Afternoon Announcements: Independent Report on Digital Learning Efforts Released today in West Virginia

“Gov. Tomblin, the Legislature, and the State Board of Education have shown strong leadership in improving education by using Project 24 for all of West Virginia,” said Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education in a statement on the release of an independent report. Alliance for Excellent Education

Nearly half of the school districts in Arizona are not using state funding intended to target low-income students to reach that demographic. Arkansas News

Education Week will no longer rank states in its annual Quality Counts report. Instead, it will issue each state a grade for its education efforts. The Baltimore Sun

The superintendent of a school district in western Massachusetts is looking at options for a four-day school week as a means to save money and improve education. Education Week