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Colorado
16 hours ago

Adams 14 board selects national MGT Consulting as new pick to manage its district

The State Board of Education must approve the district's selected manager. It rejected the district's first pick.

Superintendent search

Tennessee
16 hours ago

Memphis school board appears poised to make superintendent choice with little public discussion

The Shelby County Schools board postponed discussion Tuesday of a resolution to suspend a national search for a superintendent and hire the interim leader.

money matters

Colorado
18 hours ago

Students with special needs get boost in Colorado school finance bill

Colorado school districts will get more money for students with more serious disabilities under a Public School Finance Act that received initial Senate…

on the list

Indiana
19 hours ago

Here are Indiana’s subject areas with the greatest teacher shortages

The state submitted the list of subjects for an annual federal report on teacher shortage areas.

Big money

Indiana
19 hours ago

Indiana’s proposed budget boosts education spending. But does it go far enough on teacher salaries?

Indiana lawmakers unveiled a revised budget Tuesday afternoon that would pump $539 million more into K-12 schools.
New York
19 hours ago

General Information Session: PreK–Grade 12

At BASIS Independent Brooklyn, passionate teachers and curious students outperform not just the schools in New York City and New York State, but schools all over…

Now What?

Indiana
21 hours ago

IPS hoped lawmakers would help them sell Broad Ripple. The final bill has a catch.

Purdue Polytechnic charter school could get dibs to space in the former Broad Ripple High School .

Getting them to school

Detroit
22 hours ago

Inside Detroit’s efforts to address one of the biggest obstacles to better schools: sky-high absenteeism

As the Detroit district tries to remake itself after years at the bottom of nearly every national school ranking, this is one of the problems it most needs to fix. Otherwise, the district’s other reforms, such as a new curriculum, won’t have a chance to make much impact.

First Person

Tennessee
22 hours ago

As the parent of African-American kids, this is what I want from Memphis’s next superintendent

I know superintendents come and go. Still, I hope our next schools chief can improve a system that often feels like it operates to keep certain communities in power.

Unprecedented

Tennessee
Updated 20 hours ago

Tennessee House passes education voucher bill for the first time, Senate vote to come

Tennessee House Representatives voted 50-48 on Tuesday for Gov. Bill Lee’s education savings account proposal.

to the races

New York
1 day ago

As de Blasio weighs a presidential run, will his New York City education record be an asset or liability?

In South Carolina, he boasted about boosting funding for needy schools to a roomful of teachers. Next, a…

First Person

Colorado
1 day ago

I worry my students are always on high alert. Here’s how I try to help.

We reminded students that even with the bad in the world, there is still more good. And then we let them go back to being teens.

hi!

National
1 day ago

Seven impressive journalists, 10 weeks, unlimited impact: Meet Chalkbeat’s 2019 summer interns

This year's intern class is larger than ever and for the first time includes multiple people who read Chalkbeat when they were in high school.
Colorado
1 day ago

Rise & Shine: Pot tax proceeds could help with full-day kindergarten start-up costs

Rise & Shine is Chalkbeat’s morning digest of education news. Subscribe to have it delivered to your inbox. EVALUATION OUTLOOK Colorado’s controversial teacher evaluation…
Tennessee
1 day ago

Rise & Shine: Longtime providers who lost Tennessee grants for infant and toddler services get sympathetic ear in legislature

EARLY INTERVENTION Half of Tennessee’s 35 longtime providers lost their state contracts in the latest award period in the Tennessee Early Intervention System, which provides educational…