May 9, 2016
By: Rob Manning
Source: opb.org This story is part of the NPR reporting project “School Money,” a nationwide collaboration between NPR’s Ed Team and 20 member station reporters exploring how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students. If there’s one lesson Oregonians, and […]
May 9, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: blogs.edweek.org More than 1,000 students with disabilities are attending 25 of New York City’s top high schools—just 3.7 percent of those schools’ total enrollment of more than 28,000, but still a marked increase from just four years ago. At that time, the number of students with individualized education programs at the […]
May 9, 2016
By: Alyson Klein
Source: edweek.org The Every Student Succeeds Act scales back the federal role when it comes to accountability and school improvement, and grants states and districts new flexibility in using federal funds. But, as part of its bipartisan grand bargain, it also bolsters some federal requirements in one key area: transparency. ESSA, which […]
May 5, 2016
By: Grace Tatter
Source: chalkbeat.org U.S. Secretary of Education John King said Monday that Tennessee must look to other indicators to evaluate its academic performance this year after canceling its new standardized assessment last week for most students. King, who was the keynote speaker at the Education Writers Association national conference in Boston, said the state […]
May 4, 2016
By: Emily Deruy
Source: theatlantic.com Some of the wealthiest, most-educated towns in the United States have the biggest academic-achievement gaps between white students and their peers of color. That is one of the depressing facts emerging from a wide-ranging new analysis of more than 200 million test scores of 40 million students from around the […]
May 4, 2016
By: Kathy Kelker
Source: thewesternnews.com The Montana Constitution says it is the goal of the people to establish a system of education that develops the full educational potential of each person. This includes helping students with disabilities to reach their potential. The legislative School Funding Commission is looking at the state funding of special education […]
May 4, 2016
By: Monica Disare
Source: chalkbeat.org Seventh graders at the Gardner Pilot Academy in Boston want to be football players, marine biologists, and engineers when they grow up. That’s what they told U.S Secretary of Education John King when he visited their class on Tuesday. Not one said he or she intends to become a teacher. […]
May 4, 2016
By: Emma Brown and Vickie Elmer
Source: washingtonpost.com Detroit Public Schools reopened Wednesday, welcoming tens of thousands of students back to their classrooms after two days of widespread closures due to teacher sickouts over a pay dispute. At a membership meeting of the Detroit Federation of Teachers late Tuesday, union leaders urged teachers to return to […]
May 4, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com Most people with autism who receive vocational rehabilitation services exit the program with a job, a new report finds, but such employment is typically part-time and low paid. Nationally, about 60 percent of those on the spectrum left the federally-funded vocational rehabilitation program with a position in an integrated workplace […]
May 4, 2016
By: Steve Carmody
Source: npr.org Thousands of children in Flint, Mich., have been exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, creating problems that could last a lifetime. A new effort is trying to help those most at risk. For weeks, teachers and other volunteers from the Genesee Intermediate School District have been […]