September 30, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
3 Delaware schools earn Blue Ribbon awards
Three Delaware schools have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools, one of the highest honors bestowed by the U.S. Department of Education. The schools are: Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, Lake Forest East Elementary School in Frederica, and W.B. Simpson Elementary School in Wyoming.
Delaware State News
Three Delaware schools earn national blue ribbons
Three Delaware schools are among 335 schools that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recognized Tuesday as 2015 National Blue Ribbon Schools, based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in improving student academic achievement.
UDaily
Strengthening education: Delaware Teachers Institute expands its reach to Kent, Sussex
The Delaware Teachers Institute, a one-of-a-kind partnership between the University of Delaware and several public school districts in the state designed to strengthen teaching and learning, has expanded to include districts from southern Delaware for the first time.
Newsworks
Embattled Delaware charter elects to stay open
A struggling Wilmington charter school elected Monday to keep its doors open despite flagging enrollment and concerns over school climate. The Delaware Met, which serves ninth and tenth graders, opened just over a month ago in downtown Wilmington.
Credit card company donates supplies to Delaware school
Capital One donated several containers full of supplies to one Wilmington school that really needed it. A team of volunteers from the credit card company dropped off boxes full of notebooks, pens, pencils and crayons at the Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington on Tuesday.
WDEL
Wilmington Education Improvement Commission starts to fill in framework for redistricting plan
The Wilmington Education Improvement Commission (WEIC) continued its town hall series on Tuesday. Members of WEIC held their fifth town hall and still have plenty more to host before they go before the state Board of Education with a plan to redistrict schools within the city of Wilmington.
Dover Post
Capital makes room for struggling students
A large number of students with behavioral problems has prompted the Capital School District to expand its programs at Parkway Academy Central, the county-wide school that educates wayward students. The new evening program has classes for students who were unable able to get into the existing Parkway day program. Like its daytime counterpart, it will provide academic, behavioral and counseling services. The teachers and administrators focus on putting students back on track.
Newark Post
Targett: UD ‘not doing enough’ to address inequality
“I’m proud of UD, as we all should be, but the events of last week have also given me some additional perspective about my university that found me with feelings of both pain and pride,” she said, speaking to a crowd of faculty and students gathered in Trabant University Center. “I have pain because I was worried about the feelings of disenfranchisement, for students in particular but also for faculty, that could be part of our campus.”
National News
The Clarion-Ledger
Auditor: Schools could save $200M with shared services
Mississippi school districts could save over $200 million a year by eliminating inefficient contracts and sharing services such as facilities maintenance, textbooks and transportation with other school districts, a report by the state auditor’s office says.
Education Week
Civil rights groups: Beef up accountability in NCLB rewrite
Blog post by Alyson Klein
No Child Left Behind conference negotiations are expected to kick off in earnest this fall. And accountability, particularly for poor students, students of color, and special populations of children (think English-language learners) will likely be a really big issue. Neither the Republican-only House bill, nor the Senate’s bipartisan bill goes far enough in calling for states to hold schools accountable for the progress of long-overlooked students, according to the Obama administration. And that sentiment goes double for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of civil rights groups.
Data Quality Campaign
Student data privacy legislation: What happened in 2015, and what is next?
Safeguarding data is a critical component of effective data use, and this complex and critical issue has continued to evolve over the last year. The student data privacy bills introduced in 2015 reflect both continued and newly developing student data privacy conversations in states and at the federal level. In 2014, 21 states passed 24 new student data privacy laws.
New York Observer
News Corp’s Amplify Education laid off an estimated two-thirds of staff
Multiple sources inside and outside the company said that most of its staff lost their jobs today, effective immediately, at around 10:30 a.m.
Governing
Can comprehensive collaboration improve outcomes for students?
The Road Map Project is a stunning array of foundations, educators, community organizations, parents and researchers aimed at doubling the number of students who are on track to graduate from college or earn a career credential by 2020.
The Washington Post
The scramble to save an aging student aid program
A bipartisan coalition in Congress is working to save a federal loan for the neediest college students that is set to expire next week. But some education experts and lawmakers say it may be time to let the Federal Perkins Loan Program die.