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K-12 Funding in the American Rescue Plan

MIND Research Institute

President Biden has signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 , providing more funding relief for K-12 education than the previous CARES and CRRSA Acts combined. And LEAs cannot reduce funding or staffing per student in schools with high rates of students living in poverty by more than district-wide funding or staffing reductions.

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PROOF POINTS: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Learning to read well in elementary school matters. The results emerged from an analysis of fall 2022 test scores of seven million elementary and middle school children across the nation, in which the reading abilities of third graders remained far behind what children used to be able to do in third grade before the pandemic.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. At Stride Inc.,

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. Retrieved June 13, 2021, from [link].

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The school counselor pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it?

The Hechinger Report

Rates of anxiety and depression among youth and adolescents have reached record highs across the country, with the surgeon general calling kids’ declining mental health the “ defining public health crisis of our time.” There’s a lot of trauma, and there are only so many hours in a day to meet with kids,” Bennett said. Since December, the U.S.

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State Spotlight: Texas’ Student-Centered Response to COVID-19

ExcelinEd

How to re-engineer the school experience so students reach high academic outcomes, with the same or better proficiency in 2021 as they did pre-COVID. . “We A llow s elementary schools the flexibility to add additional instructional days (up to 210 days); . Baseline Conditions in Texas Prior to COVID-19 . platform. .