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Students with disabilities often left out of popular ‘dual-language’ programs

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This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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OPINION: The Biden administration has a real chance to boost early childhood education

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He invited Americans to imagine how a stronger “caregiving economy” could help enhance our nation’s security, promote family well-being and ensure child care providers have access to the “pay and dignity that they deserve.”. In his 2002 State of the Union Address, former President George W.

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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

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Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. The idea was met with nods by three of Chandler’s classmates as they sat discussing the future in the principal’s office of their 400-student elementary school, a red-brick structure in a suburb of Portland. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders.

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The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world

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Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Today’s information environment is tremendously exciting and there’s all kinds of access, but there are really some enormous challenges and pitfalls and hazards out there.” Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

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. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

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The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

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In the elementary school, art classes were cut. The incentive built into our school funding system is to stay as small as possible and keep your wealth as close to you as you can,” EdBuild’s Sibilia said. The district offered employees buyouts and didn’t fill vacancies. The middle school had to downsize its band program.

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