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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Massachusetts

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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Online Charter Schools in North Carolina Petition to Go From Pilot to Permanent

The state's two virtual charter schools have earned poor marks from the state's accountability system in the few years they've been operating.




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Utah Ruling Highlights Sticky Issue of Partisan School Board Elections

In Florida, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, Republicans are arguing that candidates for local and state school boards should run on party tickets.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in North Carolina

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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Elementary School Teachers in North Carolina Turn Attention to Cursive Writing

Cursive writing is experiencing a resurgence of sorts in North Carolina elementary schools thanks to a state law that was passed in 2013.




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Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study

When schools reduce racial segregation between schools, racial isolation within the classes inside those schools goes up, according to an analysis of 20 years of North Carolina data.




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North Carolina Teachers Say Conditions in Schools Are 'Unacceptable'

North Carolina teachers had press conferences in seven locations across the state to criticize education spending levels.




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North Carolina Awards $12 Million Dollar Grant to Improve Literacy Instruction

A $12.2 million dollar grant from the state Department of Public Instruction will go to a program based at North Carolina State University to provide additional training literacy training to teachers in 16 high-needs districts across the state.




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Despite Fierce Teacher Opposition, West Virginia House Votes to Allow Charter Schools

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed its version of a sweeping education omnibus bill, which would allow the state's first charter schools.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in West Virginia

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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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Virginia

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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Educational Opportunities and Performance in West Virginia

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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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Virginia

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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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Maine

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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Where They Are: The Nation's Small But Growing Population of Black English-Learners

In five northern U.S. states, black students comprise more than a fifth of ELL enrollment.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Maine

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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Ohio Orders Cyber Charter to Return $60 Million

The Ohio board of education last week voted to order the state's largest full-time online charter school to repay $60 million in state aid.




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Gov. Strickland would like to make every high school student who meets certain academic requirements eligible to spend the 12th grade in an Ohio public university, tuition-free.




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State of the States: D.C., Ohio

Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.




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Ohio Sues Cyber Charter Founder, Pursuing Millions in Disputed Funds

Ohio is seeking to recoup millions of dollars in funds from now-defunct online charter school, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.




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Lion's Share of Ohio Districts Rank No Teachers as 'Ineffective'

About 94 percent of Ohio school districts did not rate a single teacher as "ineffective," the lowest rating on the state's four-rung teacher-evaluation scale, according to the 2016-17 state report card.




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Ohio Sues Cyber Charter Founder, Seeking Millions in Disputed Funds

Ohio's attorney general last week filed suit against the founder of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, aiming to recover millions of dollars in public funding that the state claims wrongfully went to the cyber charter school.




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School Resource Officer Activates Taser to Awaken Sleeping Student in Ohio

Police in northeast Ohio have placed a school resource officer on unpaid leave for activating a Taser to wake up a sleeping student.




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ECOT Looms Over Ohio Gubernatorial Candidates' Education Plans

Any discussion in politics of the future of education in Ohio inevitably turns to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.




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Eligibility for Federal School Improvement Grants Helped Ohio Students, Study Says

Academic achievement at Ohio schools eligible for School Improvement Grants during the Obama administration increased for a few years, a new study says, but SIG's legacy remains complicated.




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Ohio Expected to Ban Most Suspensions, Expulsions for Youngest Students

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is expected to sign a bill into law that would ban suspensions and expulsions for children in prekindergarten through 3rd grade for minor offenses.




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Bill Protecting Ohio E-School Heads to Governor

A bill shielding what is now Ohio's largest online school and its sponsor from the negative consequences of accepting thousands of former Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow students is headed to Gov. John Kasich for his signature.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Ohio

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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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Ohio

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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Ohio District's Armed-Employee Program Struck Down Over Training Requirement

An Ohio appellate court struck down a district's policy allowing staff members to carry concealed weapons in school with 24 hours of "active shooter/killer training."




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Ohio primary voters approved fewer school tax issues




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Ohio governor: $775 million budget cut as revenue crashes




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Oklahoma Orders Tulsa District to Review All Students' Special Education Plans

The decision comes after a state investigation of one Tulsa school found that the individualized education programs for students there frequently used generic educational goals.




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Election Night Brings Highs and Lows for Oklahoma Teachers

About a dozen teachers running for state legislative seats gathered with their supporters in Tulsa for a watch party on election night. The results were better for some than others.




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Who Shows Up for Teachers? Coalition-Building in the Era of Educator Activism

"Teaching is a political act," argues teacher-turned-politician John Waldron. And it's going to take more organizing to rescue public education.




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I Was an Angry Teacher Fighting for Better Education Policy. Now, I'm Shaping It

What goes on behind all the closed doors in politics? Most teachers never get a chance to find out, writes teacher-turned-politician John Waldron.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Oklahoma

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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Reading Instruction: A Flurry of New State Laws

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Oklahoma

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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Intruders post racist language in Oklahoma education meeting




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




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Right-to-Education Ruling Jolts Education-Advocacy World

The decision by a federal appeals court recognizing the right to a basic minimum education may be felt far beyond the substandard Detroit schools underlying it, but hurdles could remain.




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Questions surround governor's proposal to open schools early




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Given the option, Montana schools choose to remain closed




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




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Ohio primary voters approved fewer school tax issues




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Murphy tells Trump at White House NJ will need billions




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Teachers union: Stagger school start times, change seating




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Alaska book ban vote draws attention of hometown rockers