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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. This article was modified and published by eSchool News.

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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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It’s a chilly Wednesday in April at the end of his last-ever quarterly meeting with the district’s parent advisory committee. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

based nonprofit focused on an intergenerational approach to policy. In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. . $4 billion — The amount the U.S. As it turns out, they had a great time.

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

The Hechinger Report

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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

The Hechinger Report

“For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year.

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

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In a state that sends one out of every eight black men to prison, the highest rate in the country , this neighborhood bears a disproportionate brunt of the mass incarceration policy, with more African-American men from here locked up than from any other zip code in Milwaukee County. Black schools for black children. The trade-off.

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