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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on the Indiana Resource Center for Autism website. An intervention agent must be an advocate and a resource for the family regarding local school districts, particularly when those districts are reluctant to embrace full inclusion and have few trained staff. The Problem. This support takes many forms.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus. She acknowledges the constant struggle for resources. Black schools for black children. The trade-off.

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