Tag: public schools

November 29, 2023

Do public schools have the means to adopt the latest edtech for modern teaching? After all, the days of chalkboards and lightbulb-powered screen projectors are long gone. And with the popularity of smartphones and tablets, children are learning to interact […]

November 14, 2023

Around this time last year, 70% of schools said they offered summer school in summer 2022, according to results from an earlier version of the same survey. However, NCES cautioned against comparing the percentage of schools offering summer programs between […]

October 16, 2023

When Erin Ford joined Virginia’s Chesterfield County Public Schools as director of technology services, she became concerned about the way the district monitored its technology assets. “We were tracking Chromebooks in a vendor-supported asset management system,” she says. “We also […]

March 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. My hands, raw from […]

December 16, 2022

Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. A Canada-based company the district hired […]

October 5, 2022

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced 19 Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) awards totaling $110 million and four new grant awards for the 2022 Equity Assistance Center (EAC) program totaling more than $6.5 million. The EAC awards fund […]

September 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 million students received special education services as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s 14% of K–12 students in public schools in the United States […]

August 29, 2022

Conservative foundation Judicial Watch is suing Minneapolis Public Schools on behalf of a community taxpayer over part of the district’s 2021-2023 agreement with its teacher union that is meant to protect minority teachers from seniority firing practices. The contract gives […]

August 4, 2022

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement the data points to ”significant progress” made by students during the 2021-22 school year. More than 98% of public schools used academic supports to spur pandemic-related learning recovery during the 2021-22 […]

June 30, 2022

Secluding students will no longer be allowed in Maryland’s public schools under a law taking effect on Friday. Gov. Larry Hogan allowed the bill to become law without his signature in April, just months after an investigation by the U.S. […]

May 26, 2022

Within the past two months, two of the nation’s five largest school districts have experienced a significant data breach via a vendor, said Doug Levin, national director of K12 Security Information Exchange, or K12 SIX, a nonprofit organization that aims […]

April 7, 2022

When schools transitioned to remote learning two years ago, tech took on a new role in educational instruction. After adjusting to using computers in their lessons daily during the pandemic, some educators have begun to view teaching-related tech in a […]

March 10, 2022

Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University are launching a new fellowship program to grow the number of school principals of color in partnership with New Leaders, a nonprofit focused on training equity-focused K-12 administrators. The online principal certification and master’s […]

March 3, 2022

Today, YouScience announced its career guidance tool, YouScience Discovery, is now available for students in 48 KIPP Public Schools, a network of national public charter schools. With the recent expansion, YouScience Discovery now reaches over 3,000 high school and 200 […]

May 3, 2021

NCAN considers a public college to be affordable if its total in-state cost of attendance plus $300 in emergency expenses is lower than the combination of the institution’s average grant awards, the average federal loan disbursement and Federal Work Study […]

March 10, 2021

Students in the nation’s second-largest school district could return to class next month under a tentative deal announced Tuesday with the powerful teachers union. The Los Angeles Unified School District and the union said the tentative agreement provides a number […]

May 27, 2020

Such programs can increase diversity in colleges by creating college pathways for underrepresented minorities. In Boston, College Bound is a precollege enrichment program designed to increase college diversity. A group of 50 to 60 students in 7th through 12th grade […]

April 28, 2020

The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to devastate the state budgets that fund public schools, but a new report from the Albert Shanker Institute outlines a viable path to minimizing the damage. The report, released April 24, calls […]

February 26, 2020

In 2016, a State of Schools report found the United States would have to spend an additional $46 billion per year on school construction and maintenance to close the spending gap on school facilities. Two years prior, in 2014, the […]

January 28, 2020

In an environment where public schools face increasing competition from charters, private school voucher programs, and other choice options, marketing has grown as an important means to keep students (and per-pupil funding) within districts. But, as this incident highlights, there […]