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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. And for good reason. So let’s imagine. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week?

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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

Edsurge

We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Your mileage is going to vary.”

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The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Announces New Regional Directors

eSchool News

Rivera has served as president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Pennsylvania since October 1, 2020. About the new board members: Pedro Rivera, Director, Region 6 Northeast. Dr. Frank Rodriguez, Director, Region 7 Southeast. Dr. Rodriguez is Superintendent of the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina.

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. VANCOUVER, Wash. Public schools identified 1.1

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Issues we used to consider secondary or tertiary (religion, language, ethnicity) have become primary. 2020 = 125,000; 2040 = 185,000+. 2020 = 75,000; 2040 = 110,000+. 2020 = 11,000; 2040 = 13,000. African refugees are pouring into our state – usually they are secondary migrants (first stop was another U.S.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.