Following an NBC News report, state agencies are helping foster youths navigate educational obstacles, and the state Board of Education called for new legislation.
Democrats who had objected to the changes and complained that majority Republicans were rushing the legislation through gave a burst of applause after the vote count was announced around 2:30 a.m.
States will be stuck with "F's" and other poor financial grades if they rely on ESSER relief to solve long-standing problems of unfairness, a new education spending analysis warns.
The American Teacher Act would incentivize states to raise their minimum teacher salaries to $60,000 for public K-12 schools through a grant program at the Department of Education. The legislation would also mandate yearly increases congruent to inflation.
In an interview with GBH News, Superintendent Mary Skipper said she will make broad systemic fixes and correct the way Black and brown students are channeled into special education classrooms at higher rates than their white peers.
80% of the superintendents surveyed rated their boards as "highly effective" or "effective," but also cited politically driven parents as the most difficult group to work with.
Parents who try to withdraw their children from yeshivas over a lack of secular education often cannot do so, hampered by social pressure and a rabbinical court system.
