"At a time where we need an education experience to be anything but average, we continue to see students give their schools neutral scores on the metrics that matter most," pollster says
"The churn that's happening in classrooms is now affecting everyone. It's affecting the ability of teachers to teach, teachers to set classroom norms, and kids to learn," Attendance Works Executive Director Hedy Chang says on this week's podcast.
In Bethel School District, like many others, the demand for after-school programs has surged. Here's how we scaled up while connecting to key goals and priorities.
Now that parents no longer need to fill out applications to get their children access to free meals, officials have lost an important source of data on their district's low-income households—information traditionally used for funding.
Superintendent Kirt Hartzler makes a bold claim about Union Public Schools that would fill any leader with pride or envy: "We truly are a high-poverty yet high-performing school district."
Meals were free to every student in every school from 2020 to 2022 because of the pandemic. But when schools began charging again in 2022-23, many families didn’t know they would have to pay for meals or didn’t file the required forms for free and reduced price meals.
