Archive for 2016- Page 35
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January 06, 2016
Solving health issues to get more kids to class
(Ore.) State officials in Oregon taking a new look at an old problem have found that tackling health problems is one way to improve chronic absenteeism.
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January 06, 2016
Federal sanctions on failing schools don’t die easy
(Calif.) A key component of the nation’s new education law adopted last month did away with federal sanctions imposed on schools designated as “failing” as defined by the prior regime.
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January 05, 2016
Few surprises expected for schools in Brown’s new budget
(Calif.) After using the budget process to initiate or support massive policy changes for K-12 education in recent years, Gov. Jerry Brown is likely to give schools a respite when he unveils his 2016-17 spending plan on Thursday.
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January 05, 2016
Common Core eases literary classics to the sidelines
(Wash.) In some schools where Common Core rules the curriculum, only parts of Joseph Heller’s classic tale of a struggle and disillusionment is likely read, with the themes of “Catch-22” taught in tandem with other, more modern stories and visual aids.
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January 04, 2016
Local waterways serve as science ‘classrooms’
(Calif.) Solano County’s creeks and waterways – the 116,000-acre Suisun Marsh included – have become outdoor classrooms for teaching local students the importance of a healthy watershed and the impacts their own actions can have on these life-sustaining resources.
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January 04, 2016
Chronic truants would lose driving privilege
(N.M.) Gov. Susana Martinez is calling on lawmakers to resuscitate a previously stalled bill that would bar chronically absent students from attaining driver’s licenses in an effort to curb the state’s high truancy rates.
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