on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 10:37am The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and a group of Chicago parents are asking a circuit court to block the school board from shutting down ten of the city’s schools. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the plaintiffs claim that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) violated...
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 10:03am In choosing a top administrator from a school district in St. Louis as the next Poughkeepsie superintendent, the board hopes to boost student achievement. The Poughkeepsie City School District Board of Education on Wednesday night appointed Nicole Williams superint...
Minneapolis superintendent's efforts deserve support on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:31am A new plan by Minneapolis Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson (“Johnson gets blunt with Minneapolis teachers,” May 28) will help remedy some of the worst educational inequities in the nation and raise...
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:17am The Buena Vista School District Board of Education isn't satisfied with Superintendent Deborah Hunter-Harvill's job performance. About Us District Administration is the most widely received, most regularly read publication for K12 district-level school leade...
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:49am School officials across the country responded to a surge in juvenile crime during the 1980s and the Columbine High School shootings a decade later by tightening disciplinary policies and increasing the number of police patrolling public schools. One unfortunate resu...
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:00am With the introduction of Anthony Weiner into the New York City mayoral race, things in the Big Apple have definitely become more interesting (and that’s not just in the form of suggestive New York Post headlines). As Jonathan mentioned last week, the race for ...
Sioux Falls Schools superintendent's salary going up 4.87 percent on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:11am Sioux Falls School District Superintendent Pam Homan has agreed to a 4.87 percent salary increase next school year, passing up an additional $6,592 increase tied to the new teacher agreement. The ...
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 9:17am The Buena Vista School District Board of Education isn't satisfied with Superintendent Deborah Hunter-Harvill's job performance. About Us District Administration is the most widely received, most regularly read publication for K12 district-level school leade...
Texas school teachers would receive training to identify mental illness in their classrooms under a measure that has cleared the Texas Legislature, the Associated Press reports. Lawmakers sent the bill to the governor on Sunday. It would add the training to the requirements for a teaching cert...
We like our technological gizmos here in Corvallis, so it's a brave thing when a public official in a public setting dares to utter even a well-reasoned word of caution, the Corvallis Gazette-Times reports. In that light, we were intrigued by a small note in a story you might have noticed ...
Ann Ware is the project director for Closing the Gap, a joint project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. District Administration, May 2013 Latest Jobs 5/24/2013 About Us District Administration is the most widely received, most regularly read publication for K12 district-level ...
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 12:57pm Fostering a data-rich culture K12 districts and decision makers recognize the importance of leveraging educational data to make informed decisions that support student academic success. Congressional leaders regularly request educational data to apprise them on statew...
Study highlights Chattanooga (Tenn.) region's education gap on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:56am In Hamilton County, there are parallel worlds -- with crime, with health, and with schools. There are the inner-city streets ridden with gangs and drugs. And there are the neatly appointed homes in pea...
on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:58am From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones. It's a societal norm, an expectation even, that you just are what you are born — a boy or a girl. From early on, we divide toys and activities by very distinct gender...
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