The Duneland School Corp. School Board approved a redistricting plan Monday to balance enrollment between Liberty and Westchester Intermediate Schools beginning in the 2023-24 school year. The plan shifts students in the southern section of Yost Elementary School’s enrollment area to Liberty for intermediate grades (5 and 6) and middle school grades (7 and 8). […]
In her own words: I am a wife, mother to one amazing daughter, and a fully trained human to a Chihuahua. I am a certified special education teacher and have been a special educator for 30 years. I now work as a special education consultant, Master IEP Coach® and am a member of the Master […]
Posted on January 27, 2022 After holding our breath for several days, the ACT Government has announced Canberra students will be returning to school as planned, but with additional testing and health measures to help manage the spread of COVID-19 in the Territory. But are we now seeing in relief? Many of us still feel […]
Around 1,000 U-46 students had to be quarantined this school year, according to circular documents. Tutors will work with all grade levels except preschoolers, who will continue to work with their assigned teachers should they miss a school, officials said.
“Misguided idea” Mike Jones, president of Madison Teachers Inc., the teachers’ union, said the district had increased the number of counselors in the district’s middle schools, but there was no noticeable increase in the number of counselors in the elementary schools or the county’s four main high schools beyond that Staff of the Restorative Justice […]
Mike Jones, president of Madison Teachers Inc., the teachers’ union, said the district had increased the number of counselors in the district middle schools, but there had been no noticeable increases in counselors in the elementary schools or the four main high schools in the district beyond Restorative Justice Security Assistants who replaced the SROs. […]
The allegations were made during a meeting of the Leeds City Council Children and Family Committee to discuss a report on the City Council’s strategy for including children with special educational needs – known as SEND students – in mainstream schools. A report by Leeds City Council officials claimed the number of children in the […]
By Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter Raleigh, NC – Groups fighting for fairer education funding will tell a judge on Monday how to encourage lawmakers to change laws and spend more on schools. State Superior Court Justice W. David Lee has ordered the state to change the way schools are funded by spending billions more. […]
Employers in Ontario’s public education system and several key health care facilities must have COVID-19 vaccination policies for their employees in the coming weeks, the province said Tuesday. As the provincial government goes through a fourth wave of the pandemic, it issued a press release saying the guidelines are needed to combat the spread of […]
We all feel so unsure what this fall will be like as the cases rise and the new school year looms, but you know what they’re saying … laughter is the best medicine. (Well, vaccines are the best medicine. To be vaccinated! Seriously). In these pandemic times when the news is so scary, the only […]
School districts that are already in the middle of reforming school policy must now adopt new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a reversal of the previous guidelines, the agency announced that it would now recommend masking in schools. We know from the pandemic it works, kids who went to school […]
The looming spate of legal disputes over special education following the pandemic could be averted – or at least minimized – by a new initiative in California that encourages parents and schools to resolve disputes before going to court. The state budget, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this month, provides $ 100 million to […]
