Some Omaha-area school districts are mounting bleeding control kits inside schools and training staff and students to use them. The kits contain tourniquets and pressure bandages to stop bleeding from traumatic wounds.

In 2017, health insurance for active and retired school employees cost $1.9 billion, accounting for 12 percent of the $15.7 billion spent overall on Massachusetts schools. The costs increased 12.2 percent from 2013, growing at a faster clip than salaries for classroom teachers (11.8 percent).

Applying concepts founded in technology to support language acquisition for English learners helps to integrate the technological part of STEM in the classroom, says Lori Menning, a consultant for Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6. Her presentation at FETC in Orlando, Fla., connected technologies with best practices developed through research and classroom experiences.

EMS LINQ INC's new Education Resource Management integrates school district technologies into one system with single-sign-on access to unify school districts' school accounting, e-commerce, nutrition management, school website development, real-time notifications, student registration and data analytics .

The medication paramedics use to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose could soon be in high school classrooms in Alabama. Usually, nurses and other licensed personnel are the only people who can administer Naloxone at schools, but a new training program would allow administrators and coaches to as well.

The Vermont House of Representatives will vote this week on postponing implementation of a controversial school governance law. Many are asking lawmakers to postpone the school merger mandate by one year, to let a court case challenging the constitutionality of that order play out before forcing districts' hands.

Legislatures from the Bible Belt to the Dakotas are mulling bills that would establish biblical literacy courses in high schools, but some education analysts say classes focusing on the Bible's cultural and historical relevance already are offered in public schools in those states and elsewhere.

For over a year, the threat of a state takeover has loomed over the Houston school district because of poor academics at several schools. Now, the elected board could be replaced with outside managers for an entirely different reason: governance.