With the mask mandate no longer in effect, a fairly calm meeting appears to be in store for the Columbia School Board on Monday. The agenda includes a vote on next year’s school calendar and presentations on district revenue and a kindness club at Gentry Middle School. Revenue update Heather McArthur, chief financial officer for […]
Legacy Elementary School, Ashburn, Virginia. by James C. Sherlock Very few like the concept of full-time online education for children. They do not find it an attractive option for teachers in front of the children in normal school classrooms. Neither do I. They believe, and science corroborates, that classroom training has significantly more value than […]
For decades, public schools have been required by law to provide “free and adequate education” to children with disabilities. The system that makes this possible is a complex web of acronyms and regulations that govern services and support. We call it special education. Special Education refers to a set of federal and state laws and […]
Missouri has so much money coming so quickly from federal COVID-19 relief laws that it risks losing nearly $ 2 billion to schools. When Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven asked for support for projects to improve teacher retention last week, the members of the federal subcommittee on stimulus spending wanted to know how an important federal […]
NEW YORK, July 20, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Leeds Equity Partners (“Leeds Equity”), the new York-based private equity firm and eLuma (the “Company”), a leading two-way marketplace for the delivery of live, online special education and mental health services and software to K-12 districts, schools and their students throughout Land, announced today that Leeds […]
Prior to the bill, many but not all schools in North Dakota had Native American studies, Baesler said. The passing has raised awareness of resources available to teachers such as the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the State Department of Public Instruction, she said. The scope of the curriculum is left to the […]
