Any digital educational materials created with federal grants would have to be openly licensed if a proposed Department of Education regulation is adopted.
District finance officials met to discuss their challenges and new initiatives, including working with educators on aligning expenditures and educational goals.
The Committee for Economic Development hosted a discussion of how competency-based education could fill gaps in workforce needs.
The decision to award a one-year, renewable contract to the nonprofit that manages the PARCC consortium impacts 172 schools serving 74,000 students.
About 200 educators will learn more about the common-core standards, which are implemented in American-curriculum private schools in the Middle East.
The district said that Pearson’s curriculum wasn’t the right solution for L.A. Unified now, but “we continue to work with Pearson in some areas.”
The State Educational Technology Directors Association has launched an online tool to help ed-tech companies, states, and districts learn about digital instructional material procurement.
The fast-growing LMS provider is the latest ed-tech company to announce an initial public offering, but it has yet to post a profit.
At least seven Southern California school districts allow commercial film production in their schools, but the revenue-raising practice has been suspended in L.A. Unified.
The indictment hinges on $23 million in no-bid contracts awarded by Barbara Byrd-Bennett, former Chicago schools CEO, to SUPES Academy and Synesi Associates.