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For K–12 education, 2023 was a year spent over a threshold. Schools had one foot in the shutdown era, still struggling to restore a sense of normalcy that disappeared in 2020. A steep rise in behavioral and disciplinary issues, which many teachers hoped would be only the temporary product of COVID’s generational disruption to routines, […]

Public schools are about to face a heap of fiscal challenges. With billions of dollars of federal COVID relief about to run out, student enrollment dropping and pension obligations skyrocketing, there are tough choices ahead for districts. But for certain public schools, funding challenges are nothing new. For the last two decades, our research team […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — With efforts underway to boost businesses and housing in Oklahoma’s City’s northeast side, LaTasha Timberlake saw a need to strengthen another core piece of the historically Black area — its schools. That’s why the longtime educator and nonprofit director is part of a group trying to found a charter middle school in […]

Companies more focused on profits than students, unwillingness to invest in public education. there are more opportunities for affluent students, not enough for low income students. those are places where she could be leading but isnt. >> some of the charter schools are pretty good. >> as you look nationally there are places where you have high performing charters, but the problem? michigan is there is no accountability for charter performance. you have a proliferation of low performing schools,...