News Releases

SREB states saved $10.5 million in technology purchases in fiscal year 2023. Schools, universities and agencies in each of the 16 SREB states are eligible for discounts through SREB’s collaboration with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

The South Carolina Department of Education is the winner of the Southern Regional Education Board’s 2024 State Leadership Award for creating professional learning experiences for educators and implementing college- and career-readiness strategies. The state received the award July 9 at SREB’s Making Schools Work Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, TN – Carver High School in Birmingham, Alabama, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Nashville, TN – Lincoln County High School in Hamlin, West Virginia, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Nashville, TN – Floyd D. Johnson Technology Center in York, South Carolina, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board. The school was honored July 9 at SREB’s Making Schools Work Conference in Nashville.

Nashville, TN – Northland Career Center in Platte City, Missouri, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Nashville, TN – Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick, Washington, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Nashville, TN – Robert Anderson Middle School in Anderson, South Carolina, is the winner of a 2024 Gene Bottoms Pacesetter School Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Dallas – The second meeting of the Southern Regional Education Board Commission on AI in Education included a review of the commission’s charge, subcommittee presentations and a virtual conversation with Khan Academy founder Sal Khan.  

When: Wed., May 1, 2024, from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Where: Zoom

The Southern Regional Education Board announced this week the members of the newly formed SREB Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education. 

Chaired by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and co-chaired by Brad D. Smith, president of Marshall University in West Virginia and former Silicon Valley CEO, the commission consists of more than 60 policymakers, education leaders and business executives from each of SREB’s 16 states.   

For their efforts to improve instruction and raise student achievement, 29 schools were honored today at the annual SREB Making Schools Work Conference in Orlando, Florida.  

Gadsden Independent School District in New Mexico received the Southern Regional Education Board’s District Leadership Award for long-term commitment to continuous improvement at its schools, leading to improved achievement for students.  

ATLANTA – The Southern Regional Education Board conference on coaching for school leadership and instruction has sold out and is sure to offer media plenty of opportunities for interviews, video, and photos with educators and SREB staff.

The 2023 Coaching for Change conference, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Tues., May 16, and 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wed., May 17, will draw school coaches from all grade levels and content areas to the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, 800 Spring St., NW.

A new interactive tool that helps policymakers explore pay and benefits in the 16 states represented by the Southern Regional Education Board is now live at  SREB.org/TeacherCompensationDashboard. 

SREB has updated its comprehensive Teacher Compensation Dashboard with the region’s latest available data on salaries, health insurance, retirement, benefits and more.

Students attending historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions can take a wider variety of courses — and stay on track to graduate — through an innovative new partnership.

The Southern Regional Education Board today announced its HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Consortium, a collaboration designed to help HBCUs and MSIs enable students to stay on the path to on-time graduation.

ATLANTA — Teacher raises of up to 10% in recent years likely aren’t enough to help curb teacher shortages in many Southern states, as the cost of health insurance, inflation and the demands of teaching during the pandemic take a toll on the workforce.

A panel of education leaders at this week’s Southern Regional Education Board Making Schools Work Conference will discuss their states’ and school systems’ plans to address students’ unfinished learning.

SREB President Stephen Pruitt will moderate the online panel on Wednesday, July 7, at 1 p.m. ET. Panelists will discuss their plans to provide new levels of support for students this fall and how they’re re-envisioning education in the long term.

Teacher compensation needs broad changes to bring salaries in line with other professionals. And even while state revenues lag during the pandemic, states and schools can take immediate steps to support educators and keep teacher shortages from worsening.  

Those are among the findings of a new Southern Regional Education Board report, showing that states should continue to raise teacher pay and improve benefits and other types of support. 

The Southern Regional Education Board stands with black people and their allies around the South and across the nation in condemning racially motivated violence and racism in all its manifestations.

Ahmaud Arbery in south Georgia. Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. George Floyd in Minneapolis. The most recent names on a long list of black lives that mattered. That still matter.

This moment must be the impetus for change.

A new Higher Education Recovery Task Force will convene higher education leaders from the 16 Southern Regional Education Board states to address the challenges facing colleges, universities and students during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery.

State Senator Jack Hill of Georgia, a longtime Southern Regional Education Board officer and member, died on April 6, 2020.

“Senator Jack Hill was a gem, a true Southern gentleman and an unwavering statesman. For decades in Georgia, he was an instrumental education leader for education—collaborating, befriending and mentoring colleagues across the political spectrum. As the longtime chair of the Senate budget committee in Georgia, he insisted that the state’s students came first on more occasions than many people knew.

Available in All States

Georgia’s OER Online Courses, Grades 6 -12, and Free Training for Teachers on Remote Learning

Georgia Virtual’s OER (open educational resource) digital course content for middle grade and high school students and training courses for teachers are freely available to educators in all states thanks to the Georgia Department of Education and its Georgia Virtual Learning program.

K-12, college and university leaders are working across state lines to reduce barriers faced by students and to empower faculty with access to a wide range of instructional materials.

SREB bid a fond farewell this week to Cheryl Blanco. After more than a decade of service to the organization, she is looking forward to more family time while continuing to work on higher education issues.

The Southern Regional Education Board has launched a multi-year initiative to help states address growing concerns about dual enrollment, including cost and equity.

With an advisory panel of members from schools, universities, agencies and legislatures across the SREB states, the project will explore how dual enrollment can: 

Teachers and leaders from Bladen, Beaufort and Stanly county school districts in North Carolina convened in Raleigh this week to delve into systemic challenges that students, teachers and leaders face in rural communities. The goal: increase the number of middle grade and high school students who are on track for graduation, as measured by indicators such as state assessments, grade point average and passing grades in core classes.

Educators from Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, and schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, in were honored this week with the Southern Regional Education Board’s Readiness awards. These national awards recognize outstanding teachers and leaders offering SREB’s Readiness Courses, which help underprepared students succeed in high school and postsecondary programs without the need for remediation.

SREB states saved $8.3 million in technology purchases in fiscal year 2018. Schools, universities and agencies in each of the 16 SREB states are eligible for discounts through SREB collaboration with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

How are states’ new school accountability plans focusing on college and career readiness?

Many SREB states went above and beyond the basic requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which addresses readiness but does not require a comprehensive approach. An SREB analysis of state plans across the South identifies five ways states prioritize readiness for all students, statewide. They used the law’s flexibility to:

Twelve schools in Jefferson County, Alabama, are working together to improve 8th and 9th grade math through a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to the Southern Regional Education Board.

Three educators and a South Carolina high school were honored this week with Southern Regional Education Board awards. These recognize outstanding teaching and leadership with SREB Readiness Courses, which help underprepared students succeed in high school and postsecondary studies. The winners were honored at SREB’s Readiness Courses Institute in Orlando, Florida.

SARA collaboration among states expands online options for students, reduces costs for institutions

Puerto Rico was approved by the Southern Regional Education Board to join the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)

The Executive Committee of the Southern Regional Education Board has launched a search for the organization’s next president, to succeed Dave Spence, who will retire in summer 2018.

SREB has published interactive reports on school accountability plans in 16 states. With a focus on college and career readiness, state profiles distill complex information about each state’s plan to help policymakers  understand and compare accountability measures.

Dr. Dionne P. Stephens, an assistant professor of psychology at Florida International University in Miami, was presented one of two national Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards on Oct. 28 at the nation’s largest gathering of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students and faculty.

Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard, a professor at the Simmons School of Management in Boston, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award on Oct. 28 at the nation’s largest gathering of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students and faculty.

Dr. Roosevelt Johnson, deputy associate administrator of NASA, was presented one of three national Extra Mile Awards on Oct. 28 at the nation’s largest gathering of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students and faculty.

WHAT

The nation’s largest gathering of minority Ph.D. students, graduates, and college faculty members. Led by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board’s Doctoral Scholars Program, the conference brings together more than 900 Ph.D. students and graduates from minorities underrepresented in higher education.

How have schools managed the massive shift of aligning classroom teaching materials to their states’ college- and career-readiness standards?
 
New reports from the Southern Regional Education Board detail how states approached the challenge and recommend strategies to focus on as the work continues.

LAC officers are Representative Baker of Alabama and Senator Millar of Georgia 

Atlanta, Georgia  — June 30, 2017 — Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana will serve a second one-year term as chair of the Southern Regional Education Board. He was re-elected at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday.