LC Staff
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...
The LC Staff
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...
The LC Staff
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