August 31, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
Schools cheer kids’ return
Different districts and schools have different schedules, but Monday is the first day of school for many Delaware kids. It might be threatening rain in some places, but educators are working to make the environment energetic.
Delaware Public Media
Gov. Markell looks forward to new school year in weekly message
Gov. Jack Markell is welcoming Delaware students back for another school year in his weekly message — and he says he’s optimistic about a range of new educational initiatives.
Pulaski teachers “on the prowl” in Wilmington
Educators don’t always know what happens at a student’s home or understand how events may affect their behavior in school. To get better insight, some teachers in the Christina School District paid a visit to their students’ homes Thursday. Pulaski Elementary School teachers fanned out across their West Wilmington neighborhood as part of “Pulaski on the Prowl,” a reference to the school’s mascot, the Panther.
Sussex County Post
Donation arms high school nurses with overdose-reversing drug
School nurses in Delaware’s public high schools will be armed this school year with access an overdose-reversing drug through a donation to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) from a company that manufactures naloxone auto-injector units.
Education Week
Student-data-privacy legislation signed in Delaware latest in trend among states
Blog by Michelle R. Davis
A new law protecting student data in Delaware puts the onus on ed-tech vendors to keep identifiable student information private, and signals a continued emphasis on the issue by states.
National News
The Baltimore Sun
Maryland schools Superintendent Lowery resigns for new job
Maryland schools Superintendent Lillian Lowery, who shepherded the state through three years of upheaval in school curriculum and testing, abruptly announced Friday that she’s leaving the job. Lowery’s resignation — which shocked even those who worked closely with her — comes just months before the state faces important policy decisions on many of the initiatives she helped to shepherd, including the controversial Common Core standards as well as new tests and new teacher evaluations.
Delaware County Daily Times
Chester Upland faculty, staff agree to work without pay during budget crisis
More than 300 Chester Upland School District faculty members and support staff voted Thursday to work without pay if necessary after learning from Superintendent Gregory Shannon during their first day back at school that there are insufficient funds to meet the district’s first payroll of the school year.
Education Week
Rookie principals’ group sheds light on early-career challenges
A group of first- and second-year school leaders assembled by the National Association of Elementary School Principals provides support and data to one another.
Los Angeles Times
The newest lesson in pre-K
Expanded transitional kindergarten, or ETK, is a full-day, six-hour program for children who are 4 years old but will turn 5 during the school year, after Dec. 2. To enroll in one of the 117 programs offered in LAUSD, children must be low-income, learning English or foster youth.
NPR
New Orleans schools, 10 years after Katrina: Beacon or warning?
A decade is a natural moment to pause and look back. Our NPR Ed team spent lots of time over the past school year trying to find out what has happened to the kids from the Orleans Parish school system. Today, that system is, for all intents and purposes, no longer. Almost every student in the city attends a charter, private or parochial school.