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OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them

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From 2005 to 2010, I was part of an official evaluation of a voucher plan called the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, or MPCP , in Wisconsin. In addition to funding research, the Bradley Foundation has given at least $31 million to political advocacy on behalf of vouchers. Here’s how I know. Twitter: @joshcowenMSU.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. Tackling Teacher Shortages.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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NACA was born out of an urgent need to reimagine education for Indigenous youth: In 2005, three quarters of Native American students graduated on time in the Albuquerque school district, compared to 87 percent of all students, according to state data. Related: 3 Native American women head to college in the pandemic.

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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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Beginning in 2016, King, an entomologist, sat on a Hawaii child care working group in the legislature and advocated for about a dozen regulation bills. Cynthia King reads to her son Dexter Muir at their home in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2016. The last year it reported was 2016, making it the only state with a reporting gap that wide.

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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

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Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Women represented 97 percent of the workers in center-based early childhood programs, which include school-based care, Head Start programs, and child care centers. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

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Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. That was a real civics lesson she will never forget.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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The president and founder of Bernstein Strategy Group, Jon Bernstein has been working on education, education technology and telecommunications issues since 1995 and running his own government relations firm since 2005. Jon received his JD from the Northwestern University School of Law and his BA from Colgate University.

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