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Schools across Maine confront unique challenges in ridding their water of ‘forever chemicals’
July 21, 2024
Funding and delays have kept schools on bottled water for over a year as they try to eliminate their PFAS.
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Rural Student Qualifications Don’t Align with Local Job Markets
July 18, 2024
In rural regions like Kentucky Coal Country, a “Great Misalignment” poses challenges for rural students looking for employment — and for rural employers looking for a qualified workforce.
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Oklahoma’s superintendent orders public schools to teach the Bible – relying on controversial views about religious freedom
July 08, 2024
Ryan Walters claimed in an interview on NewsNation that the Bible had “been removed from classrooms, and we’re saying, listen, we’re proud to be the first state to bring it back.”
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Over 100 Wisconsin school districts fielded inquiries, challenges to books
July 03, 2024
‘Gender Queer’ by Maia Kobabe was most challenged book since 2020. Restricted books included ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘Slaughterhouse-Five.’
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Ithaca school officials receive racist messages after anti-affirmative action lawsuit
June 21, 2024
The superintendent and Board of Education President, who are both Black, said they received racist and threatening messages in the days after an anti-affirmative action group filed a lawsuit alleging the school district discriminated against white students.
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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took
June 15, 2024
In Lexington, Nebraska, where two-thirds of residents are Hispanic, hundreds of children lack access to high-quality child care from providers who can communicate with their parents. Something had to change.
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Upcoming wrestling event in Breckenridge to benefit BISD
June 13, 2024
The 50/50 ticketing split for the Rampage Wrestling event will provide funding for the LiveStream Team at Breckenridge High School.
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Mat-Su school officials return challenged books to library shelves following internal review
June 12, 2024
More than a dozen books in Mat-Su school libraries community members community members challenged last year have been returned to shelves after district administrators determined they do not violate a state law against distributing indecent material to children.
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Why rural Missouri schools and hospitals might become homebuyers
June 10, 2024
Employers across Missouri are looking for creative ways to retain workers in their towns. Buying homes for them might be a start.
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Missouri and Kansas families will be getting money for kids’ summer meals — eventually
June 03, 2024
The new summer EBT program will give an extra $120 to eligible school-age kids. Families probably won’t get the money until late summer or fall. But even if the money comes late, anti-hunger advocates say the extra dollars are an important step toward reducing growing food insecurity in the states.
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Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum
May 30, 2024
The proposed curriculum overhaul was released a week after the Texas GOP proposed requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. School districts that opt to use them will get more funding.
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An art show at an Augusta County school prompts an emergency school board meeting
May 24, 2024
Art has often been controversial. Across the country, schools are finding student art to be a place where values come into conflict.
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Mississippi falls short of an eighth-grade literacy miracle
May 23, 2024
The gap between the national average and Mississippi’s eighth-grade reading score has gotten smaller over the last decade, but it hasn’t closed at the rate of fourth-grade reading.
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Rural Schools Look for Ways to Bring More Multilingual Education into the Curriculum
May 22, 2024
In order to provide the most educational opportunities, rural schools are implementing a variety of strategies to accommodate the needs of bilingual students. But teachers shortages and funding are among the biggest challenges.
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Red Hook Voters, Amid Unusually High Turnout, Roundly Reject Schools Capital Budget with Artificial Turf Field
May 21, 2024
Voters’ concerns centered largely on environmental issues with artificial turf; some parents also surfaced concerns about turf safety. It’s not clear what the board would do to seek voters’ approval for the range of capital projects in the proposal.
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