al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Montana

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

With no school, calls drop but child abuse hasn't amid virus




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Montana

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




al

Trust Local School Leaders, a State Chief Says as Optional Reopening Date Nears

Montana Superintendent Elsie Arntzen offers practical advice to schools that could open as early as May 7, even as she says "how they open schools and how learning takes place is up to them."




al

What if Hawaii's False Alarm Had Happened on a School Day?

Hawaii's schools are prepared to respond to ballistic missile threats, education officials wrote in a letter to parents after Saturday's false alarm.




al

When Will The Birds Fly Free?: Education as Colonialism

The play made me ask the terrifying question that every educator asks themselves at some point: Am I actually helping my students?




al

Hawaii Settles Lawsuit on Illegal Age Limit for Special Education

About $8 million will be eligible for compensatory education to students who were affected by an illegal state-imposed age cap on special education enrollment.




al

Student Perspective: The True Meaning of Aloha

"Aloha" isn't just a greeting; in a way it is their way of life, and when you distort that sacred word, you distort their way of life.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Hawaii

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

The Art of Making Science Accessible and Relevant to All Students

Building science lessons around phenomena that students know equally and can see in their own lives is making the subject more relevant and interesting.




al

Teachers, If You're Not OK Right Now, You're Not Alone

In desperately trying to be a superhero for my students, I underestimated the gravity of the coronavirus crisis, writes Hawaii teacher Lory Walker Peroff.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Hawaii

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Hawaii unions push back at governor's salary cut proposal




al

'Déjà Vu All Over Again' in New Jersey

New Jersey's Camden takeover in context.




al

Newark Principals Speak Out, Get Suspended by Christie's Superintendent

Now Newark, New Jersey, is exploding, thanks to the attempts at intimidation by Governor Christie's hand-picked superintendent of schools, Cami Anderson.




al

New Jersey Postpones PARCC Exam After Technical Problems

New Jersey is one of many states that have experienced problems with the online administering of standardized testing this year.




al

In Response to Federal Feedback, N.J. Seeks Testing Waiver From ESSA

The state wants to test its middle school students in the mathematics courses in which they're enrolled, rather than with the state tests created for that each student's particular grade.




al

Teacher's Facebook Post on Students' Social Media Secrets Goes Viral

Utah science teacher Skipper Coates asked her students to complete the following sentence: "What my parents don't know about social media is..."




al

Utah Inflated Its High School Graduation Rate, Federal Watchdog Finds

Federal watchdogs find that Utah inflated its high school graduation rate in the last of a series of reports warning states not to make end runs around the rules for calculating graduation rates.




al

Betsy DeVos OKs ESSA Plans for California, Utah

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos green-lighted California and Utah's plans to implement the Every Student Succeed Act. That means just one state is still waiting: Florida.




al

With Waiver Denial, Utah Mulls Second Accountability System

Utah is one of four states where state laws conflict with components of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act meaning districts may have to answer to two separate accountability systems this fall.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Utah

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Utah

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Utah to reconsider bill funding special needs scholarships




al

Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Pennsylvania State Board Chair Resigns

Several women told local newspapers that Pennsylvania state board chair Larry Wittig pursued sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers.




al

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders School Funding Trial

Six school systems, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference want to change the state's school-funding system, which allows for wide spending gaps between low- and high-income districts.




al

Trial Set for 2020 in Long-Running Pennsylvania School Funding Lawsuit

The lawsuit, filed in 2014, alleges that the state was severely underfunding schools, forcing school districts to lean heavily on property taxes, which especially disadvantages students in property-poor areas.




al

A Big Charter School Struggle Has Been Galvanized by a Democratic Governor

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has become increasingly critical of charter schools this year, and his new proposals for charters would change how they operate and how they are funded.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Pennsylvania

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Pennsylvania

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Teach New Content or Review Familiar Material? A Tough Call During Coronavirus Closures

Schools must make the critical decision whether to reinforce the learning that students have already done this year or introduce new content.




al

Education Advocates Already Filing to Run in 2018 State Elections

Already, some educators and prominent education advocates have entered their names into the running for of the many 2018 state races around the country where education policy is likely to be a hot topic.




al

Armed Staff Keep Rural Schools Safe When Police Are Far Away, Panel Hears

Arming some school staff provides a needed safety option for rural districts far from law enforcement, educators told the Federal School Safety Commission during an Arkansas site visit Wednesday.




al

Educators, Advocates Chase Political Office in Several States

In Arkansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin, educators and advocates will be on this year's ballot for governor, a position that will inevitably have an outsized role in shaping education policy.




al

Dealing With Dyslexia: 'It's Almost Like It's a Naughty Word' (Video)

When Scott Gann learned his son Dustin had dyslexia, he was shocked at the school's reaction. No one there wanted to use the word.




al

Four Tips for District Leaders Dealing With Social Media Impersonators

Several incidents have popped up across the country in recent years: fake district accounts in Arkansas, California, Minnesota, and Ohio, and fake superintendent accounts in Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, among others.




al

Small Arkansas School District Installs Safe Rooms in All Classrooms

A school district in a small Arkansas city has installed steel safe rooms in every classroom.




al

Meet the Principal Who's Never In Her Office (Video)

Bethany Hill, the principal at Central Elementary School in Cabot, Ark., shuns a formal office in favor of roving around classrooms, hallways, the playground, and the cafeteria, where she can be as close as possible to teachers and students all day.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Arkansas

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Arkansas

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

Arkansas official: No high school graduations until July 1




al

The Year in Personalized Learning: 2017 in Review

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, states like Vermont and Rhode Island, and companies such as AltSchool all generated headlines about personalized learning in 2017.




al

Rhode Island Announces Statewide K-12 Personalized Learning Push

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and other funders are supporting Rhode Island's efforts to define and research personalized learning in traditional public schools.




al

R.I. Proposal Would Provide More School Choice, With Some Restrictions

Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo proposes to allow traditional public schools to be free of certain regulations, including opening up enrollment outside their neighborhoods.




al

Rhode Island Jumps on 'Computer Science for All' Bandwagon

Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced a new effort to bring computer science classes to every public school in the state by the end of 2017.




al

New Rhode Island Law Mandates Daily School Recess, Calls It a Student's Right

The law passed after parent groups lobbied for it and will require schools to provide 20 consecutive minutes of recess daily for students in kindergarten through 6th grade.




al

Educational Opportunities and Performance in Rhode Island

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




al

In Historic Win, Nationally Recognized Teacher Jahana Hayes Elected to U.S. House

The 2016 National Teacher of the Year will represent Connecticut’s 5th district, becoming the first African-American woman from the state to serve in Congress.




al

Federal Judge Dismisses Most Claims in Connecticut School Choice Lawsuit

A federal judge dismissed most claims in a lawsuit challenging Connecticut's restrictions on magnet schools, charter schools, and school choice programs, saying there is no fundamental right to equal education opportunity under the U.S. Constitution.