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CTE advocates want more funding as demand increases

eSchool News

If the legislature approves his budget proposal at the end of session, the total amount of state funding for CTE programs would be $58 million in fiscal year 2025. At the state board’s meeting in February, Brad Skertich, superintendent of Collinsville Community Unit School District 10, asked for more funding for CTE programs.

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Discovery Education Offers Educators New Resources Supporting Black History Month Observances 

eSchool News

The Coalition is an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations that has provided equitable access to STEM resources and career connections since its launch in 2019. The Coalition will continue to ignite student curiosity and influence a diverse future STEM workforce and reach 10 million teachers and students by 2025.

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Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that

eSchool News

Despite New York City’s 10-year plan to bring “computer science to all” students by 2025, equity remains a big issue, according to a recent report from New York University’s Research Alliance analyzing the program through the 2020-21 school year.

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5 Years Since Starbucks Offered to Help Baristas Attend College, How Many Have Graduated?

Edsurge

Yet in May, Humberstone crossed the commencement stage at ASU, becoming one of nearly 3,000 Starbucks employees who have earned bachelor’s degrees online through the company-university partnership program. “It Lessons Learned As of spring 2019, there were about 12,000 Starbucks employees enrolled in ASU classes.

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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

Edsurge

He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. If students don’t get a job that meets that income threshold, the monthly payments are deferred. We have a community need, and we need to figure out a way to meet that need. In February 2019, SDWP received a $1.2 million by summer 2019.

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‘Millions upon millions’ in employer-funded education benefits go unused

The Hechinger Report

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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