News & Announcements

The latest news, announcements, and updates from Schoolz.

• Meet Mumu: a growing collection of early learning apps

  Mumu started as one app, Mumu Words. It is now a collection of early learning apps for young children: Mumu Words, Mumu Music and Mumu Drawing, with more on the way.

• Google to schools: turn off AI and you lose Google Search. NYC's mayor is pushing back.

  Google announced on Nov. 3 that it will switch off Google Search, Gemini, Gemini in Classroom and Gemini Notebook by default for K-12 student accounts. School administrators can turn them back on at any time. Google…

• Meet the real-life Miss Frizzle (and her bearded dragon)

  Picture day just got a lot more fun. Lisa Herring, a science teacher at McKinley Alternative School in Kokomo, Indiana, took her official school photo with her class's bearded dragon, Rango Kippling. Her niece…

• A "cafeteria fight" that turned into a birthday surprise for the principal

  When someone told Principal Bobby Davis that a fight had broken out in the cafeteria at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Georgia, he ran down the hall. He found students circled up with their phones out,…

• Parents say school communication decides whether they stay

  A school's communication isn't a nice extra. For many families it's a deciding factor.

• NYC moves to close two of its smallest schools as enrollment keeps falling

  NYC education officials have proposed closing two Harlem schools at the end of this school year, the first formal closure plans of 2026-27, Chalkbeat reports.

• Phone bans work, just not overnight, says the biggest study yet

  About two-thirds of U.S. states now limit phones in school. So do they work? The largest U.S. study so far says yes, eventually.

• Teachers are using AI more than ever. Their workweek isn't getting shorter.

  AI promised to give teachers their evenings back. A new survey says it's not that simple.

• What's new in the Schoolz CMS: calendar, page builder and more

  A month view and printable calendar, a tidier page builder with ready-made Parents and Students pages, iPhone photo uploads, and more from the last six weeks.