Kate Rix News Today

All over the U.S., public schools are reopening. You can picture what’s happening in about 85-90 percent of the classrooms: The teachers are spending the first week just getting to know their students, explaining (or developing) the rules for classroom behavior, working out the routines, setting expectations, and doing other important (but not particularly educational) […]

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The “Transformation Schools” program, which offer a socioeconomically mixed student body, has proven so popular that the district plans to open 11 more such schools in the next three years.

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