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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. The update is meant to expand access by spelling out specific technical standards government entities must follow. It will mean they have to act fast.

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The Idea of a Teacher Salary Minimum Is Gaining Steam in Congress. Where Has This Worked?

ED Surge

The LEAs are developing their plans, which are due in July 2026, says Rachel Hise, a member of the original Kirwan Commission and now executive director of the board that will implement the blueprint. So why a salary minimum? Money talks,” Hise says.

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

The Hechinger Report

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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