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For Families, School Choice Doesn't Mean Easy Decisions

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One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

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Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

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Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut. In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It.

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Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

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Attend student government meetings. It’s inspired by Deep Springs College, a tiny, two-year, private school in California founded a century ago by banking and power-company magnate L.L. Nunn to emphasize manual labor and student self-governance as well as academics. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday.

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Should schools teach anyone who can get online – or no one at all?

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Jay Inslee ordered the closure of all public and private schools through at least late April. Nearly half of those students rely on schools for subsidized meals, leaving districts little time to make contingency plans to deliver food to families who needed it and prioritize child care for essential workers. “In Reykdal agreed.

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