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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. This coming fall, children who have a fifth birthday by June 2, 2025, can enroll. The plan is that the $2.7 It will be the largest universal prekindergarten program in the country.

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COLUMN: Is A/C the new ABC? As the country gets hotter, schools need upgrades

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Yorkwood Elementary in Baltimore, before it finally got air conditioning last year, was subject to closure by the district on any day the forecast hit 90 degrees by 10 a.m. Six years ago, 75 out of its 140 school buildings, including Yorkwood Elementary, lacked air conditioning.

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ESSER Funding Update

MIND Research Institute

With ESSER deadlines just around the corner, we'd like to provide a short guide on how to use those funds. ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. What is ESSER? To this day, the U.S.

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Embedding Equity Across a District and Community

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Parrott, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, explained why their Compass 2025 plan emphasizes equity throughout and how they keep equity front and center in their work. Adopt mediation as a restorative practice with specific language on how to use it. Engage those closest to the data in the conversations.

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Preparing Students for the Future: Lessons from STEMpath's Industry Collaborations

MindSpark

The World Economic Forum predicts that 85 million jobs in roles like data entry, accounting clerks, and secretaries are likely to be displaced from 2020 to 2025, 97 million new jobs are likely to be created, such as artificial intelligence specialists, data scientists, and information security analysts.

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. Related: How to build an engineer: Start young. In 2020, the C.E. In 2018, Congress passed a revamped version of the Carl D. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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