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JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? For schools, the student perspective is integral to a more complete picture of the system. In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Yet our schools, intentionally or not, often advance a sense of learned-helplessness.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, that charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools. Second, that public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school system. Are charter supporters suggesting that they are beyond accountability?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Public school students who are poor depend on schools for regular meals, for health/counseling services, for safe spaces. School and college administrators need to dig into relatively deep pockets to reallocate funds to address housing, food and other insecurities that school and campus closures create.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.

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MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. School districts sent out requests for proposals from online tutoring companies. Tutoring companies bid and the terms varied.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A. Watters, A.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. Schools “know that pretty much regardless of what they charge, students are going to be able to find the loans from the federal government.”.

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JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. But public schools don’t look like the public. John King, the first African American to be appointed as the U.S.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Department of Education has the power to accept or reject state plans.

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JUNE 26, 2018

To address this problem, grassroots parent-networks have been sprouting up to give parents the tools they need to make use of public data systems. based nonprofit that reviews the accessibility and usefulness of public school data, analyzed the language on so-called state report cards in 17 states in September 2017.

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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

There are many complicated factors ranging from a deep-seated American reluctance to let government into family life to a commitment to taxes that are lower than many of our European counterparts, which makes spending on social programs difficult to justify. On the one hand, we do spend billions each year on public preschool. …

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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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AUGUST 10, 2017

But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable. The public has a perception that tuition is rising because schools aren’t managing their money well, said Claire Suggs, a senior education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

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MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. The government rate at a local hotel was $89 a night.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. — In 2007, when U.S. Obama toured the old J.V.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2023

These options include microschools like Valles’ Ellemercito Academy, homeschooling coops like Engaged Detroit , “classical” options such as Haven School (focused on nature) in Colorado and Bridges Virtual Academy in Wisconsin, among others that spoke about their work. At Harvard, the state’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. The George W.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Once a Public Servant, Always a Public Servant Plenty of former educators hold public office today, including at the federal level, such as Sen. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. They’re already public servants,” Siegel-Stechler points out.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the election over, now is the time for legislators and leaders in states and the federal government to turn their attention back to education. The debate is raging on social media, school email chains, and even around the dinner table. Related: COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. just before Labor Day weekend.

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APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See the map below from NCES ( or make your own ), which shows that most states are trying for their children to achieve NAEP’s Basic level, not Proficient: Once again, in the words of Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, “ Proficient on NAEP does not mean grade level performance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

The ultimate goal of community schools is to ensure open pathways to academic success. Research from the RAND Corporation and the Learning Policy Institute and National Education Policy Center (LPI-NEPC) show that community schools are a good investment and an effective change strategy.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.” It failed on a 5-4 vote.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

Amy Laitinen, director of higher education, New America think tank. Amy Laitinen, director of higher education within the education policy program at the think tank New America, said she agrees the federal government should invest in job training programs, but that Pell isn’t the appropriate vehicle. “I

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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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