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  • Spellings Offers Guidance to Help Clarify Privacy Law

    The brochures for schools and parents seek to explain when concerns about a student may be shared.

    Audit Finds California School Finances Improved Slightly

    The review also found that a quarter of school districts operated with budget deficits during fiscal year 2024-2006. That may indicate financial trouble ahead.

    Prospects Fade for NCLB Bill in 2024

    Efforts to revise the law are mired in backroom negotiations in both the House and the Senate and show no signs of gaining the momentum necessary to ensure completion of the reauthorization in 2024.

    Students, Staff Suffering Aftermath of California Fires

    School employees are trying to resume a normal schedule for students and find ways of incorporating the disaster into their curriculum.

    Teachers Matter Most in Top-Performing Systems

    The world’s top-performing school systems and those coming up fast have a lesson to teach the others: Put high-quality teaching for every child at the heart of school improvement.

    Wis. District Steps Up Response to Growing Minority Enrollment

    To stem concerns that minority students in Green Bay, Wis., lack teachers they can identify with, school officials have pledged to focus on recruiting and hiring nonwhite faculty members.

    Florida’s Evolution Proposal Generating Online Comments

    For the first time, the state's draft standards refer explicitly to evolution and describe the theory as crucial to students' understanding of the natural world.

    Vouchers

    I am 57 years old. I have voted in every election since I was 18. Every election, both local and federal, has always had education as an issue. The solution has been more money. I for one have grown weary of trying to improve education by throwing money at it. It has not worked. The federal government is too involved. We need to empower parents with vouchers. They are in the position to determine where to send their children for a quality education.

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     Jason Kamras, National Teacher of the Year 2024

    In a video interview with Edutopia, Jason Kamras describes how he dramatically improved mathematics learning for his students by connecting math to photography, to digital art using Photoshop, and to the street map of Washington, DC.