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Schools Are Required to Teach Mental-Health Lessons This Fall in Two States. And That's a First.

Students returning to schools in Virginia and New York this fall will be required to participate in mental-health education as part of their health and physical education courses.




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N.Y. Private Schools Didn't Have to Report Abuse to Police. A New Law Changes That.

Private schools in New York soon will be required to report suspected sexual abuse of students in their schools to law enforcement, bringing the independent schools under the same rules as public schools.




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Prominent Literacy Expert Denies Dyslexia Exists; Says to 'Shoot' Whoever Wrote Law on It

A group of teachers and literacy advocates are pushing back after Richard Allington, one of the country's most prominent experts on early literacy, made inflammatory claims about dyslexia at a Tennessee literacy conference this week.




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How Teachers' Insights Inform State Policy in Tennessee

Teachers in Tennessee have an important voice in shaping state initiatives and policies.




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A Once Homeless Teen Earned $3 Million in Scholarship Offers. Here's What Made His Story Possible

Tupac Mosley overcame homelessness to graduate as valedictorian, writes Jonathan E. Collins, but there’s an overlooked part of his inspirational story: policy.




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Tennessee Seeks New Teacher, Principal Requirements in 'Science of Reading'

The Tennessee department of education is proposing unsually comprehensive legislation that will require all current and new K-3 teachers, and those who train them, to know evidence-based reading instruction.




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Judge rules Tennessee's voucher law is unconstitutional




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'I've Had a Lot of Survivor's Guilt': Columbine High's Former Principal on Healing His Community

Frank DeAngelis, who was the principal of Columbine High School from 1996-2014, talks about the steps he took to heal students and staff in the wake of the school shooting.




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Settlement Reached in Colorado Case Over Students' Constitutional Rights

Students engaged in a protest against a culture they saw as punitive; their principal suspended them. What did a court say?




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Alabama student names NASA's first Mars helicopter




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Questions surround governor's proposal to open schools early




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District Hard-Hit by COVID-19 Begins 'Tough Work' of Getting On

No place in Georgia has suffered a higher rate of coronavirus cases than Dougherty County. And the school system, largely rural and poor, is in the middle of it.




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Raimondo tells schoolkids: I'll help you cope with isolation




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Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




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South Carolina school 'flips' popular teacher parades




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Planning process for Arizona's next school year underway




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Accreditor frowns on Georgia school system's board troubles




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Should Schools Pay for Teachers' Internet Access?

A nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey found that just 1 percent of teachers said their school or district was paying for their high-speed, wireless internet at home.




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Judge rules Tennessee's voucher law is unconstitutional




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Tiny Teaching Stories: 'I Wish I Had Known'

Super-short stories written by teachers about their triumphs and frustrations, and the hilarious or absurd moments from their lives.




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Who's Afraid of Math? Turns Out, Lots of Students

A program in Howard County, Md., is built on the insight that children can have strong emotions around academics, and those emotions can sabotage learning.




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Audit slams Española Public Schools’ finances




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Ex-Florida sheriff's removal lawsuit dismissed




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Who's Doing the Teaching After School Lets Out?

Faced with a push for academic programming, after-school providers are deploying new strategies to train and recruit effective educators.




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Open Enrollment Has Drained One District. It's Looking to Dissolve

Wisconsin’s Palmyra-Eagle district has lost more than half its students in the last decade, sparking a fiscal crisis. A special board is deciding whether the district should be allowed to dissolve.




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Should Schools Have an N-Word Policy? Uproar Over Guard's Firing Forces Hard Questions

The firing of a black staff member for repeating the n-word while telling a black student not to use it underscores how uneasy many districts, schools, and educators are with handling the use of racist language in any context.




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Why Don't Struggling K-12 Districts Just Dissolve?

Emotions remain raw as educators and residents in a rural Wisconsin district dig for solutions after being denied the option of dissolving.




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Panel Rejects Wisconsin District's Request to Dissolve

Members of the special state panel felt the Palmyra-Eagle district needs more time to explore options to stay alive, though many residents, including the local school board, believe the district faces a fiscal cliff.




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Wisconsin high court won't let unions join stay-at-home suit




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The PACE Perspective on the 'The California Way'

Policy Analysis for California Education has been a premier ed policy organization for three decades. As Daisy Gonzales writes, it is in the forefront of shaping current reforms and interpreting them for audiences such as 'On California.'




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'On California' Is on Vacation

The blessings of season to you all! We will be back in the New Year. Christmas thoughts follow.




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Teachers' Union Victory in California

Teachers unions are scapegoats for low student performance.




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'California, Trump on Collision Course'

A read of California's news outlets makes clear that the state is not going to accept President-elect Donald Trump's policies without a fight, particularly those on immigration.




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Charter Advocates Dealt Loss in California Chief's Election

State Assembly member Tony Thurmond ultimately prevailed over former charter school executive Marshall Tuck in a contest that drew more than $50 million in outside campaign spending.




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California Teachers Challenge Union's Collection of Dues

Five California educators last week filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state's top teachers' union from collecting dues through mandatory paycheck deductions.




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Paid Maternity Leave for Teachers? California's Governor Says No Once Again

The bill would have given public school teachers at least six weeks of paid maternity leave.




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With no school, calls drop but child abuse hasn't amid virus




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Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




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What if Hawaii's False Alarm Had Happened on a School Day?

Hawaii's schools are prepared to respond to ballistic missile threats, education officials wrote in a letter to parents after Saturday's false alarm.




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He's Fighting for Details on How Hawaii Spent $2 Billion on Its Schools

An activist's lawsuit is an example of how many states, because of outdated software, have trouble answering the public's demand to detail how billions of K-12 dollars are spent.




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Teachers, If You're Not OK Right Now, You're Not Alone

In desperately trying to be a superhero for my students, I underestimated the gravity of the coronavirus crisis, writes Hawaii teacher Lory Walker Peroff.




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Here's How Many Teaching Jobs Could Be Lost in Each State in a COVID-19 Recession

There could be an 8.4 percent reduction in the U.S. teaching corps, and some states could see reductions as large as 20 percent, according to a new analysis by the Learning Policy Institute.




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Hawaii unions push back at governor's salary cut proposal




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'Déjà Vu All Over Again' in New Jersey

New Jersey's Camden takeover in context.




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Newark Principals Speak Out, Get Suspended by Christie's Superintendent

Now Newark, New Jersey, is exploding, thanks to the attempts at intimidation by Governor Christie's hand-picked superintendent of schools, Cami Anderson.




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You'll Never Guess Which State Was Just Named the Best for Teachers

Here's a clue: the governor has said the teachers' unions need to be punched in the face.




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N.J. Supreme Court Rejects Gov. Christie's Motion to Replace Funding Formula

Gov. Christie has pushed to flatten the state's funding formula so that the state's impoverished urban districts would get the same amount of money wealthy suburban districts get.




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How Schools Will Overcome the 'Coronavirus Slide:' Ideas From 5 Superintendents

With many school buildings closed for the rest of the academic year—and more to follow—district leaders turn their attention to making up for what may be deep learning losses.




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Teacher's Facebook Post on Students' Social Media Secrets Goes Viral

Utah science teacher Skipper Coates asked her students to complete the following sentence: "What my parents don't know about social media is..."




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'Pay for Success' Funding Model Focus of Policy Toolkit

The Urban Institute released a toolkit aimed at policymakers and investors interested in using private dollars to pay for public programs, such as prekindergarten.