Oil, Gas Boom Makes Some Texas School Districts Rich But Uneasy
School districts can get rich just as fast as the people in the oil bidness, and the poor-to-rich whiplash can have some weird aftereffects.
View ArticleTexas Tracks Students with Technology
At Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, parents and civil rights activists are concerned over students' privacy under a new "Student Locator Project," which involves using...
View ArticleLake Travis Gives Middle School Contract to Bartlett Cocke
The Lake Travis School District's board of trustees has selected Bartlett Cocke General Contractors for the $42 million construction of the new Lake Travis Middle School.
View ArticleAEP to host two LRMI sessions during ISTE
The Association of Educational Publishers will host a concurrent session, The New Age of Discovery: New Resource Metadata Standards, and a Birds-of-a-Feather Roundtable, LRMI: The Dewey Decimal System...
View ArticleSan Antonio to open second early college high school
The San Antonio Independent School District plans to open its second early college high school this year, giving more students a chance to earn college credit while earning their high school diplomas.
View ArticleLooking beyond building a digital, no-books library
I'm young for a librarian - 34 in a field where the median age is over 50. It should go without saying then that I'm not the least bit afraid of technology.
View ArticleHow schools are tackling truancy
District leaders across the country are broadening and personalizing their approaches to attendance because the old way of sending truants and their families to court often fails to bring students back...
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