August 16, 2017
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School nurses trained to administer overdose-reversal drug in Delaware
A team of adolescent and addiction medicine specialists at Boston University have found that the rate of opioid dependence among teenagers and young adults nationwide has surged in recent years. The team found that health insurance claims of 9.7 million youth, aged 13 to 25 years, were diagnosed with opioid use disorder, an analysis conducted from April 25 to December 31, 2016. What would happen if a teen were to overdose inside a Delaware school?
Delaware Public Media
New law aims to improve educator training on preventing child abuse
Legislation streamlining the training public school employees receive on issues like child sexual abuse, suicide prevention and bullying is now law. The bill Gov. John Carney signed Tuesday consolidates existing laws related to those topics and others, such as youth gang detection, and teen dating violence. It also creates a program to coordinate the training district and charter school employees are required to receive on those issues.
Department of Education
Governor Carney signs legislation improving training for educators to prevent child abuse
Governor John Carney on Tuesday signed into law Senate Bill 102, legislation supported by the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children that develops a coordinated training program for educators to detect and prevent child abuse. The bill consolidates Delaware law to improve child sexual abuse training and detection, suicide prevention, anti-bullying programs, criminal youth gang detection, and teen dating violence and sexual assault prevention.
Town Square Delaware
Kids ready for school thanks to backpack fest
Kids aren’t always happy to say goodbye to summer. But with school around the corner, these young children are excited and prepared for their first day of classes. The Faith Victory Christian Center held its annual Family Fling Backpack Festival this month, where they distributed free backpacks filled with school supplies to 800 children and youth.
Rodel Blog
Three things to know about Delaware state tests
Blog post by Jeremy Hidalgo, policy fellow, and Shyanne Miller, policy associate at the Rodel Foundation of Delaware
It’s that time of year again—the release of Smarter Assessment and SAT results. The Delaware Department of Education officially released data in late July. While reactions were mixed (see the official release from DDOE, as well as The News Journal’s reaction), we tried to look behind the numbers to shed a bit more light on the results.
National News
Chalkbeat
Feds to Colorado: You must count students who opt out of standardized tests
Colorado’s policy of not penalizing schools that fail to meet federal requirements for student participation in state tests isn’t going over well with the federal government. The U.S. Department of Education told state officials in a letter Friday that the policy is not acceptable. Colorado faces losing millions in federal funding if it doesn’t change course.
Chron
The most distinguished public schools in Houston’s suburbs, according to Texas education officials
Hundreds of schools across the state recently earned bragging rights. On Tuesday, the Texas Education Agency released a list of the best performing campuses in the state for the 2017 school year. Each year, the TEA compiles a list of schools that aced the agency’s “accountability ratings,” or school report card.
Education Week
Betsy DeVos greenlights ESSA plans for Connecticut, Louisiana
Add two more plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act to the “approved” pile: Connecticut and Louisiana. The states become the fifth and sixth to be approved by the U.S. Department of Education. Connecticut’s plan was approved even though it didn’t make some big changes that the feds wanted to see, including when it comes to calculating student achievement and measuring the performance of English-language learners.
NPR
Five years in, what’s next for DACA?
Demonstrators came from across the country to gather at the White House in support of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as toddlers and children. Five years ago today, President Obama signed an executive order protecting them from deportation. It’s known as DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
The New York Times
1 in 7 New York City elementary students will be homeless, report says
There were 100,000 homeless students in New York City public schools during the 2015-16 school year, a number equal to the population of Albany. The daunting challenges that creates, both for individual children struggling to learn and for schools trying to improve performance, are laid out in a report to be released on Wednesday by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.