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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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Trump Administration Weighs In On Lawsuit Against State's Transgender-Athlete Policy

The Trump administration weighed into a lawsuit, arguing that a state's transgender-athlete policy forces "biological girls to compete against biological boys who publicly identify with the female gender and want to compete on sex-specific athletic teams."




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Connecticut

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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Connecticut Ranks Third on Quality Counts Annual Report Card

The state, which earned a B, is one of the nation’s wealthiest and turned in strong performances in the school finance arena and in areas such as preschool and kindergarten enrollment.




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How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future

Schools are slowly figuring out how to balance thinking globally with acting locally, and recognizing that some key skills are valuable no matter where students end up living.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Connecticut

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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Coronavirus Upends After-School World

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.




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Teachers union: Stagger school start times, change seating




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Lamont canceling in-person classes for rest of school year




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Georgia and North Carolina Latest to Apply for ESSA's Innovative Testing Pilot

The Every Student Succeeds Act allows up to seven states to try out new kinds of tests in a handful of districts before taking them statewide.




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Georgia Earns a C+ on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 33rd in Nation

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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Georgia Wants In on the ESSA Innovative Assessment Pilot

Georgia wants to allow districts to use a series of "formative assessments" instead of one big test at the end of the year.




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Child-Care Challenges Cost Georgia Nearly $2 Billion Annually, Study Finds

A new study says that problems surrounding child-care hurt Georgia parents economically in many ways including in turned down promotions and having to cut back on work and school hours.




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Georgia Leader Chosen as National 2019 Superintendent of the Year

Curtis Jones, a U.S. Army veteran, has led Georgia's Bibb County school system since 2015.




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K12 Inc., Ga. Cyber Academy Contract Battle Brews

Students locked out of their school's computer systems. Educators unable to get access to some students' records. Parents receiving emails asking that they return their children's laptops.




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AASA Selects Georgia Leader as 2019 Superintendent of Year

Curtis Jones, a U.S. Army veteran who has led Georgia's Bibb County school system since 2015, has been named the 2019 AASA National Superintendent of the Year.




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K12 Inc., Georgia Charter School Locked in Bitter Fight

The Georgia Cyber Academy moved to stop using the company's curriculum and technology, a decision that K12 Inc. says violated an agreement between the two sides.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Georgia

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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How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future

Schools are slowly figuring out how to balance thinking globally with acting locally, and recognizing that some key skills are valuable no matter where students end up living.




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Georgia school board votes to remove superintendent early




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Georgia

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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How Districts Are Helping Teachers Get Better at Tech Under Coronavirus

Educators are struggling to learn how to use new tech tools—devices, apps, software, and online textbooks—in greater volume than ever before.




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2 Georgia high schoolers expelled after posting racist video




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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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Georgia district picks ex-leader of New York, Miami schools




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Desegregation Order Lifted on Georgia School District in Coronavirus Hotspot

Dougherty County, a largely black school district in an region heavily affected by coronavirus, is no longer subject to desegregation orders first imposed in 1963.




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Georgia allocates $411M in federal COVID-19 aid to schools




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Accreditor frowns on Georgia school system's board troubles




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Teacher of the Year in Oregon Fired

A special education teacher has been fired the year after winning Oregon's teacher of the year award.




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Achievement, Grad Rate Among Tribal Students of Concern in Oregon

New report on Oregon's tribal students show they start out behind, miss more school, and are more likely to drop out.




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Atlanta Official Resigns, But Loses Out on Post in Oregon

Atlanta's top school official has resigned and is fighting to keep a report investigating his background secret.




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Oregon Educator Named Superintendent of the Year

Matthew Utterback, the superintendent of the North Clackamas district in Oregon, was named last week as the 2017 National Superintendent of the Year.




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Oregon Considers Ethnic Studies Standards

Oregon is the latest state to consider adding an ethnic studies curriculum.




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A Son of Migrant Farmworkers Is the 2020 Superintendent of the Year

The Eugene, Ore., superintendent has led the district since 2015 and has emphasized diverse leadership, improved school facilities, and support services for newly arrived immigrant students and their families.




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What Policymakers Got Right With Oregon's Student Success Act

Guest blogger Andy Saultz explains that clear goals, built-in local decisionmaking, flexibility, and community involvement are the keys to the Student Success Act's success.




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Dual-Language Learning: How Schools Can Invest in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

In this fourth installment on the growth in dual-language learning, the director of dual-language education in Portland, Ore., says schools must have a clear reason for why they are offering dual-language instruction.




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Oregon Governor Orders Release of School Performance Ratings

Gov. Kate Brown ordered the public release of annual school performance ratings last week after Oregon's biggest newspaper reported that a Brown appointee had delayed the release of the statistical rankings until after the high-stakes gubernatorial election Nov. 6.




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Two More Statewide Teacher Protests Are on the Horizon

Teachers in North Carolina and Oregon plan to walk out of their classrooms in protest in May.




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School Workers in Oregon Sue Union Over Window of Opportunity to Quit

Three Oregon school employees sued their union in federal court last week, arguing it's unfair that the teachers' union only lets members drop out and stop paying dues during the month of September.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Oregon

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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Rapid Deployment of Remote Learning: Lessons From 4 Districts

Chief technology officers are facing an unprecedented test of digital preparedness due to the coronavirus pandemic, struggling with shortfalls of available learning devices and huge Wi-Fi access challenges.




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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Oregon District's Pro-Transgender 'Safety Plan'

A federal appeals court rejected a multi-pronged challenge to a school district plan allowing transgender students to use restrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Oregon

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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Oregon schools to furlough teachers, boost pay with stimulus




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How One State Changed Its ESSA Plan in Response to the Trump Team

What have states actually done in response to U.S. Department of Education feedback on their plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act? Here's Delaware's answer.




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With ESSA Passage, Delaware Offers Lessons

Paul Herdman of the Rodel Foundation of Delaware checks in where his state is after RTTT and how the state's education plan can serve as a model for other states responding to ESSA's reduction of federal oversight.




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President of Delaware Teachers' Union Resigns Due to Sexist, Racist Posts

Mike Matthews wrote several sexist and racist blog posts a decade ago that were recently unearthed.




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In Delaware, Creating Career Pathways for Youths

A statewide initiative aims to enroll half the state's high school students into career pathways to close a "skills gap."




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Reimagining Professional Learning in Delaware

Stephanie Hirsh recently visited several schools in Delaware to see first-hand the impact of the state's redesigned professional learning system.