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tutoring
contracts

Tutoring’s New Game: Better Academic Results Yield Bigger Payoffs for Providers

In linking pay to student progress, participants in ‘outcomes-based’ efforts say accountability must be a ‘two-way street.’

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Hawaii
Hawaii

Maui’s Displaced Students: Hawaii to Reopen Lahaina Schools 2 Months After Fire

Three schools will resume classes after fall break, while a temporary facility is being built for students of the destroyed King Kamehameha III school

Megan Tagami, CalMatters
Indiana
child care

Uncertain Future for Providers as Child Care Crisis Looms

One national think tank estimates that 3.2 million children may lose their child care as federal grant funding expires at the end of the month.

Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital Chronicle
mississippi
education

Few Schools Using Mississippi’s Telehealth Program, but Admin Hopes to Ramp Up

The program, which is free to students, began with the goal of increasing access to medical care and keeping children in school more hours each day.

Julia James, Mississippi Today
Maryland
achievement gaps

Latest Maryland Test Results Show Wide Achievement Disparities

Baltimore City recorded the lowest proficiency percentage in fifth and eighth grade students this year at nearly 12% and 9%, respectively.

William J. Ford, Maryland Matters
COVID Policy Briefing

Schools Brace for COVID Surge: What New Variants & Vaccines Mean for Students

John Bailey
Maryland

Maryland Officials Want to Boost Schools’ Behavioral Health Services With $120M

Danielle J. Brown
college students

‘Success Coaches’ to Hit Indiana Colleges After Budget Approval

Leslie Bonilla Muñiz
school choice

North Carolina to Launch Education Savings Accounts, With Up to $7,500 Per Child

Linda Jacobson
The 74 Interview

How Ed Tech Tools Track Kids Online — And Why Parents Should Care

Mark Keierleber
Arkansas

Biden Administration Urges States to Rectify Underfunding of Land-Grant HBCUs

Ariana Figueroa
charter schools

Texas Districts Mull School Closures Amid Declining Enrollment, Competition from Charters

Brian Lopez
school choice

‘Growing Pains’: Microschools Face Regulatory Maze as Approach Takes Hold

Linda Jacobson
Arizona

No Rules for Arizona School Vans? That’s Because the Council for Them Has No Members

Caitlin Sievers
Maine

Families of Young Children Say Maine is Failing to Provide Special Education Support

Nick Shroeder
Innovative High Schools

Reinventing High School: 8 Common Trends at America’s Most Innovative Campuses

Greg Toppo & Emmeline Zhao
School (In)Security

ChatGPT Is Landing Kids in the Principal’s Office, Survey Finds

Mark Keierleber
Nevada

Clark County Teacher ‘Sickouts’ Ruled an Illegal Strike, Union to Appeal Decision

April Corbin Girnus
Ohio

Ohio’s Pandemic Recovery Slows As Achievement Gaps Fail To Close

Patrick O’Donnell
Science of math

As Test Scores Crater, Debate Over Whether There’s a ‘Science’ To Math Recovery

Jo Napolitano
Missouri

Lawmakers Consider Boosting Missouri Public Education Funding by $300 Million

Annelise Hanshaw
Maryland

Maryland Public Schools Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury Chooses Not to Return

William J. Ford
California

Soaring Chronic Absenteeism in California Schools is at ‘Pivotal Moment’

Carolyn Jones
The 74 Interview

74 Interview: Stanford Economist Eric Hanushek on COVID’s Trillion-Dollar Impact on Students

Kevin Mahnken
Early Childhood

Starting School Before Age 2 Helps Children Avoid Achievement Gaps, Study Finds

Linda Jacobson
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