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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 15 or more school days of the academic year. Its contract with Long Beach Unified for the 2019-2020 school year is for $21,110.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. Bungard recalls a phone call from a parent who warned him that a fight brewing on social media between two groups of students could erupt on school grounds. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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