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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

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As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. Fast forward to this school year. I find comfort in metaphors. Our daughter was one of 3.7

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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

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As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

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The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. If you ask school leaders, that sets it apart.

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Who Does School Reform Serve?

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Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

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Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate. million of emergency school funds were spent on mental health support for students and staff. Gilmore says.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

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We feel this with each school shooting we endure. As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities. Enough is enough.

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Students Need Summer Learning That Doesn’t Feel Like School

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Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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