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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

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Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 percent statewide dropout rate, according to 2020-21 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education data, and special needs students fare particularly well at voc-tech schools. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. He was no longer enrolled, they said. Tameka is her middle name.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. He tries to spark that same passion in students, but it’s been challenging.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We feel like we’re in a better place as a school district than we were in October of 2020.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

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Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. asked Rubio, “Text me the dates you were out.”.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

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Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. Kandis, Cooper and Rob Seaver stand for a portrait at their apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Dec.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

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On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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