

Calling all K-12 teachers, students, parents, staff members and administrators! Submit a video to the second annual Blackboard K-12 Video Testimonial Contest and share with your peers in the Blackboard user community how you're using Blackboard technologies to impact teaching and learning in your K-12 school or district. The top five video producers will receive free admission to BbWorld '08, Blackboard's annual users conference to be held in Las Vegas, July 15-17. For more information and official rules, visit http://www.blackboard.com/k12 Share with everyone how you visualize teaching and learning!
| Education officials urge passage of Amendment One to help schools (The Tuscaloosa News) TUSCALOOSA | Fresh from making budget cuts for the 2008-09 fiscal year, local education officials are urging voter support of Amendment One to prepare for possibly even worse financial times. |
| Sex education in Bay County schools doesn't go far enough, students say (The Bay City Times) In Bay County, where 264 teens got pregnant in 2005 and at least 100 contracted a sexually transmitted infection last year, teaching birth control and the use of condoms to prevent disease is a no-no. Most districts do not teach any kind of sex education beyond the state-mandated instruction on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. The one district that will add a sex education program ... |
| STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION RECEIVES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADOPTION OF TEXTBOOKS (WAAY-TV Huntsville) Montgomery, Ala. - At its monthly K-12 meeting on Oct. 9, the Alabama State Board of Education received recommendations for adoption of textbooks for English language arts and the Bible as literature elective |
| Ames schools fulfill supply fee ruling (Mid-Iowa News) The Ames Community School District charges each child in K-12 a $50 supply fee that is paid during registration. According to the Iowa Department of Education Declaratory Ruling released Aug. 4, those fees may be allowed if calculations support the fee. |
| KEMP Technologies Accelerates Website Efficiency for K-12 Schools and Universities (Centre Daily Times) KEMP Technologies, a leading provider of affordable server load balancers and application delivery controllers, today announced continued success with universities and K-12 schools choosing KEMP products to deliver secure and reliable web access to students and faculty. Educational institutions looking for affordable solutions are selecting KEMP's LoadMaster devices to meet the challenges of ... |
