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School districts grapple with looming fiscal crisis

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:22am
For decades, public workers, including teachers, have been promised pensions and health care benefits when they retire. As more baby boomers do so, states are starting to pay out – and coming to grips with the fact that they’ve negotiated themselves into a fiscal crisis.

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HechingerEd

Some Indiana schools cut hours of part-time workers to avoid federal health care requirements

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:14am
Schools across Indiana are cutting back the hours of teacher assistants, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and other aides to avoid having to offer them health insurance under the federal health-care employer mandate that begins next year.

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IndyStar.com

Governors would get more say on schools under GOP proposals to rewrite No Child Left Behind

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:10am
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge of classrooms under companion bills Senate and House Republicans introduced Thursday.

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AP via DallasNews.com

Are the Chicago Public Schools enrollment figures for closing schools reliable?

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:07am
The district's new enrollment figure may be inflated, as administrators at some closing schools said that because they were under pressure to get children signed up, they went ahead and enrolled students whose parents could not be contacted.

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Chicago Tribune

Obama promises high-speed Internet in most schools in 5 years

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:03am
President Obama has called on the Federal Communications Commission to expand an existing program to provide discounted high-speed Internet service to schools and libraries, even if it means increasing the fees that for years had been added to consumers’ phone bills.

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The New York Times

To have successful digital classrooms, we need bandwidth

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 4:47pm
Across the country, the school year is drawing to a close. Students are taking tests and packing up their backpacks. They are counting down, as they always do, to the last day of class. Though no comparable countdown exists, what is also drawing to a close is the analog era of education.

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Politico

Raleigh, N.C. public school students take too many tests, governor says

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 4:41pm
Raleigh Public school students take too many tests, Gov. Pat McCrory told education leaders Wednesday, and the state needs to figure out how to lighten the load. During a meeting with the State Board of Education, McCrory said he has instructed his new senior education adviser, Eric Guckian, to identify which tests are unnecessary and report back by the end of the summer.

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Charlotte Observer

CIO News: Schools accelerate shift to digital

Submitted by Matt Zalaznick on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 4:32pm

Districts are trading print for digital textbooks, with 22 states making significant digital content policy changes in recent years—altering the definition of a textbook and encouraging flexible funding.

Cloud technology forecast: Sunshine with chance of showers

Submitted by Matt Zalaznick on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 4:29pm

Cloud computing is taking K12 by storm with fully 90 percent of K12 institutions relying on or implementing cloud technology in 2012, according to the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

Closing early education gaps for at-risk students

Submitted by Matt Zalaznick on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 4:26pm

Students who are identified early as at-risk and get support like extra reading have a better chance at graduating high school. But many students are unable to access early education opportunities.

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