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Superintendent Christian Elkington and the rest of RSU 9 administration will be re-thinking their strategies around chronic absenteeism in the coming school year.

An estimated 16 million students nationwide missed a substantial chunk of the last school year. Experts say there's no one solution to getting them back into the classroom consistently.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman said the hiring of the 1619 Project creator would be controversial. He was right about that and his own intervention has helped fuel the continuing controversy.

A Year of COVID-19: What It Looked Like for Schools A Timeline 13 min read A Timeline 13 min read It started with the closure of a single high school in Washington state on Feb. 27, 2020. A school employee’s relative had gotten sick and tested positive for the coronavirus. The school underwent a deep cleaning and reopened two days later. One month later, nearly every school building in the United States was shut down, an unfathomable moment. Schools scrambled to stand up a remote learning program—some virtual, some by passing out packets of learning materials. Most of us tho...

Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education: Background and Achievements By Education Week Library — March 01, 2021 2 min read Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, speaks after being put forward for the position by then-President-elect Joe Biden in December 2020.Carolyn Kaster/AP Share article Copy URL Biographical Information: Cardona was born in Meriden, Conn. After earning a degree in bilingual bicultural education from Central Connecticut State University, he began his education career in 1998, working as a 4th-grade teache...