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6 ways to tell a compelling and effective COVID recovery story

This story does not aim to offer financial advice on how to invest your COVID relief money. The goal here is to help you tell compelling stories about how you are spending it.

One way to ease the substitute teacher shortage with staff you already have

The lightbulb went on when the wife of a Fayette County Public Schools bus driver was overheard saying her husband had long aspired to become a substitute teacher.

10 COVID-relief spending plans reveal an area of growing urgency in schools

For district leaders looking for ideas and inspiration around CTE, here are some highlights from 10 states' plans to spend COVID relief funds and reengagement students.

Biden urges increased mental health supports for students

"Let's take on mental health," he said during the State of the Union address, "especially among our children, whose lives and education have been turned upside down."

Here are the 4 most popular areas for COVID relief spending in schools

Tackling unfinished learning with summer enrichment and closing equity gaps long-term are among K-12 leaders' top priorities as they invest American Rescue Plan funds.

End of an era? Almost all K-12 students now free to take off masks

Going to school without a mask is now—or will soon be—an option for students in almost every district in the U.S. as the last few major mask mandates are set to expire in the next week or so.

Principals detail 2 powerful solutions to surge in behavior problems

To cope with increasing behavioral issues two years into the pandemic, administrators are giving students more time and space during the school day to seek support and recharge.

One group of Americans is quickly losing confidence in K-12 principals

School principals, some of whom have been driven out of the profession by the ordeals of the pandemic, are now losing support from the Republican side of the political divide.

Innovation begins with education. It’s time we make it a priority

The EDUCATORS for America Act would provide much-needed funding to recruit and train educators, and help address the crisis of teacher shortages.

Still have ESSER funding questions? Here’s how it might be getting easier.

School leaders can no spend relief funds on needs arising from or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, or to emerge stronger post-pandemic.

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