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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Iowa overall v.

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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

The Hechinger Report

Judged by annual spending in public dollars, America’s K-12 school facilities are the second largest infrastructure expense in the country — only roads, rail lines and other transportation systems cost more — and repairing or improving them may offer a clear path to broad reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It would also cut costs.

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