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Candidates for Los Angeles Mayor Discuss Plans to Partner With LAUSD for Pandemic Recovery Phase: Poverty, Mental Health, Safety on the Agenda
Philly Schools Are Screening Middle Schoolers for Weapons
Federal Probe into Native Boarding School Deaths Likely a Severe Undercount
74 Interview: 3 Generations, One Navajo Family’s Indian Boarding School Legacy
A Child Snuck His Book Into the Library. Now There’s a Waitlist to Read It
This Week in Pandemic Education Policy: Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Spending Nights in Emergency Rooms, NYC Launching Public Virtual Schools & More
Vice President Kamala Harris Speaks at Tennessee State University Graduation
Bill to Ban Racial Oppression as Subject in Louisiana Schools is Shelved
Minneapolis Teacher Strike Lasted 3 Weeks. The Fallout Will Be Felt for Years
Fired Superintendent Files Discrimination Complaint, New Chief Steps In
Canada’s Grammys to Honor Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne Alongside the Music Teacher of the Year
With Piles of Campaign Cash, Christian Activists Make North Texas School Board Races a State Battleground
As Absenteeism Skyrockets, Schools Get Creative About Luring Back Lost Students
LAUSD Failed Students With Disabilities During the Pandemic: Parents, Advocates, Attorneys on How the District Should Help Them Now
Congress Expands Brown v. Board of Education Historic Site Beyond Kansas
SXSW EDU Launch Winner Our Worlds Bringing Native American Culture to Life Through Mobile-Based Immersive Reality
Educating Through the Pandemic: From Rural Texas Schools Pivoting to 4-Day Weeks to California Losing 100,000 Students, 9 COVID Challenges Facing Leaders
Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way
74 Interview: David Brooks Talks Education, Cultural Divides and How the Weavers in our Schools Will Help Heal America
Gov. Greg Abbott Says Federal Government Should Cover Cost of Educating Undocumented Students in Texas Public Schools
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Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night: Via The New York Times.
Hundreds of teens sleep in hospital emergency departments every night because of a shortage of beds in inpatient treatment centers. (Gado/Getty Images)
The Big Three — May 13, 2022
FDA Updates Congress on Vaccines for Children Under 5: Frustrated by the lack of information related to vaccines for under-5s, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina summoned the Food and Drug Administration to Capitol Hill for a briefing and shared what he learned:
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New York City officials say they are going to launch two full-time virtual schools. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
New York: NYC to launch two full-time virtual schools, Chalkbeat reports.
Affordable Connectivity Program: The White House said 20 internet service providers have agreed to offer $30 high-speed internet plans to low-income families, effectively giving free service to households that qualify for a federal subsidy under the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Federal Communications Commission: Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel circulates ruling to make Wi-Fi on school buses eligible for E-Rate funding.
Institute of Education Sciences: Released Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: Fiscal Year 2020.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration: Released data from its 2021 Internet Use Survey showing “that historically less-connected communities used the Internet and connected devices in greater numbers than they did two years ago. Despite that progress, the substantial disparities that [the administration] has tracked for decades continued to be evident, highlighting the urgent need to work toward digital equity in the United States.” More via Data Explorer tool.
Arizona: New report and press release from A for Arizona, “Transportation Modernization & Innovation Grants to Eliminate Access Barriers” which touches on everything from policy flexibility to “micro transit needs” to grants for families.
Colorado: U.S. deputy secretary of education visits Aurora Public Schools with eye on mental health efforts.
Massachusetts: Virtual schools approved for another year.
New Hampshire: “The Yes, Every Student (YES!) scholarship program is designed to help families and residents whose education was negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by awarding $1,000 tutoring scholarships to New Hampshire students, which includes public, non-public, home education and Education Freedom Account students. It is the second year in a row the Department of Education has offered the scholarships.”
As Absenteeism Skyrockets, Schools Get Creative About Luring Back Lost Students: Via The 74.
Freshmen, Held Back During Pandemic, Fuel ‘Bulge’ in 9th Grade Enrollment: Via The 74.
Routine Saliva Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Children: Study.
Lessons Not Learned: The Disaster of COVID-19 School Closures: Via Alasdair Munro, senior clinical research fellow in pediatric infectious diseases at University Hospital Southampton.
FDA Limits Use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine: Citing clotting risk. FDA press release. More via Stat.
Mix-and-Match mRNA Vaccines May Offer More Omicron Protection: Study.
Kids’ Odds of Spreading COVID-19 in Households Rising With New Variants: Study.
Evidence Mounts for Need to Study Pfizer’s Paxlovid for Long COVID: Additional reports of patients with long COVID who were helped by Paxlovid offer fresh impetus for conducting clinical trials to test the medicine for the debilitating condition, Reuters reports.
Bill Gates on School Closures: “It’s pretty clear, because young people don’t get sick from the disease very often, that we probably, if we knew everything we know today, we would have shut schools down a lot less than we did during this pandemic.”
Remembering the 1 Million Lives Lost: The bells of the Washington National Cathedral toll 1,000 times in memory of the 1 million people who have died from COVID-19.
Teens, High School Parents and Their Perspectives on the Pandemic: Via EdChoice. Report / Teens Crosstabs / High School Parents Crosstabs
As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss: New GAO report.
We Parents of Unvaccinated Children Need More Guidance: Via Nita Farahany in the Washington Post.
New Education Policy Roadmap Aims to Ensure High School Graduates in Every State are ‘Future-Ready’: Civic, CASEL and the Coalition for Career Development Center share recommendations for policymakers.
Not Good for Learning: “New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities,” The New York Times reports.
Teachers Believe Whole-Child Learning Gives Students the Skills Needed to Succeed: Gradient Learning has released results from a national survey, indicating 91% of teachers believe students perform better when schools prioritize whole-child learning.
…And on a Reflective Note
She lost her shoe coming out of the starting blocks.
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John Bailey is an advisor to the Walton Family Foundation and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously served in the White House and U.S. Department of Education. He worked on pandemic preparedness at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2006.
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