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OCTOBER 9, 2024

As of May 2024, 31 percent of students in the program identified as Black, 39 percent as Hispanic/Latino, 11 percent as Asian and 7 percent as white, according to program data. A group of rising eighth graders from Newton Public Schools learn how to use different engineering applications at MathWorks headquarters in Natick, Mass.

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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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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. I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill at Summer 2024 MAHG. Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. She advises Mountain View’s Model UN team; students on the team take her AP Comparative Government class.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

public schools required vast support, federal and state government officials appropriated historic levels of help via elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. The federal funding that is set to expire in 2024 cannot wipe away the adverse learning impacts of the pandemic.

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MAY 28, 2024

public school teachers with the same credentials. Because of the unique nature of the program, Greenberg says that there’s been deep interest from the federal government, states, cities, counties, philanthropists and advocates — all of whom are trying to keep the child care sector afloat.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

State trust lands, on and off Indian reservations, make up millions of acres across the Western United States and generate revenue for public schools, universities, jails, hospitals and other public institutions by leasing them for oil and gas extraction, grazing, rights of way, timber, and more. Sign up for our newsletter here.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Frederica Wilson, a former teacher, would establish a minimum salary of $60,000 for every public school teacher in the country. Perhaps news has spread that in fall 2024, the starting salary for teachers at Houston ISD will be $64,000. Taking It to the National Level Houston ISD has seen this salary minimum realized.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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JUNE 6, 2024

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Michael Rady , senior education programs manager, GLSEN We’re seeing record numbers of bills being introduced — 500 so far in 2024 — targeting LGBTQ+ people.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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JULY 5, 2017

The state plans to expand the program to all Mississippi public schools by 2024. Seventeen states have submitted ESSA plans to the federal government so far; and this week a peer review of the plans was released.

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JULY 16, 2024

In Zambia, education in Catholic versus secular primary schools decreases support for progressive gender attitudes. Across Latin America, citizens who attend private versus public schools have less support for the social contract. public comments and voter turnout) and local political institutions (e.g.,

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Pedagogy and Formation

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Introduction This post is based on my Day 2 Keynote address to the 'Australian National Leaders' Summit Christian Schools Conference' (19-22 Aug 2024). The greatest spiritual influence on our students’ should be parents, youth leaders, School Chaplains and so on.

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MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Reading By the Numbers Average reading scores dropped by two points for both fourth and eighth graders in 2024, standing at 215 and 258 respectively. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Through a state program called Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3), which was funded at $475 million for fiscal year 2024 and which the governor has recommended be renewed at the same level for fiscal year 2025, nearly 93 percent of licensed providers in the state are receiving monthly stipends. I feel hopeful.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. But residents suddenly sorted into “for” and “against” factions.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s one of dozens of evidence-based programs that could be implemented at more public schools across the country if the completion money comes through from Congress. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030. Without funding, the work at places like Bishop State can only go so far.

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JUNE 27, 2021

Related: Coronavirus offers a test of how schools could prepare for climate change. He’s likely not the only person in charge of public school facilities who is having trouble sleeping. Government Accountability Office. estimates that about 36,000 schools nationwide need to update or replace their HVAC systems.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

It might be tempting to write off this particular phenomenon as a one-time reaction to the onset of a historic global public health crisis. And there may be some wisdom to this line of thinking, as recent data suggests that public school pre-K and kindergarten enrollment are both demonstrating signs of a rebound.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

Copyright © 2024 by Benjamin Herold. So part of her parenting role was studying the Gwinnett County Public Schools’ discipline policies. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Together, the pair found nameless satisfaction in tormenting their middle-aged white teacher.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco opened its gymnasium to homeless students and their families as part of its Stay Over Program in 2022. It is one example of the many community services that a majority of public schools are now providing, according to a federal survey.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2024

This is an adapted excerpt from “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education” by Laura Pappano. Copyright 2024. Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.”

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MAY 27, 2024

Related: ‘They just tried to scare us’: How anti-abortion centers teach sex ed in public schools Lumen contracts with the Shades of Motherhood Network , a Spokane-based nonprofit founded to support Black mothers, to run the parenting classes.

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Sapiens

MARCH 7, 2024

Three months later, in January 2024, a new idea became public. Because Gaza was under Egyptian administration until Israel occupied the territory in 1967, the Jordanian government has treated these individuals as Arab foreign residents in the country. Her daughter, Diala, did well in primary and secondary school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In a city where child care can easily consume more than half of that, Funes was optimistic that she would qualify for a government-funded subsidy to help her afford the cost. The federal government requires that subsidies go to families that make no more than 85 percent of their states median income. billion investment in child care.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Findings from a recent survey by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth, show transgender, gay and nonbinary teens have worse mental health than their peersand school policies targeting them contribute to their mental health struggles. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2025

The data collection was nearly finished and ready to be released to the public, but in February, Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated the contract for this data collection, which is part of the National Household Education Survey, along with 88 other education contracts. Together, more than 5 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It sounds absurd, given that President-elect Trump just ran the most divisive campaign in modern history and will likely govern as if he won in a landslide. That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “ million children across 44 states and Washington, D.C. It also excludes another 4.7

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2025

CLEVELAND In a public school cafeteria here, 6- and 7-year olds were taking turns sketching their ideas for a building made of toothpicks and gummy bears. Last year, Horizon and other nonprofit after-school providers reached more than 7,000 students in Cleveland public schools, buoyed by $17 million in pandemic recovery aid.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Colorados Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has pressured state agencies to help local governments survive economic losses from the transition to clean energy, largely by trying to lure new and potentially green industries to these communities. We don’t all think about the source of our school funding every day.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida — responsible for most of them, according to preliminary findings released by PEN America on Monday. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content.

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APRIL 27, 2024

It was a statement of values: The government was saying that this was the nation’s standard for child care, no matter where a program was located. At the root of this snarl is the reality that while the federal government made the rule, 50 different states have to carry it out. The racial disparity is undeniable, Brown said. “We

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