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More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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But there is no college here and no public school. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small. In rural school districts across the country, consolidation is a common cost-saving measure. In 1952, the U.S. Credit: Eric J. Credit: Eric J.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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JUNE 2, 2019

But over the past several years, the Department of Early Childhood in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) has been working to change the view of play-based learning as being available exclusively to the wealthy by bringing the philosophy of Reggio Emilia to its large, urban school system where over two-thirds of students are economically disadvantaged.

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MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. But there was a big problem.

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. But public schools don’t look like the public.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school In 2021-22 alone, the 17 school districts that provided data issued more than 1,600 long-term suspensions, an average of nine per school day. City School District of Albany meted out 280. That’s not what happens.”

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MAY 9, 2016

But academic researchers, speaking at a May conference for education journalists in Boston, said they don’t see evidence of a worsening racial separation across the country, as if whites and minorities who once learned in the same classrooms were now heading to different schoolhouses. It’s the U.S. It’s the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Stevens, for example, wants to know why advocates are so eager to believe that a public school system that hardly leads the international pack can be expected to offer high quality preschool programs. “I On the one hand, we do spend billions each year on public preschool. … Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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MARCH 8, 2017

At the same time, the economic recovery and low unemployment mean that fewer older students are returning to campus, Shapiro said. It’s all part of the “arms race of selectivity,” said José Luis Santos, vice president of higher education policy and practice at The Education Trust. Last year alone, it dropped 1.4

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low-income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The problem is particularly acute for those seeking a bachelor’s degree: Median federal loan debt for these Georgia students who withdrew has more than doubled over the last decade at most four-year schools, ranging from $5,500 at the University of North Georgia to more than $18,000 at Albany State University.

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MAY 11, 2016

Two years ago, Connecticut’s governor moved to recognize the work of public school paraprofessionals. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. Kaylan Connally is a policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at New America.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Across the country, public schools play a critical role in integrating them into American society and setting them up for long term success: By equipping them with English mastery. As public leaders seek to educate these students equitably, a lively debate has ensued over how to best instruct these students.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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MAY 30, 2018

When New Schools for New Orleans announced the competitive grant contest, 23 schools — about a quarter of all public schools in New Orleans — expressed interest by attending workshops on personalized learning. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. But the foundational knowledge, the skills to be able to learn and do well in school later are so important. Kindergarten matters a lot.”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

If it’s included in the reconciliation package, it could fund programs like Degrees When Due, the umbrella initiative organized by the Institute for Higher Education Policy that Bishop State was participating in to reenroll students. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030.

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MAY 16, 2022

Lindsay Page, an associate professor of education policy at Brown University, said argued for investing in college counselors so that they can provide better advice and support in the incredibly complex process of applying to college. Phillip Levine, economics professor, Wellesley College.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The Supreme Court unanimously declared that “ separate educational facilities are inherently unequal ,” but remedying the situation — desegregating our nation’s public schools — remains an aspiration more than six decades later.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

The reason I say Houston might be pointing in this direction is because the Houston school district itself is not struggling.” But at a packed meeting that December, Houston’s board narrowly voted down a proposal to have the district seek bids from outside entities to run the four schools under the 2017 law. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

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MARCH 14, 2021

Wyoming prides itself on being a red state, it just doesn’t realize which red it is,” said Richard Seder, an education policy consultant who has worked for the state. billion from federal coal-lease bonuses and federal mineral royalties to build more than 70 new schools, like the one in Shoshoni, and improve hundreds more.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

This proposal would increase the amounts available for public preschool, mental health counselors, special education services and teacher training, among other educator priorities. “We’re Still, Hess granted that it might be enough to shift power over schools towards the federal government.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Research also shows that schools with high poverty rates and large numbers of Black and Latino students have the greatest difficulties finding qualified substitutes to cover classes. Jack Raba, a recent Cheshire Public Schools graduate, works with 7th grader Cody Persico at Dodd Middle School. I don’t think so.”

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MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy. million in state and local taxes.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are public schools because they are funded through tax revenues.

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JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But France hasn’t erased the all the barriers that prevent lower-income families from accessing the best schools, even with huge amounts of government money poured into helping them get a leg up. The country still has a multi-tiered system, with low-income students frequently shut out of the most elite private and public schools.

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JULY 29, 2016

In her acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night, Hillary Clinton pledged to create new economic opportunities for all Americans by generating more and better jobs; expanding affordable childcare and preschool programs, and making higher education “debt-free for all.”. Convention coverage.

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MAY 18, 2017

Trump and his besieged education secretary Betsy DeVos would rob Peter, the public schools, to pay the Paul of charter schools and vouchers. At the same time, charter schools tend to undermine an education innovation that has proven to work: racial and economic integration. It’s also immoral.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to breaking up cliques, on a more systemic level, school districts have to push for integrated schools to counteract the social isolation of entire communities caused by education policy. All of this isolates low-income black and brown children in public schools.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Meredith: Specifically in the public systems, the percentage of black students at state flagship universities is lower than it was a decade ago. Meredith: Yes, and on fear of their coming minority status – real economic grievances become racialized. Tara: As far as I’ve seen, the Education Department has not commented on this.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K-12 education in a speech at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA) , a for-profit charter school in the largest city of battleground state of Ohio. Many private and faith-based schools would close without the public subsidy (welfare for the cynical).

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