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What Does It Mean to Have a ‘National’ Teacher Shortage?

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Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. For 13 states, their search yielded no data about teacher vacancies. Source: Kansas State University.

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School districts are going into debt to keep up with technology

The Hechinger Report

Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure. Designed exclusively for technology purchases, these bonds have much shorter payment terms. We need a coherent governing structure and we don’t have that.”.

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As Federal Dollars Vanish, Districts Weigh Which Edtech Tools to Drop

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The Come Down The pandemic’s forced switch to remote instruction unlocked federal funding for K-12 schools, as the government made a temporary $190 billion jab available in the hopes that it would inoculate against the effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. But how that’s impacting these districts seems to vary.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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Can After-School Programs Help Children Recover From the Pandemic?

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In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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‘The Truth Is, I Love the Work’

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The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. Starting in 2014, when her first grandchild was born, she began caring for him and, through the years, cared for all four of her grandchildren.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.