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This Week In Education Politics: Government Funding Countdown, Think Tanks And Advocates Consider Bullying, School Police

This Week In Education Politics: Government Funding Countdown, Think Tanks and Advocates Consider Bullying, School Police Every week, THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION POLITICS provides updates on the latest developments in education politics. You can receive a preview of the content by subscribing to Newsletter, and for real-time updates on federal education policy, you can follow …

Meet 2 Aspiring D.C. Public School Teachers In This College’s Inaugural Class Of ‘Ready-to-Go’ Post-COVID Educators

Meet 2 Aspiring D.C. Public School Teachers in This College’s Inaugural Class of ‘Ready-to-Go’ Post-COVID Educators For Chloe Ifill, a prospective teacher in Washington, D.C., witnessing the pandemic disrupt the education of her friends and family has been a sobering reminder that her future profession will be far from easy. As a college freshman at …

New Mexico Ranch Wants To Use Wildfire To Educate Kids, People With Disabilities

New Mexico Ranch Wants to Use Wildfire to Educate Kids, People With Disabilities Receive stories like these directly to your email. Subscribe to Newsletter. CLEVELAND, N.M. – Valuable lessons from the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon wildfire may soon be extended to individuals with disabilities and students at Collins Lake Ranch, a sanctuary that was protected by …

Illinois Governor Grants Reprieve Of State’s Popular Tax-Credit Scholarship Program, But Political Fight Puts Dent In Donations Even As Applications Surge

Illinois Governor Grants Reprieve of State’s Popular Tax-Credit Scholarship Program, but Political Fight Puts Dent in Donations Even as Applications Surge One of the largest tax-credit scholarship programs in the country, which assists low-income students in Illinois to attend private schools, managed to survive the state’s budget negotiations despite being threatened with early termination. However, …

‘Like A Gut Punch’: Advocates Reel As Manchin Compromise Abandons Pre-K

‘Like a Gut Punch’: Advocates Reel as Manchin Compromise Abandons Pre-K Receive stories like these directly in your email inbox by signing up for Newsletter. Updated on August 16. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act at the White House. This $740 billion package has taken almost a year to pass through …

Building A Smarter (and Cheaper) School Bus System: How A Boston-MIT Partnership Led To New Routes That Are 20% More Efficient And Saved The District $5 Million

Building a Smarter (and Cheaper) School Bus System: How a Boston-MIT Partnership Led to New Routes That Are 20% More Efficient and Saved the District $5 Million As of August 26, Boston Public Schools faced a problem in efficiently routing its school buses. The available solutions on the market were ineffective, prompting the district to …

Chicago Public Schools Routinely Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases And Violated Title IX. Experts Warn It’s No Outlier

Chicago Public Schools Routinely Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases and Violated Title IX. Experts Warn It’s No Outlier Author’s Note – A cautionary message to readers: This article includes explicit descriptions of sexual assault involving children. For a period of twenty years, the Chicago Public Schools lacked a designated Title IX coordinator. As a result, there …

EduClips: From Contaminants At Hawaii Schools To The Lone Star State’s ‘Broken’ Education Fund, School News You Missed This Week From America’s 15 Biggest Districts

EduClips: From Contaminants at Hawaii Schools to the Lone Star State’s ‘Broken’ Education Fund, School News You Missed This Week From America’s 15 Biggest Districts EduClips provides a compilation of the most significant education news from the fifteen largest school districts in the United States. These districts serve more than 4 million students in eight …