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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

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Its most recent projections, released May 2018 , show that student enrollment should increase 3 percent between 2015 and 2027. Districts may also have to contend with excess real estate capacity after years of building new schools to educate a growing population and to house new charter schools. Related: Merger madness?

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

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Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. Trade Industry. Black-Owned Firms. Percentage Black-Owned. Underrepresentation Based on Education. million to 17.3

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What have Mississippi legislators proposed for education in the first few days of the legislative session?

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2027 , also proposed by Sen. Blackwell, would provide state funding to reimburse districts for the cost of employing school resource officers. School board members would be required to have at minimum an associate degree from an accredited junior or community college or a minimum of 60 credit hours and a 2.0

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

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Woodworth built his research career documenting the benefits of charter schools and is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. The data belongs to the people, Woodworth said. It doesn’t belong to the president. It belongs to the public. It is a public asset.

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