This incentive could be a game-changer for school districts suffering from teacher vacancies, such as Idaho schools, which have 16 classroom teacher job openings that have been listed for at least two years.
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The Minnesota Department of Education has identified 371 public schools that require intense support based on a mix of standardized test scores, attendance, English proficiency and graduation rates.
The negotiations began Wednesday afternoon as teachers were on the picket lines. Wednesday was also the first day back for the school year with CCS students learning virtually.
Homeless students are seeing unprecedented levels of funding support as districts work to stem one of the most troubling enrollment drops of the last few years.
The solution sounds simple: Teachers can spend more time on instruction when they get help connecting students with physicians, mental health care providers, food banks and other social services.
Transformation Schools have no attendance boundaries and most require that half the students admitted come from socioeconomically disadvantaged census blocks, half from more affluent areas.
