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07/17/2018
Eight story ideas and features for your back-to-school coverage
From The Local Media Association
Students will start going back to school in early August so now is a great time to begin planning your coverage with helpful information for parents, as well as considering good trend stories that help your audience understand what’s happening in education in your community.
Here are a few ideas:
1. Districts putting big money into data management
This story looks into how schools are using data to help with things like driving teaching in the classroom and staffing. However, finding data scientists and other high-tech people, hasn’t been easy. Look at how districts are utilizing data and for what and how recruiting for those roles has been going.
2. School shooting preparations
As school shootings continue to be a real concern for school districts, what is your district doing for the next school year? Medal detectors, school resource officers? Outline what has been done in the last year and what’s on the table this year. Consider looking at a nearby district that has done something innovative or different and have your own district comment on the options. Another neat way to approach this story based on what your district is doing is to lay out all of the options that could be done and have the district rank their priorities or even poll each of the school board members.
