Moves to private schools, homeschooling, and a reduction in the school-age population, are a few of the factors behind the pandemic-driven declines. But that's not the whole story.
At Mount Adams School District in central Washington, Superintendent Curt Guaglianone empowers his students, staff and parents to seek solutions from within to solve their own problems.
Standing at a lectern with a sign reading “Your Kids, Your Choice,” House Speaker Paul Renner introduced House Bill 1 to make vouchers available to all children in Florida who are the age to enter kindergarten through 12th grade — regardless of whether they ever attend a public school.
Hawaii put forward a plan Tuesday to make preschool available to all 3- and 4-year-olds by 2032, which if successful would put the state in a rarified group of states managing to provide pre-kindergarten education to most of its children.
Only about 93% of American kindergartners were vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease with the required two doses — the second year in a row that measles mumps and rubella (MMR) coverage fell below the 95% level needed to prevent the virus from spreading in the community.
"We are a district on the rise now," says Putnam County Schools Superintendent Rick Surrency, after taking graduation rates from 54.9% to 92.5%. "We just passed a bond referendum of $300 million to essentially rebuild every school in our district."
"The continued political infighting among certain board members demonstrates a misalignment in the vision for the children of this county," said the former student and lifelong employee of the district as to why she is walking away.
Roughly 1,200 first graders from a Brooklyn school district with the city’s highest proportion of Black students are seeing $1,000 added to their new college savings accounts, the result of donations from Bloomberg Philanthropies and a local foundation.
