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

eSchool News

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. However, without a clear understanding of what’s working and what’s not, staff and resource cuts will be felt even more.

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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Whether it’s a free resource or an edtech product, there’s still some kind of criteria” that needs to be met. With these funds drying up, districts may face some difficult choices.

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Schools have struggled to add learning time after COVID–here’s how one district did it

eSchool News

A year ago, school would have been over around this time, and the students at Columbus East Elementary would be walking out the door. We do a lot of good things for our students, we have many, many resources, but our students need more,” said Aldo Calderin, the district’s superintendent. We’re using this as a classroom!”

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How to build an engineer: Start young

The Hechinger Report

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. — Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

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How to Introduce Engineering Principles Early to Help Inspire Interest in STEM

MindShift

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. At home, she likes to cook stir-fries and feu (Lao beef stew), and recently learned how to prepare a papaya salad, based on a recipe from her mother and grandmother. They know how to find a way to pay for it and make it the best college experience,” she says. “I I hate coming to school.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” His attorney says he will fight for the right to be paid the full value of his contract, which runs through 2026 – that’s over $40 million in salary and bonuses. ” There’s more on how schools are responding to their athletes’ decision to protest during the national anthem in the politics section above.