ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Even by Houston ISD’s own calculations, the school is expected to earn a B rating when 2023 and 2024 school “report cards” are released. A lawsuit by Texas school districts over the change has halted the release of 2023 ratings for now, and a second lawsuit is similarly blocking the state from releasing 2024 ratings.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. The rise in mental health needs among students following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the U.S. Pierrottet offers. “It

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a memo released in mid-June to school district superintendents, Vermont Agencies of Education and Human Services indicate that local departments of education can waive the insurance requirement for home-based pre-K programs that are unable or cannot afford to secure the policy recommended by VSBIT.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history, European history, human geography, AP government. I came to Clemson University and the teacher education program during COVID-19.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

These stories offer analysis and insight as well as a glimpse into the experiences of real families and educators whose lives and livelihoods stand to suffer or benefit. In 2024, we plan to continue elevating the programs, projects, people and policies aimed at creating a stronger, more sustainable early childhood system in this country.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

In short, SB 234 prohibits local governments from requiring small or large family child care programs to get a zoning permit or business license. Landlords are prohibited from retaliating against tenants who wish to become child care providers, with rent increases or other actions. The law will go into effect on Jan.

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ED Surge

JULY 16, 2024

Department of Education did itself no favors when its chaotic rollout of the new FAFSA system during the 2023-2024 school year hit technical snags that caused some students to miss out on money.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

percent turnover rate in 2023 to 2024 with a $52,002 base teacher salary. But in the years since, Fiedler says, it hasn’t had the turnover rate one would expect for one of the lowest-paying districts in the area. Data that Fiedler sent to EdSurge suggests that 27J had a 13.61

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Perhaps news has spread that in fall 2024, the starting salary for teachers at Houston ISD will be $64,000. After the board approved the new salary schedule last summer, Houston ISD saw fewer teacher departures than in any of the prior five years. Taking It to the National Level Houston ISD has seen this salary minimum realized.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

So too will a second, much smaller pot of $15 billion in federal pandemic money that will run out at the end of September 2024. But providers will close, said Lauren Hogan, the managing director of policy and professional advancement at the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

Apartment and condo buildings, as well as many townhouses and duplexes, are not eligible because of rules governing outdoor play space and fencing. Single-family homes are generally more expensive to rent, and a lot of people who work in — or want to work in — the early care and education sector are low-income, Johnson explains.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The organization gets its funding primarily through nonprofit and government grants, with some money collected via membership fees. One issue that districts will have to contend with is how to keep mental health services in place once emergency federal funding — distributed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — expires in September 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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 ESSR funds expire in 2024.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The 2024 results of the nations report card, released last week by the National Center for Education Statistics, show that for the third time in a row fourth and eighth grade reading scores have dropped on the biannual assessment. In Zoom class, youre just a little blot on the screen. Students are not where we need or want them to be.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Recognizing the disaster that lay ahead if stabilization grants expired without an adequate replacement, leaders in Massachusetts decided to continue funding operational grants for early care and education programs even after American Rescue Plan dollars dried up. This idea of bedrock funding for the field … that was a dream.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The county has poured resources into making sure everyone in the community set in the Tennessee foothills has enough technology to get online. Siefer’s nonprofit lists Chattanooga as a “ trailblazer ,” one of the cities where the local government dedicates staff and money to advancing — and collects data about — digital equity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Instead, in April, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced it would extend the enrollment-based subsidy reimbursements through August of 2024. “If The state had planned to revert back to attendance-based reimbursements in September, at the same time that the child care stabilization grants were set to expire.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2022

And with one-time COVID relief dollars set to expire in 2024 currently sustaining the industry, the pandemic’s most significant learning loss is poised to become the early childhood sector itself, threatening the workforce participation of millions of American parents, the productivity of their employers and state economies writ large.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Going into the 2024 election, child care is on the minds of parents, particularly mothers. The first was the model for Biden’s child care proposal in his Build Back Better package, expected to cost the federal government about $400 billion, and the second about $700 billion , both over a 10-year-period. Similarly, Rep.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Our two major political parties have gone back and forth about the size of government. And to me this is a slam dunk case for how we shrink the size of government.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The data comes from the Trevor Project's 2024 national survey on mental health, gathered from more than 28,500 LGBTQ+ young people in the United States. The data comes from the groups 2024 national survey of mental health among more than 28,500 LGBTQ+ young people in the United States.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Censorship is an issue that has drawn attention from the 2024 presidential candidates. Film director Ava DuVernay is the 2024 honorary chair of the day, while activist Julia Garnett, who fought book bans in Tennessee, is the youth honorary chair. The week ends Saturday with Let Freedom Read Day to urge communities to fight censorship.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

I think states have now realized, ‘Oh, the federal government temporarily and now is considering again another increase in these tax credits — child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit]. To Chang, child care as an employee benefit could resemble health insurance — or become even more important.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I wrote about these digital divides in an article about the 2024 National Education Technology Plan. How Americans feel about hot-button education issues About 60 percent of people support school vouchers, according to a new poll from news outlet The 19th and SurveyMonkey.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

That order led to most states introducing legislation that used similar language to restrict discussions and reading materials about race or sex in schools and other government-funded institutions. The state also used the budget provision to justify dropping AP African American Studies for high school students during the 2024-25 school year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2024, gun violence incidents on campuses dropped to 331 from 349 the prior year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. Without being able to rely on government intervention or cooperation, gun prevention advocates are coming up with their own solutions to address youth gun violence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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