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A Florida City Forever Changed

The scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the surrounding area after the shootings shifted from chaos and panic to grief, anger, and calls for swift and aggressive action to prevent other school attacks.




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Florida Governor Signs Divisive Bill Allowing for Armed Teachers

Florida's governor signed a bill that will allow schools to arm classroom teachers, part of a longer list of school safety changes made after a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last year.




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Florida Coach, Wife Electrocuted While Installing Scoreboard

Officials say a high school baseball coach and his wife were electrocuted while installing a new scoreboard at a Florida baseball field to replace one that had been destroyed by Hurricane Michael.




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Florida Passes Anti-Semitism Bill for Public Schools

A bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in Florida's public schools and universities is going to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Florida

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




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An Unexpected 'Education Governor' and What's Next for Florida

Ron DeSantis had a thin record on K-12 issues as a Florida congressman, but as a first-term Republican governor he’s pushed an aggressive agenda on issues such as vouchers, teacher salaries and bonus pay, and even the common core.




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Florida Teachers Seeking Pay Boost Have a Big Opportunity

Florida's teachers are marching on Tallahassee today. Hard-working teachers deserve a big raise and talented teachers are profoundly underpaid. But teachers ought not overplay their hand, or they're likely to face a backlash of their own.




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LGBTQ Issues Roil Florida School-Choice Debate

As lawmakers weigh expansion of the state’s voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, some renew a push for anti-discrimination protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Florida

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




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Florida School Reopening Date Arrives as Legal Skirmishing Continues

A state appellate court indicated it was likely to side with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration's emergency order requiring schools to open for brick-and-mortar instruction.




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Virus worries latest hurdle in Florida school shooting case




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Florida mayors plead with governor to take action on virus




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Florida Governor Says Closures Don't Work, Schools Will Stay Open

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Monday that schools will be required to remain open despite the rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, arguing lockdowns and closures have not worked.




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Idaho Seeks to Block Electronic-Signature Gathering for Education Ballot Measure

Idaho officials asked a U.S. Supreme Court justice to block an injunction that allows a group backing an education ballot initiative to collect electronic signatures because of COVID-19.




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High Court Blocks Electronic-Signature Gathering for Idaho Education Initiative

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an injunction that had allowed a group backing an Idaho education spending measure to collect electronic signatures because of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Idaho's 2nd-largest school district goes online-only, again




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Innovative Assessments: Widening the Horizon

States are developing new forms of assessment, including assessments of learning and assessments for learning.




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A District-Level Effort to Replace the Common Core State Standards

The Manchester district in the Granite State has worked to develop its own content standards. How do they differ from the common core?




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Democrats Are Fighting Over Charter Schools. Will Key Early Primary States Care?

Charter schools are playing a notable role in remarks about education from candidates like Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Yet it's not clear what if any role they'll have in important states like Iowa and New Hampshire.




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Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Puerto Rico Apply for ESSA Innovative Testing Pilot

The pilot, which was initially one of the most buzzed about pieces of ESSA, allows states to try out new forms of testing in a handful of districts, with the goal of eventually taking them statewide.




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Rapid Deployment of Remote Learning: Lessons From 4 Districts

Chief technology officers are facing an unprecedented test of digital preparedness due to the coronavirus pandemic, struggling with shortfalls of available learning devices and huge Wi-Fi access challenges.




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To Ease Shortage, Indiana District Recruits Teachers to Drive Buses

A suburban Indianapolis district is signing up teachers to drive school buses before and after their usual time in the classroom.




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Indiana Teachers Shot With Plastic Pellets in Active-Shooter Drill, Raising Concerns

The Indiana state teachers' union is pushing to protect student and staff safety during active-shooter trainings.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A collection of articles from this week that you may have missed.




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Missouri

State of the States: Education highlights from latest governor's address before the legislature.




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Missouri

Missouri’s educational technology efforts, once fueled by $15 million to $20 million a year in state funding, have been running on fumes from the state for the past three years, according to Deborah K. Sutton, the instructional technology director for the Missouri education department.




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After Protracted Political Spat, Missouri Rehires Fired State Schools Chief

Former Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appointed enough board members to have Commissioner Margie Vandeven fired last year, but now that he's gone, the state board decided to hire her back.




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Revamped School Board Starts Search for New Schools Chief for Missouri

The search for Missouri's next top education official has begun nearly 10 months after the last one was fired. The state board of education began accepting applications last week.




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Ferguson-Florissant Schools Open After Two-Week Delay

The school district, which serves about 11,200 students, postponed opening because of the protests following the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black teenager who was shot by a white police officer.




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Missouri

Gov. Blunt is proposing that state aid to K-12 schools be increased by $121 million next fiscal year and calling for quadrupling college-scholarship aid for needy students.




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High Court Declines Missouri District's Appeal Over At-Large Board Voting

The justices declined to hear the appeal of the Ferguson-Florissant district over its at-large board elections, which lower courts invalidated as violating the Voting Rights Act.




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Missouri's State Board Hasn't Met Since January. With Governor Gone, What Now?

Gov. Erik Greitens has resigned and the board doesn't have enough governor-appointed members to form a quorum. Important tasks have been piling up.




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Missouri Tackles Challenge of Dyslexia Screening, Services

New state mandates start next school year aimed at identifying and supporting students with dyslexia. The 2016 law also led to development of training for teachers.




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Missouri State School Board Rehires Fired Commissioner

Former Missouri education Commissioner Margie Vandeven, who was fired by by the state's board of education, has been rehired.




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What Principals Learn From Roughing It in the Woods

In three days of rock climbing, orienteering, and other challenging outdoor experiences, principals get to examine their own—and others’—strengths and weaknesses as leaders.




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Call for Racial Equity Training Leads to Threats to Superintendent, Resistance from Community

Controversy over an intiative aimed a reducing inequities in Lee's Summit, Mo., schools led the police department to provide security protection for the district's first African-American superintendent. Now the school board has reversed course.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Missouri

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




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Missouri

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




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6 Lessons Learned About Better Teaching During the Pandemic

Educators who work in personalized learning schools are adjusting instruction for remote, hybrid, and in-person learning.




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Enrollment in Missouri public schools declines by 3.2%




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Missouri guidance change seeks to reduce school quarantines




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Missouri teachers union latest to urge coronavirus action




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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.




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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.




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States to Schools: Teach Reading the Right Way

Worried that far too many students have weak reading skills, states are passing new laws that require aspiring teachers—and, increasingly, teachers who are already in the classroom—to master reading instruction that’s solidly grounded in research.




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Arkansas Provides K-12 Districts With Volunteer IT Team to Fight Cyber Attacks

The Arkansas Department of Education will now provide on-site help for schools and districts in the state that are experiencing cybersecurity incidents.




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Pandemic forcing some Arkansas school districts to adjust




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Tension Rises in States Over Who Decides When to Reopen Schools

School administrators in some states are caught up in tensions about who gets the final say about when they can reopen their buildings and what precautions they should take to protect their communities.




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Kansas counties, biggest school district set new COVID rules