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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

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The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The proportion of chronically absent students doubled to about half of the entire student body from 2020 to 2022. Student outcomes improved.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Understanding ESSER, ESF-REM, and GEER. Arati has an M.Ed.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

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Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

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They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. Child Care Aware, a national child care advocacy group, then took the issue on, releasing an analysis of state rules and regulations around safety every year from 2007 to 2013.

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Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

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Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. She donated $95,000 to the state Republican candidate fund between 2017 and 2020, according to public records kept by the Ohio secretary of state.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

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In December 2020, the high school gym in Homer, about 170 miles southwest of Seward, was closed for weeks, “because it was raining in the building,” Lyon said. More than half the country’s public school districts need to update or replace multiple building systems or features, according to a 2020 estimate by the U.S.

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