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Elementary Teacher Defeats West Virginia's State Senate President in Primary

After a couple years of clashes with teachers in the state, West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael was ousted in Tuesday's Republican primary election by a teacher.




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WVa education group seeks virtual learning until year's end




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As Demand for Food Grows Under Coronavirus, Schools Step Up

Districts are reconfiguring services, offering hazard pay, and partnering with food banks to keep up with a growing, unprecedented demand for food services during the school shutdown.




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How Layoffs Upend Life for Educators, Students, and Districts

Pandemic-inflicted budget cuts have cost thousands of educators their jobs. Here’s how that’s playing out in five districts around the country.




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Knowing How Students and Teachers Use Tech Is Vital

Data on the usage of educational technology tools can provide districts with a helpful road map for improving student engagement under remote, in-person, or hybrid learning conditions. See how school districts are using such data to make smart, strategic decisions.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Michigan

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A collection of stories from the week that you may have missed.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A collection of articles from this week that you may have missed.




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DeVos Appoints New Leader of African-American Education Initiative

Terris Todd, a former teacher and school administrator in the Battle Creek, Mich., schools, is the ethnic vice chair of the Michigan Republican Party.




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Hospital leaders sound alarms; Detroit to keep students home




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Michigan halts classes, indoor dining as coronavirus surges




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Survey: Michigan educators feel unsafe returning to school




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Whitmer may extend partial shutdown of schools, businesses




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GOP senator: Let high schools decide about opening




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Dual-Language Learning: How Schools Can Ensure It's for All Students

In this third installment on the growth in dual-language learning, one expert says broad access to programs is important, but that students need an early start to reap the benefits.




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Partnering to Reduce Achievement Gaps in New Mexico

A school leader outlines how research findings on reducing achievement gaps are reflected in practice at her New Mexico school.




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Three Members of Navajo Family, Two of Them Educators, Die From COVID-19

Marie Pino, who taught generations of children in her Navajo community, died at 67. She had lost one of her sons, a school basketball coach, to coronavirus-related illness just weeks before; her husband, an emergency medical coordinator and pastor, died of the illness shortly after she did.




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School Closings Leave Rural Students Isolated, Disconnected

The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated—cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance.




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Federal Judge Denies Relief in Challenge to New Mexico School Reopening Rules

In a case that has drawn the involvement of the Trump administration, a federal judge holds that state rules limiting in-person instruction are not infringing on federal constitutional rights.




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Santa Fe schools end in-person learning experiment




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Teacher vacations one reason to close schools in New Mexico




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Tribal leaders tackle healthcare, education in annual summit




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Amid virus outbreak, New Mexico addresses school enrollment




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New Mexico to delay winter high school sports until February




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New Mexico lawmakers consider slimmer child welfare budgets




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New Breed of After-School Programs Embrace English-Learners

A handful of districts and other groups are reshaping the after-school space to provide a wide range of social and linguistic supports for newcomer students.




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Are Schools Prepared to Respond to Sex Abuse? Latest Probe Reveals Shortcomings

A federal investigation of Chicago's failures to respond to sexual violence in schools raises troubling questions for school districts nationwide.




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AASA Selects Illinois Educator as Superintendent of the Year

David Schuler, the superintendent of Township High School District 214 in Arlington Heights, Ill., has been named 2018 National Superintendent of the Year.




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For Educators Vying for State Office, Teachers' Union Offers 'Soup to Nuts' Campaign Training

In the aftermath of this spring's teacher protests, more educators are running for state office—and the National Education Association is seizing on the political moment.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed (Nov. 13, 2019)

A collection of short news stories from the last week.




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One More Teacher Wins State Seat, Bringing Count to 43

One more teacher was elected to state legislature in a closely contested race.




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Illinois High Court Backs Pension for One-Day Teacher Substitute

A union lobbyist who worked just one day as a substitute teacher is entitled to a pension worth potentially tens of thousands of dollars annually, the Illinois supreme court has ruled.




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In Illinois, New Budget Caps Raises and Limits Pensions for Teachers

The state's budget bill, which Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law this week, caps annual raises for end-of-career-teachers, lowering the pension they can receive.




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State-District Tensions Swell Over School Pensions

There’s a tussle over the right balance for who should pick up the tab for teacher retirements and how that affects wealthier and less-wealthy districts.




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Could 'Redshirting' Become A Thing of the Past in Illinois?

Lawmakers in Illinois are considering a bill that would require children to start kindergarten if they are 5 on or before May 31, with exceptions for summer birthdays.




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Chicago Strike: Why Teachers Are on the Picket Lines Once Again

Teachers in the nation's third-largest school system are fighting for salary increases, class-size caps, and a written commitment for more nurses, social workers, and librarians—as well as investments some say are outside the scope of collective bargaining.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Illinois

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Do Cops Belong in Schools? Minneapolis Tragedy Prompts a Hard Look at School Police

In the aftermath of last month’s killing of an unarmed Minneapolis man in police custody, school systems are re-examining their own contracts with local police agencies.




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More School Districts Sever Ties With Police. Will Others Follow?

Campaigns to get rid of police in schools catch a wave of momentum in some communities, but activists still face deep resistance from educators nationally.




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Illinois Directs Districts to Set Aside Federal COVID Aid for All Private School Students

The state's decision indicates that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' push on COVID-19 and private school students is having an affect.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Illinois

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A collection of stories you may have missed.




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Districts Struggle to Keep Tabs on COVID-19 Cases

Confusion reigns when it comes to finding and reporting data on school-related coronavirus infections. That's a problem for school leaders weighing shutdowns.




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Supreme Court Declines Appeal Backed by Illinois School Districts on Tax Remedies

The court declined to take up an appeal backed by school groups of a ruling allowing some property taxpayers challenge their assessments in federal court.




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Self-portrait: Fiona Murphy

My earliest memories of books and words are of awe and suspicion.




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2023 Fellows announced

Each year, Library Fellows help uncover new stories and offer fresh insights into our extensive collections.




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Take 5 swimming suits

Shining a spotlight on five of our favourite swimming suits from the collection.   Bathing dresses




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Self-portrait: George Haddad

There is an anarchist in me who swells against my sensible façade.




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Surf shooters catching a wave

A recently acquired vintage photograph by an influential early-twentieth-century photographer shows one of the first d