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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Koehler scrambled to get the boy assessed and recategorized. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. We’re preparing kids for these jobs of tomorrow, but we really don’t even know what they are,” said Amy McLeod, the school’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. Twenty-one percent of Lowell residents live in poverty; the average rate in small metro areas nationwide is 17 percent.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

Walz also was behind Minnesota’s child tax credit increase in 2023, and successfully pushed forward a statewide paid family and medical leave law that takes effect in 2026. — But the Biden administration has sought to require accreditors to create minimum standards on student outcomes such as graduation rates and licensure-exam pass rates.

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