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Virginia Charity to Pay for Senior Prom Tickets at Fire-Ravaged High Schools
1. ACT 2. GNW 3. OKTA 4. GTLB 5. NVDA 6. ONON 7. ILMN 8. RPAY 9. NOVA 10. SPY Tweet Share E-mail 0 shares Actor Steve Carell announces $175,000 Alice's Kids Grant at Senior Assemblies , /PRNewswire/ -- Alice's Kids, a Virginia based non-profit and longtime supporter, Steve Carell , announced today via video that the charity will pay approximately $175,000 for Altadena seniors to attend their school prom.
Virginia Charity to Pay for Senior Prom Tickets at Fire-Ravaged High Schools
ALTADENA, Calif., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Alice's Kids, a Virginia based non-profit and longtime supporter, Steve Carell, announced today via video that the charity will pay approximately $175,000 for Altadena seniors to attend their school prom. The donation sends more than 800 students to an annual, right-of-passage dance that may have been overlooked after the Eaton Fire raged through the community.
Educator’s view: ‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules don’t have to silence teachers | LA School Report
Teachers play a critical role in developing students’ world views regarding marginalized communities. But educators are increasingly being silenced in their ability to deliver inclusive teaching. Since January 2021, 37 states have introduced measures to limit how race and discrimination can be taught in public school classrooms, and 14 have imposed laws or rules to enforce these restrictions.
ACLU Calls Out Cincinnati Schools, Police for ‘Over-Policing,’ Lack of Accountability Original
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. A new study by the ACLU of Ohio recommended that the Cincinnati Public Schools system address what they found as inequity and “exclusionary discipline disparities,” in part by breaking ties with the city’s police department.
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.
AFT Convention Seemed More Transparent Than NEA’s. But Looks Can Be Deceiving Original
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 American Federation of Teachers held its biennial convention in Boston last week. Unlike the NEA Representative Assembly, delegates met entirely in person and the union was more than happy to post its proposed resolutions and other documents online.
Uvalde Parents’ Anger and Quest for Answers Persist After Committee Faults School and Police in Mass Shooting
UVALDE — The loved ones of 21 people killed during Texas’ worst school shooting have spent weeks grieving their losses and begging officials for answers. But even after state officials publicly released the most comprehensive look yet at the Robb Elementary shooting and law enforcement’s painful delay in confronting the gunman, many relatives of the victims expressed anger and continued frustration Sunday.
DeSantis Calls on Conservative Moms at National Summit to Fight ‘Leftist’ Agenda
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. TAMPA — Claiming that Florida schools are undergoing “leftist indoctrination,” a “leftist agenda,” and “sexualization of children,” Gov. Ron DeSantis called on hundreds of members of “Moms For Liberty,” gathered in Tampa Friday, to fight.
Iowa Company Creates Virtual Reality Classrooms for 10 Universities
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. Students from 10 universities around the country can visit historical settings or perform surgery on cadavers, all from the comfort of their homes, after an Iowa company that specializes in virtual reality created digital campuses.
Arizona Ballot Initiative Would Give Undocumented HS Grads In-State College Tuition
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. A broad-based group of political, business and immigration leaders rallied last week to drum up support for Proposition 308, the ballot initiative that would guarantee in-state tuition for any Arizona high school graduate, regardless of citizenship status.
Florida’s New Civics Ed Training Igniting Questions of Religious Indoctrination
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. A non-profit organization is concerned that new civics-education training for Florida teachers may push Christian nationalism and endanger the separation of church and state.
School Budget Case Study: 2022 Pay Raises & Stipends, $10 Million 2023 Deficit?
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Trustees for El Paso’s three largest school districts last week approved the largest pay increases for teachers in recent years, an effort to retain staff and fill vacancies in an increasingly competitive market that comes with the warning of massive budget deficits down the road.
U.S. Faces ‘School Attendance and Graduation Crises’
A weekly roundup of headlines about how the pandemic is shaping schools and education policy, vetted by AEI Visiting Fellow John Bailey Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. This is our weekly briefing on the pandemic, vetted by John Bailey. Click here to see the full archive.
Ed Dept. Announces New Push to Expand Afterschool and Summer Programs
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. The U.S. Department of Education wants to make it easier for families to find high-quality summer and afterschool programs and for schools and local governments to use federal relief funds to pay for them.
$300 Million School Funding Item On Track For Idaho Ballot After 100K Signatures
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. Dozens of cheering Reclaim Idaho volunteers turned in more than 100,000 signatures for verification at the Idaho State Capitol on Wednesday as part of their effort to place a $300 million education funding ballot initiative on November’s ballot.
In Texas, School Counselors Grapple With Supporting Kids in Age of Mass Violence
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. All it took was the mere mention of Uvalde for Alma Rodriguez to start tearing up. The El Paso native was among dozens of school counselors who packed a dimly lit room at the Austin Convention Center on Monday to attend a training session on school shootings that was part of the American School Counselor Association’s annual conference.
Analysis: NEA Representative Assembly Sets Out to Solve the World’s Problems While Neglecting Its Own
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. Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears most Wednesdays; see the full archive. The National Education Association Representative Assembly opened in Chicago on July 3 with 5,071 delegates on hand — 3,858 in person and 1,213 online.
Exclusive: GreatSchools to Omit Pandemic School Testing Data From Its Rankings
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Parents and educators are asking: when is GreatSchools going to have new school data? The answer is two-fold. First, it’s important to know we are not going to give parents information that doesn’t help them, or only helps some of them. Second, we have been consistently adding new data, but its type and source may surprise you.
Educator’s View: ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Rules Don’t Have to Silence Teachers
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. Teachers play a critical role in developing students’ world views regarding marginalized communities. But educators are increasingly being silenced in their ability to deliver inclusive teaching.
How Blue States & Red States Use COVID Relief Funds Differently to Aid Schools
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. It has been a long time since so many education issues have been so politically divisive, with sharp debates between conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats about mask mandates, student sexual identity, and the role of race in the curriculum overtaking the routine work of educating students.
The Education Department’s R&D Arm Faces a Dire Budget Shortfall - Just as We Need It Most
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. On Tuesday May 24, a small item appeared in the Federal Register, offering an update on the Education Department’s research grant programs.
New Study: Black, Special Ed Students Punished at Greater Rate Through Pandemic
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Updated Despite a dramatic decline in suspensions as students moved to remote learning during the pandemic, Black children and those in special education were disciplined far more often than white students and those in general education, according to a recent New York University study.
Pandemic Babies Are Facing Speech & Social Development Delays. 5 Ways to Help
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Typically, about 1 in 6 children experience a developmental delay. But children born during the pandemic, a 2022 study has found, have nearly twice the risk of developmental delays in communication and social development compared to babies born prior to the pandemic. The reason, some researchers believe, is related to less interaction with other children, among other factors.
National Education Data: K-12 Enrollment More Racially Diverse Compared to a Decade Ago
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 percentage of white and Black students enrolled in public K-12 schools has gone down over the last 10 years, but the Hispanic share grew, according to new federal data, indicating a growing population of students of color in U.S. schools.
As Biden Signs Waiver Extension, Study Shows School Meals Lower Grocery Costs
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Updated June 27 On June 25, President Biden signed the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022. The law will extend some school meal waivers through the end of the 2022-23 school year. With a massive, pandemic-era expansion of free school meals scheduled to expire on June 30, Democrats and Republicans coalesced this week around a possible compromise that would extend the federal program through the summer.
Weaving SEL into curriculum doesn't have to be hard
As an educator and curriculum content creator, I’m always seeking to develop lessons that offer students opportunities to express complex emotions and share personal experiences. Inspiring self-expression and building a safe communal space begin with authentically exploring social-emotional learning (SEL) content. Students are always navigating developmentally appropriate mental health and emotional-regulation growth, but today’s students are also coping with the effects of the pandemic.
The Children Left Behind By 1 Million U.S. COVID Deaths
Nearly 250,000 youth have lost a parent or caregiver to the virus. But some parents say schools aren’t adequately reckoning with the fallout Updated, May 12 Just 10 years old at the time, it was as if Eva Torres’s world fell in when COVID claimed the life of her grandmother in April 2020. Abuela, as the girl called her, had lived just a block from the Bronx apartment she shared with her parents and two older brothers.
Moms for Liberty Member Supportive of Capitol Insurrection Appointed to Florida Board of Education by DeSantis
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. A Moms for Liberty member known for making social media posts supportive of the Capitol insurrection and being photographed on a boat flying the QAnon flag has been appointed to the Florida Board of Education. Gov. Ron DeSantis named Esther Byrd, a former Marine who lives in Neptune Beach, to the state board earlier this month.
Study: Multi-Year Gates Experiment to Improve Teacher Effectiveness Spent $575 Million, Didn’t Make an Impact
A major, long-term experiment in improving teacher performance funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation failed in its aims, according to a study released today by the RAND Corporation. The intermediate and long-term student outcomes in affected schools were not improved, and new measures of teacher effectiveness devised through the initiative rated almost all teachers highly, the authors found.
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