Legislation (S.1732/A.6091) amends the education law to require that student governments in high schools or district wide areas are established where they currently do not exist. The board of education or trustees of each school district serving high school students in grades nine through 12 with no districtwide or school building peer selected student government must establish a student government system.
State Senator Shelley Mayer said, “Participation in student government is a direct, hands-on way for young people to experience and learn the value of representative democracy. I am pleased every high school student in New York State will have… Read More
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The longstanding academic failure of Wheatley High School was cited as one reason for the district takeover.
As students walked out of their first day of classes at Wheatley High School, first-year Nallely Cedillo had one complaint.
“So far I like it, but the only thing that I feel is kind of harsh is that we have to work the first day we go into school,” Cedillo said. “No getting to know the students, getting to know what to really do, it’s just straight into work.”
Superintendent Mike Miles was installed by the… Read More
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Georgia high schools continued to make marginal gains in the percentage of students who graduated on time, with a rate of 84.4% for the class of 2023.
That “four-year adjusted cohort rate,” as the federal government calls it, was up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year, the Georgia Department of Education announced on Tuesday.
With one exception, the state has made steady — and generally incremental — annual improvements since the new measure was implemented over a decade ago.
The exception was in the… Read More
When people graduate high school, often, there are many skills they don’t have to help them get through day-to-day life.
“Sure, people use the stuff like a-squared plus b-squared and how to read, but we need more life on experience,” says Nick Gillis, a Grade 12 student at Forest Heights Community School in Chester, NS
But the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development hopes to change that.
“I really do think of it as kind of ‘Adulting 101,’” says Becky Druhan, the province’s education minister. “We’ve never really had that built into the course before in our system.”
A… Read More
Schools in England are set to receive their highest ever funding in real terms, totaling almost £60 billion for 2024-25 as the government today announced the extra funding they will receive through the National Funding Formula (NFF).
Mainstream schools in England will receive an average of around £6,000 for each pupil from next year through the NFF, with additional funding for teacher pay coming on top of that. More money than ever before is being invested in schools, ensuring every child gets a world class education.
Overall, funding will be at its highest ever level in real terms per pupil… Read More
It’s the start of English 11 class at Birmingham Charter in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and teacher Lindsay Humphrey has planned an activity to show how computers experience sound. She will play a song and then ask the students to guess which visual waveform represents the music they heard. The point of the lesson: Music is one of many examples where computers “see” differently from humans. For many in the class, this will be their first exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and she’s excited to see how they react to it.
Humphrey is a Stanford Hollyhock… Read More
US News & World Report is out with its 2023 Best High Schools rankings and while most schools are making repeat appearances from past years, there are twice as many new names on this list as last year and many find themselves in new spots.
Montgomery’s Loveless Academic Magnet Program landed the top spot as it has the last three years, followed by Mountain Brook High School and Homewood High School, both of which climbed from last year.
“Having access to a strong high school program is paramount for students as they face an ever-changing world,” said Liana Loewus, managing… Read More
