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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

ZinnEdProject pic.twitter.com/p6ZD5LtD8y — SURJ KC (@SURJ_KC) June 11, 2024 The event began in the auditorium of the KCKPL Main Library where participants learned from local Palestinian-American organizers. Maryland Annapolis A dynamic event was hosted by Key School, featuring a diverse range of activities.

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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. public schools. That same year, the late Arizona Sen.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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What might happen if the Education Department were closed?

The Hechinger Report

For fiscal 2024, the department oversaw about $14 billion in funding for school-aged children, with smaller pots of money going to infants, toddlers, and other special education-related programs. At that time, it was administered by the department of Health, Education and Welfare (now known as the Health and Human Services department).

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