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When political attire disrupts the educational process, they are deemed inappropriate to wear in school, officials at Mifflin County School District explained.
A surge in worldwide demand for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.
Academic grades will be based on how well a student knows a subject, not on factors related to behavior.
“What these young people seem to recognize is that American democracy is in peril."
We need to encourage more Black and Brown teachers and teachers with disabilities into the field who are representative of our changing school demographics, and who are committed to the work of racial and disability justice.
In Colorado, Maryland and Pennsylvania, school administrators asked police to investigate separate incidents of toy guns, BB guns and a suspected rifle visible on video feeds from students’ homes.
We find overwhelming support for the idea that curricula should teach kids about the history of racism in the United States — 81 percent of parents either strongly agree, agree, or somewhat disagree.
In a heavily Asian-American district of Queens, two-thirds of families have chosen not to send their children back to school.
White children and those from wealthy families are more likely to be identified as "gifted" — despite decades of effort to make these programs more equal.
For district teachers, the percentage who felt very prepared for virtual learning was only up one point from March.
"We don't have any good strategies to systematically collect the COVID-19 school re-opening experience across a swath of the US to actually be able to study the different approaches that have and, in some cases, not worked so well."
To investigate what this reform may look like, we asked four experts how they would redesign K-12 education.
After an ugly battle with the teachers union over the opening of schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the union are duking it out again.
The study from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA analyzed discipline data from 2015-16 for almost every district in the nation.
In an effort to recruit more Black male teachers to the district, Dallas ISD has rolled out an initiative called the Adjunct Teacher Dallas Residency Program.
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