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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Her advocacy work has resulted in numerous awards, including ACSA Leadership Matters Legislative Award, White House ConnectED Superintendent Award, National “Women in Leadership” Award from the School Superintendent’s Association, and Commendation for Public School Leadership from the City of San Jose.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

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