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Donald Trump · New YorkFormer President Donald Trump falsely claimed this week that migrant students are displacing other children from New York City schools. In fact, the city's public schools have struggled in recent years with the opposite problem: too many empty seats. There is no evidence that any students have been left without a school seat due to the arrival of new migrants, and an Education Department spokesperson said the claims were false.See the Story
Donald Trump falsely claims migrants are displacing NYC students in spite of empty seats in city schools
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Charter Schools · DenverRocky Mountain Prep's Federal campus is not the only one of the network's five middle schools where students have experienced instructional changes. The decision to scrap sixth grade science classes is among a host of changes at Rocky Mountain Prep over the last year. The network prides itself on providing its mostly low-income and Latino students with a rigorous college prep education.See the Story
This Denver charter school cut science class because too many students were reading below grade level
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Illinois · IllinoisCPS plans to do away with a decade-old system in which school funding was largely based on student enrollment. Starting next year, each school will get a set number of staff and additional funding based on need. The change, announced Thursday at a Chicago Board of Education meeting, is part of a revamp of the district's funding formula.See the Story
RIP student-based budgeting: CPS plans to provide all schools base staffing levels
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Honolulu · HonoluluThe College Board is rolling out the digital test after hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities ditched test score requirements for admissions in recent years. Critics of the test remain skeptical. The College Board feels confident that a score of 900 or a 1300 will tell the same story about a student that it did a year ago.See the Story
The SAT is going digital. Here’s what to know
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Coronavirus · JuneauIGA Foodland Grocery Store Juneau Alaska, December 20, 2022 (Photo By Paige Sparks/KTOO) This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mollie Eppers tried for years to give students experiencing homelessness prepaid grocery cards that would allow their families to shop for food. But the student services specialist in Juneau, Alaska, couldn’t devise a system that would satisfy the spending…See the Story
Grocery cards and car repairs: How COVID aid changed the way schools can help homeless kids
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Newark, New Jersey · Newark20 Newark schools moved out of state designations for schools in need of support due to low student performance. Seven Newark schools continue to need state support to raise student achievement next school year. Weequahic High School and Rafael Hernandez Elementary School exited one of the lowest designations.See the Story
20 Newark schools no longer underperforming per federal guidelines
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Illinois · IllinoisIllinois state lawmakers filed two bills last week aimed at reversing the Chicago Board of Education. The bills focus on board moves that have drawn both support and sharp pushback in recent months from school communities and elected officials. Those decisions include a plan to reconsider the district's system of school choice, including charter, selective enrollment, magnet, and gifted schools.See the Story
Illinois lawmakers seek to blunt Chicago school board votes
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