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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

Edsurge

We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Your mileage is going to vary.”

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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. And for good reason.

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The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Announces New Regional Directors

eSchool News

Rivera has served as president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Pennsylvania since October 1, 2020. About the new board members: Pedro Rivera, Director, Region 6 Northeast. Dr. Frank Rodriguez, Director, Region 7 Southeast. Dr. Rodriguez is Superintendent of the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. Because of the improvements, her first grader attends William Rainey Harper elementary on the city’s south side. Student outcomes improved.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

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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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

Our mission is really to educate our kiddos, and in order to do that we need them in school,” said Lori McKenna, Albany’s assistant superintendent for secondary instruction. Halfway through Martinez’s suspension, in March 2020, Brentwood, like all school districts in the nation, went virtual because of the pandemic.

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