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

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It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools

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Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School should be allowed to exist as a public charter school in Oklahoma. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa had won approval for the charter school from the state charter board despite acknowledging that St.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

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Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. Starting in November, I tried to talk with school board members, the mayor and City Council members about the school district and Grimes, but they did not respond initially to my interview requests.

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OPINION: Some advice for the political left: Let’s redefine ‘public education’ to improve all schools

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That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “ The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” This blinkered view excludes 7,800 tax-funded and government-authorized charter schools that enroll 3.7 It also excludes another 4.7

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School choice may get its biggest moment yet

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’” Expect that reticence to be a thing of the past, Conway told the audience at an event last week devoted to promoting the benefits of school choice — from sweeping education savings accounts in the style of programs in West Virginia and Arizona to charter schools and microschools. Lead with solutions not problems.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

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They also required the BIA the BIE had not yet been established to work with tribes to create a system of schools of the highest quality. In its first report following a January 2024 visit, the monitor found the bureau in violation of 72 of those requirements. The closest private schools, in Kingman, are more than two hours away.

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