There are actually only 50 states in the United States of America. The other two “states” are actually federal districts – the District of Columbia (which contains the nation’s capital city, Washington D.C.) and Puerto Rico. So why do so many people mistakenly believe that there are 5...
In a 2020 study, the Center for Climate Integrity estimated that by 2025, 156 school districts — serving nearly 1.3 million students — will seeat least 30 more days over 80 degrees Fahrenheitduring the school year than they did in 1970. California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, M...
In an effort to attract and retain good teachers, many school districts have started incentive programs. Some offer better pay to teachers willing to work in high-poverty areas or in hard-to-staff subjects. Others pay for performance, giving bonuses to teachers whose students show measurable acad...
Many schools have retained that nonacademic time and – rooted in the belief that students do better when they feel connected to their teachers and schools are more personalized – replaced it with "advisory." Some of us may recall our high school homeroom, that short class b...
According to a district leader in Iowa, it was the theme of the 2020-21 school year: “Pivot, pivot, pivot.” It is only certain this will continue to be a theme as districts learn more about student learning gaps and decide how to address learning loss or accelerate learning with ...
How to Get Private School Financial Aid. Diane Hirshberg, director and professor of education policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at theUniversity of Alaska—Anchoragesays access to choice options within public school districts “varies considerably by the size of school districts...
Several districts in other states have embraced the program; Davenport (Iowa), and Nash-Rocky Mount (North Carolina), among others, have multiple ENERGY STAR schools. Indiana has nine ENERGY STAR schools. Eight are part of New Albany-Floyd County......
Frank Biden’s chance encounter in 2009 with a Mavericks executive launched his years-long effort to place the for-profit business in several Florida school districts. Charter schools are heavily regulated and depend on approvals by school boards and other government officials to operate, so convinc...
But our most recent research has uncovered another critical challenge: While many school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs) are investing in programs to develop more transformational leaders, there is rarely a plan in place to deploy these people effectively within an individual ...
baseline to spring 2021. Many districts and schools also experienced drops in enrollment during the pandemic as students struggled to make the transition to online or hybrid education or experienced family difficulties. As a result, we also included change in public school enrollment in th...