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How one Mississippi district made integration work

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That’s because all the kids in this diverse suburb just northwest of Jackson attend the same school for kindergarten and first grade, then move on to the second- and third-grade school and continue together on through high school. There is no poor school or wealthy school … we are all together from the very beginning.”.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

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Durst was an unusual choice given his lack of school experience and the IFF’s hostility to public education. (In In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”)

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

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The black community expressed dismay that all symbols of black accomplishment — plaques, citations, trophies, and class pictures — were removed and tossed aside when the all-black Coleman High School was converted into an integrated middle school. Story continues below video. People say it can’t be done in the Delta.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

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PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The Sharswood-Blumberg neighborhood surrounding Vaux, by then a high school, had begun to buckle from poverty, drugs and gun violence.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

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The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits. Students complain of being kept on campus when they could be attending neighborhood schools. And government oversight is lacking. stayed at Keystone, she would likely attend its charter school.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

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When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. From my freshman year till my senior year of high school I lost 13 friends to suicide,” Rep.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

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Douglass High School , remembers his uncles pushing the family to safety in a boat. Class of 2020 graduate Trevianne Turner, 18, feels a certain tug inside when she looks at the Katrina blight left near her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. HIGH SCHOOL.