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Enrollment Drops, Staff Shortages Cause Budget Whiplash for Top School Districts Original
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Nearly 40% of the nation’s largest school districts are facing staff reductions and school closures due to lost enrollment, according to a review of 100 large and urban districts by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
‘I Was the Lucky One’: School Shooting Survivor Shares Story at L.A. March
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Dominic Blackwell was one of the first friends Mia Tretta made when she moved to the Santa Clarita Valley, near Los Angeles, in 2018. “He had this infectious laugh,” she told The 74. The two were walking through the quad at Saugus High School on the morning of Nov. 14, 2019 — Tretta remembers being nervous about a Spanish test — when she heard a bang.
New Mexico’s Education Reform Plan Presented to Tribal Leaders
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. The plan is still a draft, but New Mexico leaders say it’s one step closer to meeting a judge’s order to reform public education across the state. But advocates want a greater balance than the back-and-forth, top-down approach they say goes in creating the education plan.
3 Months In, LA’s Carvalho Earns High Marks, But Tough Tests Lie Ahead
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. When Los Angeles Unified announced last December that Alberto Carvalho would be its next superintendent, Ana Ponce was skeptical. The executive director of Great Public Schools Now, an advocacy organization, hoped the district would pick someone from the community, not an outsider from 2,700 miles away. But so far, the charismatic educator who led Miami-Dade for 14 years has won her over.
How 100 Large and Urban Districts Are (and Aren’t) Engaging Stakeholders
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. More than one out of three large districts may not be following a federal law requiring school systems to collect local feedback on how to spend their pandemic relief money, according to a new review by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Analysis: How 100 Large Urban Districts Are Wrapping Family & Community Input into Plans for Spending Federal Emergency School Relief Funds
Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. As school districts prepare for the 2021-22 school year, federal dollars from the Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) present the potential for helping students and communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and for making major, lasting improvements.
Analysis: What does ‘attendance’ mean for remote learners in a pandemic? How 106 districts are dealing with absenteeism, student engagement & grades | LA School Report
As districts close out their first academic quarter, educators are reporting increased absenteeism rates for both remote learners (double the rates they saw before the pandemic) and in-person learners. About a third of educators say unexcused absences will impact student grades and, potentially, prevent some kids from passing to the next grade level.
Analysis: What Does ‘Attendance’ Mean for Remote Learners in a Pandemic? How 106 Districts Are Dealing With Absenteeism, Student Engagement & Grades
As districts close out their first academic quarter, educators are reporting increased absenteeism rates for both remote learners (double the rates they saw before the pandemic) and in-person learners. About a third of educators say unexcused absences will impact student grades and, potentially, prevent some kids from passing to the next grade level.
Opinion: Rather Than Arming Teachers With Guns, Let’s Arm Them With the Supports They Need
I never thought I would have to write this sentence: Asking our educators to carry guns in the classroom is a senseless idea. Teachers are supposed to play a critical role in shaping the development of our nation’s children and teens. Though undervalued, they always have been tasked with creating supportive learning environments that enable their students to thrive. Yet how are they supposed to do this when teaching is now ranked as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States?
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