Kayden Denny figured there probably hadn’t been a lot of past valedictorians at her school who looked like her. But that wasn’t quite the case: There actually had never been one like her before.
The move comes after the Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Boards of Education adopted or amended school policies requiring staff to notify parents when gender-nonconforming students wish to change their names or be called by new pronouns.
The budget will include spending $8.7 million on expanding leadership density and $19.7 million on implementing the NES program at 29 schools, where teachers will be paid an average of over $80,000 per year, in addition to a $10,000 stipend.
The agreement would be for three years, at a cost of $180,636 the first year and $141,021 for the following two school years. The first year would use federal stimulus dollars, but the second and third year spending would come from the district's general fund.
While many of these efforts proved to have little impact on their district's policies, they succeeded in sparking conversation and raising awareness for a historically underrepresented student group.
Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury explained in a Zoom call announcing the program that he wanted the focus on secondary math "because mathematics has taken a huge hit. We have single digits, for example, in our middle school proficiency rates."
Here is a key piece of teacher support data: The majority of school districts in the nation's biggest cities do not provide a starting salary of at least $60,000 or offer differentiated pay to teachers in hard-to-staff subject areas.
The gap between California charter and district schools in reading achievement has widened since the first report 14 years ago by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. There has been steady progress in math as well.
One Thursday morning in May, instead of sitting at a desk in her sixth grade classroom in the Oregon mountains, Khloe Warne sat at a table in her mother’s bakery, doing her schoolwork on a laptop and watching her favorite clips of anime.
Citing fears of possible slashes to Title II funds, these education leaders explain why districts need the most support possible to implement successful professional development in their schools.
