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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. She pointed out that the legislation was passed quickly and without a lot of accountability, leaving a lot of the details to be figured out later.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

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By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. For report cards, they convert those scores into letter grades to make it simple for parents, colleges and other post-secondary institutions to understand. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

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That’s the separate goal set out by the Lumina Foundation to achieve by 2025. Tennessee, for example, which famously made its community colleges free, is on target to have 55 percent of its residents possess certificates or degrees two years ahead of the 2025 deadline, outgoing Gov. Why haven’t other states had the same growth?”

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

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Related: A crisis call line run by Native youth, for Native youth The families also presented a secondary argument that the complex trauma of Native American children qualifies them for services and protections of the sort that are guaranteed for students with disabilities. public schools.

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Trump wants to shake up education. What that could mean for a charter school started by a GOP senator’s wife

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The conservative policy blueprint Project 2025 , some of whose architects have joined the Trump administration, urges lawmakers to send federal special education funding directly to school districts in the form of no-strings attached block grants, instead of to states first. We have to look at it, he said of the Project 2025 proposal.

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50 predictions about what 2025 will bring to edtech, innovation, and everything in between

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As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. We asked educators, edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2025. (Go However, in 2025 we will see a shift towards more integrated data ecosystems.

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