GEORGIA STATE BOARD ACTS TO REMOVE ALL MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD — In a unanimous decision, the Georgia State Board of Education recommended the removal of every member of the Miller County school board after it failed to reconcile its dysfunctional relationship with the local superintendent. A state law passed last June permits the state [...]

UTAH GOVERNOR VETOES CONTROVERSIAL SEX-ED BILL — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert vetoed a bill that would have required schools to teach an abstinence-only sex education curriculum and banned instruction about sexual intercourse and contraception. Had the governor signed the law, Utah would have become the first state to explicitly ban instruction about contraception. Standing law allows parents to choose where [...]

The Learning First Alliance (LFA) welcomes Jim Kohlmoos to its Board of Directors.   View Full Article

ARKANSAS SBOE REJECTS PROPOSED MERGER OF SMALL DISTRICTS — The Arkansas State Board of Education turned down the merger request of two low-enrollment, rural school districts. The nine-member board rejected the merger when the panel deadlocked at 4-4 with one abstention. The application to join the 330-student Lead Hill district with the larger Ozark Mountain district [...]

The Learning First Alliance (LFA), a partnership of 16 leading education associations with more than 10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America’s public schools, welcomes Jim Kohlmoos to its Board of Directors. Kohlmoos recently became executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). View Full Article

MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICT APPROVES ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ SETTLEMENT IN BULLYING SUIT — The Anoka-Hennepin School District, Minnesota’s largest, settled a lawsuit brought by six current and former students who charged the district with inadequately responding to persistent physical and verbal harassment related to real or perceived sexual orientation. The consent decree creates a five-year partnership between the district [...]

CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS STATE’S TAKEOVER OF BRIDGEPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT — The Connecticut State Board of Education’s vote last July to take over the Bridgeport Board of Education was nullified this week in a ruling by the state Supreme Court. Bridgeport’s mayor and a majority of the city’s education board approached the state board last summer [...]

NASBE Executive Director Jim Kohlmoos describes the future of public education as a migration to using evidence-based reforms to inform policy and practice.

Arlington, VA — Jim Kohlmoos, executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), will serve on the new Commission on Standards and Performance Reporting to help raise the bar for teacher preparation. The Commission was created by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the new accrediting body formed through [...]

NASBE Executive Director Jim Kohlmoos discusses the future of education reform and the migration of education policy to an evidence-based practice. Listen to Podcast