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JUNE 18, 2020

That’s why as a community organizer for Stand for Children and a product of Portland Public Schools myself, I welcomed the district’s decision earlier this month to discontinue the presence of SROs. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.

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MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. There was nothing like this.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Dixon has three daughters in the district.

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Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. Senate found that Monarch School’s students had poor reading and math skills when compared to public schools in the San Diego area, especially for elementary students.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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The first job I took in Chicago Public Schools in 2007 was at a school where the administration truly valued student and staff input. I remember sitting with students as we interviewed potential new teachers and the students saying things like, “This teacher doesn’t seem like they will be a good fit for our school family.”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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JULY 13, 2021

Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Signing up for her school’s environmental justice club and being connected to Sunrise, she said, “made me feel less alone.” This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. There are reasons to be optimistic.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Unlike public school districts, universities are not legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to identify students with disabilities or cover evaluation costs. I embarked on a mentally exhausting pursuit for academic accommodations that made me doubt my belonging and ability to succeed at my school.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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MAY 23, 2020

Across the country in California, worsening fires, floods and droughts have forced some educators to contemplate a school calendar marked by natural disasters. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Early in the summer of 2021, she started a job with a company working to build a new social studies curriculum for public schools and districts. “My

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. He liked getting to see friends every day.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But it was also about race and class.”

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

That fall he was briefly admitted to a psychiatric hospital after threatening to hurt himself—just after he started seventh grade at Sobesky Academy, a public school in a suburb of Denver. I hope when that’s done it will be a guidepost for schools so that they don’t just call whatever they do a threat assessment,” he said.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Jackson Public Schools lost a bus in May after an engine fire. Those options matter.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Lizzie Choi, chief program officer, Summit Public Schools.

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AUGUST 7, 2016

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The Youth Study Center has its own troubled history. Related: Formerly incarcerated, with a learning disability, she’s now a college grad.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

An analysis of Mississippi public school textbooks by the Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows that, for at least some grades, all of the state’s 148 school districts rely on textbooks published before the model standards appeared as part of their social studies material.

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JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. and in its schools. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When New York City officials revamped the way public schools were funded more than a decade ago, they emphasized one goal above the others: Making school spending more equitable in the nation’s largest system. Related: A low-income Brooklyn school where 100 percent of black male students graduate.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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JUNE 27, 2020

While the vast majority of Native American and Alaska Native students attend traditional public schools — the BIE educates less than 10 percent of Native students — BIE students score significantly lower than their public school counterparts on standardized exams, and overall post some of the lowest scores of any student group.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

DeVos “enthusiastically sent our taxpayer dollars to schools that explicitly and actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ students,” Eliza Byard, the executive director of the advocacy group GLSEN , said in a statement. Related: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us led with a startling figure: Most of the 120,000 high school students living in the country without legal permission who are graduating this year are ineligible for DACA. public schools were born. before they were 2 years old.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Related: ‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South. For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. schools becomes more pronounced in many places, and as hate crimes against minorities increase in schools and communities and the U.S. Fuller’s remedy?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If former President Donald Trump wins a second term and enacts his hardline immigration policies, what happened in Mississippi could become a much more common occurrence affecting millions of children and their schools. history, tapping every resource at his disposal from local police to the National Guard and the military.

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