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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

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Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

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For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

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Families who earn more than poverty-level wages but still live on a subsistence budget account for about 33 million American households, according to Laura Bruno, a spokesperson for United for ALICE , a research and advocacy organization focused on America’s working poor. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

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And when Lyon helped knock down the former Seward Middle School in 2005, he said the wooden beams were so rotted he could push a pencil through them. to purchase what would have cost $100 in 2001 , he said. These are things that cause a facilities manager to stay awake at night,” Lyon said. In October 2020, it took $209.82

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