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• Accounts Receiable Clerk - Healthcare / Hospital Collections Experience a MUST

  03-04-2020 14:54
  NY-New York, Job Description: Our direct client is looking for a skilled Accounts Receivable Clerk for their New York, NY location to provide financial, administrative and clerical services. Accounts receivable duties include ensuring accuracy and efficiency of operations, processing and monitoring incoming payments, and securing revenue by verifying and posting receipts. Responsibilities: Process accounts and
  
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• Trump’s school voucher program could become a public school cash machine

  24-08-2026 14:57 via districtadministration.com
  
  Forget student fun runs, PTA bake sales and Saturday morning car washes.
  The future of public-school fundraising may soon look more like a payroll deduction. Or perhaps door-to-door campaigns each tax season asking filers to earmark donations to support nearby public schools.
  When President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul known as the One Big Beautiful Bill last year created the first national school-voucher-style program to help families pay for private schools or home-school costs, it allowe
  
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• How big tech captured American schools

  24-08-2026 14:54 via districtadministration.com
  
  One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The educators were there for a workshop on the school technology of the moment: artificial intelligence chatbots.
  The Microsoft team gave a presentation on their Copilot chatbot and asked the teachers to practice using it for tasks like generating emails to parents and customizing lesson plans. Microsoft instructors also screened an A.I
  
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• Nebraska’s largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students

  21-08-2026 14:33 via districtadministration.com
  
  Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
  The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
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• Utah’s largest school district just welcomed students back for the final time. Here’s how it will soon split into 3.

  20-08-2026 15:20 via districtadministration.com
  
  After 28 years with Alpine School District, Principal David Turner welcomed students back to Centennial Elementary on Wednesday with a deep sense of gratitude.
  “There are a lot of memories that I have of my career and Alpine,” Turner said. “It has been a marvelous ride.”
  The morning marked Alpine School District’s final first day of school before the entire district dissolves.
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• Florida school board at the center of culture wars loses conservative majority

  20-08-2026 15:17 via districtadministration.com
  
  A Florida school board that was at the epicenter of national debates over covid mask mandates and book bans lost its conservative majority this week, a change that some say signals a priority shift among voters.
  Two Democrat-backed candidates beat out conservatives in Tuesday’s school board election in Sarasota, Florida, flipping the board’s majority. Helmed for the past year by a co-founder of Moms for Liberty — a conservative group that gained a national following with its pa
  
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• Which AI chatbot did this school use to make such a ridiculous map?

  19-08-2026 14:25 via districtadministration.com
  
  You’ve probably seen the story by now. A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky is listed as “Venecky.” There’s an extra planet called Marc, and Saturn is listed as “Sature,” among countless other gibberish errors.
  But our big question after looking at this story is one we hav
  
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• 15 states have laws that allow corporal punishment in schools. Here’s where, and why

  19-08-2026 14:21 via districtadministration.com
  
  One day, about eight years ago, when Tessa Davis’ son was in kindergarten, she got a call from his school outside Little Rock, Ark. She said the school told her he had grabbed a girl’s jacket in the cafeteria and twisted it – they thought he was trying to choke her.
  Given his past misbehavior, Davis said, the school gave her two options: He could either be suspended for three days or a school administrator could paddle him. NPR is only identifying her son by his first initial,
  
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• [Download] Career Awareness and Exploration in Middle School

  18-08-2026 21:59 via districtadministration.com
  
  Career Exploration Starts Earlier Than You Think
  When should career exploration begin? According to the research highlighted in this new guide, the answer is much earlier than many districts realize. Middle school is a pivotal time to help students connect their interests with future careers while introducing the skills and pathways that will shape their success. 
  Download this new guide to explore practical, age-appropriate strategies for introducing career awareness and exploration before
  
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• Entire school board in Georgia district suspended

  18-08-2026 16:12 via districtadministration.com
  
  Gov. Brian Kemp has agreed to suspend all seven members of a Georgia school district.
  The Georgia Board of Education recommended suspending the Dublin City Schools Board of Education in 10-0 vote last week. On Monday, Kemp signed an executive order to suspend the entire school board.
  The state originally tried to hold the hearing in June, but a decision was not made. Last Wednesday, both the state and the Dublin City Schools Board laid out their case again before the vote.
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• US school vaccination rates inch down yet again and exemptions reach record high

  18-08-2026 16:08 via districtadministration.com
  
  U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday.
  The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.2%, up from 3.6% the year before. That’s an estimated 155,000 children nationally during the 2025-2026 school year.
  It’s the fourth consecutive year that the national average exemption rate has reached a record, and the vast majority are parents wit
  
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• These kids are learning without technology in Seattle Public Schools

  17-08-2026 16:18 via districtadministration.com
  
  As a seventh grader at Hazel Wolf K-8 in Northeast Seattle, Maxwell Adams didn’t have a laptop or a cellphone at school.
  During science class, he sometimes looked at his classmate’s screen if he needed to see a problem in color, because the black-and-white printout his teacher gave him wasn’t sufficient. In history class, when assigned to create a PowerPoint presentation, he made a poster board instead. At lunch, he played football or basketball while some of his peers played c
  
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• Texas lawmakers push for later school start dates amid summer heat

  17-08-2026 16:15 via districtadministration.com
  
  As students across Texas return to classrooms this month, a state lawmaker is pushing for a major change to when the school year can begin.
  State Rep. Jared Patterson is preparing legislation that would move the start of the school year to after Labor Day, arguing that students and school staff should not have to return during the hottest part of the Texas summer.
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• 15% of Texas Schools scored below a ‘C’ on the state accountability scores

  14-08-2026 15:57 via districtadministration.com
  
  The Texas Education Agency released accountability scores for all Texas schools Friday morning. The scores grade how well specific campuses and school districts as a whole perform academically and prepare students for college and to enter the workforce. Scores this year cover the 2025 – 2026 school year.
  1,202 districts and 9,105 campuses were rated in 2026. 24% of both districts and campuses increased in rating compared to 2025. 585 campuses across Texas improved from below an A to an A r
  
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• Chronic absenteeism remains high six years after pandemic began

  13-08-2026 15:15 via districtadministration.com
  
  Millions of American children are regularly missing class.
  Nearly a quarter of American children did not show up for school regularly last year, data shows.
  Chronic absenteeism continues to decline slowly at public schools across the country but remains higher now than it was before the pandemic, according to data collected from 45 states by the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market-oriented think tank.
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• Why transportation is such an important student success factor

  13-08-2026 15:10 via districtadministration.com
  
  Reliable transportation is a stronger driver of student success than districts may realize, according to new research from student transportation provider EverDriven.
  The study surveyed 812 parents, teachers and district administrators connected to students with additional needs. The results suggest that transportation consistency directly affects attendance, classroom readiness, instructional time and even district funding.
  Student readiness starts before the school day
  The study found that rel
  
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• The McKinney-Vento Challenge: Turning the “Without Delay” Transportation Standard into Reality

  13-08-2026 15:05 via districtadministration.com
  
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  Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, districts must arrange transportation for students experiencing homelessness “without delay” from the moment a student is identified. New national survey data tells a different story: Only 14% of districts can arrange a ride the same day, and 31% need three or more days. For a population that moves three or more times a year on average, that gap adds up to miss
  
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• The Missing Piece in Attendance Improvement: Stronger Family Partnerships

  12-08-2026 18:54 via districtadministration.com
  
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  Districts have invested heavily in attendance systems, early warning indicators, and intervention teams. Yet many are still asking the same question: why aren’t attendance gains matching the effort?
  Research and district experience suggest that the missing piece is family engagement that goes beyond one-way notifications. By building stronger connections with families, schools can intervene earlier and more effective
  
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• Why is enrollment across DC-area school districts falling?

  12-08-2026 14:36 via districtadministration.com
  
  Prince William County School Board members in Virginia faced an uncomfortable reality during a meeting in February.
  With enrollment trends declining, and projections expecting that to continue, the board decided to nix plans for what it hoped would one day become its 14th high school.
  The division, the second largest in Virginia, envisioned a 1,400-student facility in Lake Ridge. But several delays, connected in part to enrollment data and increasing costs, prompted the board to ultimately hold
  
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• Schools spend billions on AI, but struggle to figure out what’s worth it

  12-08-2026 14:34 via districtadministration.com
  
  As a new school year begins, some classrooms may use artificial intelligence tools to flag a student struggling with classwork, track attendance or try to raise reading scores.
  But as school districts make decisions on which tools are safe and worth spending thousands or millions of dollars on, some officials feel overwhelmed by the array of choices. Some states and districts have begun offering guidance for vetting AI purchases, but educators and experts say districts are still carrying much of
  
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• Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by restoring Confederate names

  11-08-2026 13:50 via districtadministration.com
  
  A federal judge has ordered a Virginia school board to replace two Confederate school names it restored in 2024, ruling that the decision discriminated against Black students. The ruling is the latest turn in a fight that began when the Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit after the school board’s 2024 vote reversed changes made during the 2020 racial justice protests. The Confederate school names must now be changed again.
  In an opinion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Virginia, Judge M
  
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• The school year begins in LA with one big change

  11-08-2026 13:47 via districtadministration.com
  
  This year brings a new challenge for Armaghan Khan and many other teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district: Ban screen time for younger students, and significantly limit it for older kids.
  “This is going to be a big impact for me,” says Khan, who’s spent his career in the Los Angeles Unified School District. “I would say about 75% of our work was on some kind of screen-based activity.”
  As a science teacher Khan, has embraced technology. Not only
  
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• Rising computer costs threaten school-issued laptop programs

  10-08-2026 14:48 via districtadministration.com
  
  working to pull students out of a nationwide reading slump.
  While the collective learning loss remains one of the longest-lasting impacts from the pandemic, there was also a silver lining: student access to laptops.
  “We were not a school district that was able to be a one-to-one school district literally hours before school shut down for the pandemic — I mean literally hours before,” said Dan McGarry, superintendent of the Upper Darby School District.
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• Tough choices face Black parents when schools struggle

  10-08-2026 14:45 via districtadministration.com
  
  Jaleel is attending his first day of classes this month at a middle school opening its doors for the first time that specializes in air traffic control, commercial drones and engineering.
  His parents decided not to send him to the majority-Black, F-rated campus closer to their home in Fort Bend ISD. Still, they fear their sixth grader may lose out on the community and support that come with receiving an education alongside kids in his neighborhood.
  “This is a very difficult thing,” M
  
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• Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start, opening door for sweeping change

  07-08-2026 14:12 via districtadministration.com
  
  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed significant changes to Head Start, the nation’s early education program for children from low-income families. The move would diminish the program’s federal standards and give states and parents more control.
  “We have 1,600 Head Start providers across the country,” Alex Adams, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ assistant secretary for family support, said in a call with reporters. “And one-size-fit
  
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• When a Texas school police officer got ‘riled up’ over a defiant teen

  06-08-2026 15:45 via districtadministration.com
  
  Officer Marc Laue was seething.
  Minutes earlier, while patrolling the hallways of Judson High School in Converse, Texas, he had confronted a 15-year-old accused of pushing an assistant principal. The teenager, Jeremiah Johnson, cursed at the officer and walked away.
  Officer Laue grabbed repeatedly at Jeremiah’s arms and backpack, body camera footage of the encounter shows. When the boy pushed away, the officer wrapped his arms around him and took him to the floor.
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• Presidential prospect Glenn Youngkin launches group focused on education policy

  06-08-2026 15:41 via districtadministration.com
  
  Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, has founded a national policy group that will launch with a push to promote a new school choice program.
  Empowering America’s Parents will begin a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz targeting several battleground states, including Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a person familiar with the internal planning told NBC News.
  The states, led by Democratic governors, are among
  
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• How to elevate college and career readiness in 3 steps

  05-08-2026 14:42 via districtadministration.com
  
  District leaders are asking an urgent question: Does earning a high school diploma mean students are truly prepared for what comes next?
  Employers report that many graduates lack the skills needed for today’s workplace. Colleges continue to enroll students who require additional academic support before they can succeed in credit-bearing coursework.
  While these concerns are often framed as a readiness problem, they are ultimately a systems-design challenge.
  Readiness does not emerge from a
  
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• 9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year

  05-08-2026 13:44 via districtadministration.com
  
  Climate change is increasingly disrupting kids’ education. When extreme weather hits, schools often close for kids’ safety.
  Hurricanes, floods, storms, snow, freezing cold, and wildfire smoke can all prompt schools to shut their doors or send kids home early.
  And many schools, especially in northern areas, lack air conditioning and have had to close during extreme heat waves.
  Read or listen to more at Yale Climate Connections. The post 9 million U.S. students lost school time fo
  
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• How the costly digital age is leaving behind rural, underfunded schools

  05-08-2026 13:38 via districtadministration.com
  
  Matthew Splain, superintendent of the Otto-Eldred School District, said schools in his district are struggling to keep aging, refurbished laptops from dying on students.
  The district’s struggles are not isolated.
  Otto-Eldred is nestled in the mountains of rural McKean County. Like other schools in Pennsylvania’s remote areas, this district, too, faces recurrent fiscal challenges, is chronically underfunded and struggles to deliver students a future that promises technological innovat
  
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