July 16, 2015
Delaware News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Education reform, with focus on accountability
An op-ed by Chris Coons and Cory Booker
The Senate is debating major updates to our nation’s public school system for the first time in more than a decade. The legislation, which reforms 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, makes important strides to improve American education, but it could still leave far too many of our children behind. So we ask our colleagues in the Senate: Are we really doing everything we can to make sure all of our kids have the same opportunities to succeed? Right now, the answer is no.
Sussex County Post
Indian River Board of Education withdraws from DSBA
At a special July 13 meeting, the Indian River Board of Education voted not to renew its membership in the Delaware School Boards Association (DSBA) for the 2015-2016 school year. “The decision to leave DSBA was a very difficult one,” Indian River Board of Education President James Hudson said. “However, we believe DSBA no longer has the capacity to represent our interests statewide and in the Delaware legislature.”
Cape Gazette
Two Delaware teachers win Presidential Award for math, science teaching
Two Delaware teachers have won Presidential honors for their excellence in mathematics and science teaching. President Barrack Obama named Kristin Carmen of Sussex Technical High School and Christopher Havrilla of Woodbridge High School among the 108 recipients of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Each award comes with a $10,000 prize.
Middletown Transcript
Forsten elected as new school board president
At its monthly meeting on Tuesday, members of the Appoquinimink Board of Education elected new leaders. Richard Forsten, a partner with the law firm of Saul Ewing where he practices commercial real estate and land use, was unanimously elected by the five-member board as its new president.
National News
Arkansas Online
AR board passes switch to ACT
The state Board of Education voted to switch Arkansas’ public school testing program to the ACT and ACT Aspire exams, reversing course less than a month after rebuffing Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s recommendation that they do so.
Oregonian
Half of WA juniors skip test
Up to 53 percent of Washington juniors skipped Smarter Balanced exams this year, according to preliminary figures.
Stateline
State lawmakers delve into university policies
Chancellors, professors and students across the country noticed: During this year’s legislative sessions, state lawmakers frequently delved into policy matters traditionally left to universities themselves. Twenty-six states considered legislation to change universities’ sexual assault policies and campus adjudication processes and 17 debated bills that would allow people to carry a concealed weapon on college campuses.
Idaho Education News
ID business community pushes for change
Idaho’s business community is instigating an effort to change curriculum in order to produce graduates with improved critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Times Record
AR fine with hiring teaching students
The state Board of Education approved a proposal to allow public schools in the Mississippi Delta region of Arkansas to hire teaching students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello School of Education before the students have graduated.