Spectrum News - District 91心頭istration District 91心頭istration Media Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Maine students report improved mental health, less substance use /maine-students-report-improved-mental-health-less-substance-use/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:49:26 +0000 /?p=179844 Data collected last spring show the percentage of students who say they feel sad or hopeless for two or more weeks in a row dropped from 35% in 2023 to 28% in 2025.

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]]> Maine high school students are using less alcohol and cannabis, and their mental health is improving, new survey results show.

Every two years, the state conducts the Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey to get a read on how students are faring and to see where improvements are needed.

Data collected last spring show the percentage of students who say they feel sad or hopeless for two or more weeks in a row dropped from 35% in 2023 to 28% in 2025.

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]]> Ohio schools edit DEI policies ahead of deadline /ohio-schools-edit-dei-policies-ahead-of-deadline/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:16:12 +0000 /?p=171772 Ohio State is closing its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and its Center for Belonging and Social Change while eliminating 16 staff positions in those offices.

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]]> The latest university to make significant changes is The Ohio State University. In a university senate meeting on Thursday, Ohio State University President Ted Carter announced the changes.

Ohio State is closing its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and its Center for Belonging and Social Change while eliminating 16 staff positions in those offices. The university is also halting all DEI programming and renaming the Office of Institutional Equity to the Office of Civil Rights.

Akron Public Schools is also considering sweeping changes to its DEI initiatives in order to comply with federal directives.

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]]> New AI-based gun detection software aims to protect schools from gun violence /article/new-ai-based-gun-detection-software-aims-to-protect-schools-from-gun-violence/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:05:19 +0000 /?p=169246 The Zeroeyes AI-based gun detection software connects to pre-existing cameras in a school and can detect weapons with artificial intelligence. Military trained operation experts verify detected weapons, before alerting the schools staff, security and local 911.

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]]> Connie Altier is the superintendent of Tri-County Career Center, the first school in the region to use the Zeroeyes AI-based gun detection software.

The staff is very excited about it. And also a lot of them were very intrigued on how I could do that and how advanced the technology is, said Altier.

The system connects to the pre-existing cameras in the school and with artificial intelligence can detect weapons. Once a weapon is detected by AI, then military trained operation experts verify the detection, before alerting the schools staff, security and local 911.

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]]> Disappearing Dollars: Texas public schools are missing millions /article/disappearing-dollars-texas-public-schools-are-missing-millions/ Wed, 15 May 2024 12:25:16 +0000 /?p=162603 At a time when public schools across Texas battle huge budget deficits and drastic cuts, Spectrum News has uncovered millions of Texas public school tax dollars being diverted out of state.

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]]> At a time when public schools across Texas battle huge budget deficits and drastic cuts, Spectrum News has uncovered millions of Texas public school tax dollars being diverted out of state. The man believed to be responsible is Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles, whose network of charter schools in Colorado is in need of cash.

In schools all across Texas, dedicated teachers and panicked parents speak out in passion and frustration.

The state of public education in Texas is dire, said Ovidia Molina, president of the Texas State Teachers Association. We have educators leaving the profession. We have schools that are talking about closing from all parts of our state.

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]]> New Yorks rural school districts say theyre at a critical moment /article/new-yorks-rural-school-districts-say-theyre-at-a-critical-moment/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:41:55 +0000 /?p=156862 Depending on how legislators respond to their needs, these school systems will either remain vibrant economic and social incubators that prepare children to rebuild the states rural culture or those same children could end up with lives of diminished opportunity.

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]]> After traveling around the state this fall holding over a dozen forums with rural school officials from Fredonia to Montauk,” David Little, executive director of the Rural Schools Association of New York (RSA), told Capital Tonight that rural school districts are at a critical moment. Depending on how Albany responds to their needs this coming legislative session, they will either remain vibrant economic and social incubators that properly prepare children to rebuild the states rural culture or those same children could end up with lives of diminished opportunity.

New York state used to have two and half times the amount of agriculture that it does now. It used to have to have a very vibrant upstate rural economy, Little said. Now, between the pandemic and the Great Recession that immediately preceded it, weve had the largest outward migration of people in U.S. history, except for the Dust Bowl during the Depression.

According to Little, state and federal emergency aid investments have allowed rural schools to begin restoring needed programs and services, but without some key changes, that restoration will be stunted.

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