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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. This coming fall, children who have a fifth birthday by June 2, 2025, can enroll. But do principals know how to support them? The plan is that the $2.7 That’s the hope.

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It’s budget season: How are you preparing for the fiscal cliff?

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The imminent end of ESSER funding has pushed school districts to a critical juncture, compelling them to confront budget deficits for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year before the “fiscal cliff” hits in 2025-2026. Consider how to strengthen educator recruitment and combat turnover. Where do you want to go?

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Smithsonian and Carolina Biological Announce New Version of Elementary Science Curriculum to Raise Bar in 3D Learning

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This elementary curriculum engages, inspires, and connects students firsthand to the world around them through a total of 24 student-driven modules. Students talk to each other to design a solution together, brainstorm how to test it, and plan how to make it better. The program includes 24 modules for grades K to 5.

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COLUMN: Is A/C the new ABC? As the country gets hotter, schools need upgrades

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Yorkwood Elementary in Baltimore, before it finally got air conditioning last year, was subject to closure by the district on any day the forecast hit 90 degrees by 10 a.m. Six years ago, 75 out of its 140 school buildings, including Yorkwood Elementary, lacked air conditioning.

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ESSER Funding Update

MIND Research Institute

With ESSER deadlines just around the corner, we'd like to provide a short guide on how to use those funds. ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. What is ESSER?

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Embedding Equity Across a District and Community

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Parrott, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, explained why their Compass 2025 plan emphasizes equity throughout and how they keep equity front and center in their work. Adopt mediation as a restorative practice with specific language on how to use it. Engage those closest to the data in the conversations.

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COLUMN: What does it look like when higher ed actually takes climate change seriously?

The Hechinger Report

The New York Climate Exchange, she said, won’t put shovels to earth until 2025. Credit: John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images One day, McInnis said, elementary school students will arrive by electric ferry for field trips, observing “living laboratories” that model “new ways of building, powering, treating coastlines.”

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