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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. Credit: Bianca Vázquez Toness/Associated Press “This was about balancing the number of students in schools,” says Tiffany Fick, director of school quality and advocacy for Equity in Education, a policy organization in Atlanta. Communities such as St.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. Louis, in the spring of 2022. She enrolled her boys in the local schools that April. Louis area home on June 10, 2023.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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