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States Submit Plans for Using Relief Funds for Recovery, But 23 States Still Working on Drafts

States Submit Plans for Using Relief Funds for Recovery, But 23 States Still Working on Drafts
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Multiple Skills Needed to Close Pandemic Gaps

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CDC Data Reveal Alarming Extent of Pandemic-Era Youth Mental Health Crisis

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Use ESSER Funds to Stop Suspensions, Expulsions & Arrests at School

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Give States & Districts More Time to Spend Federal COVID Relief Funds

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Amid COVID Chaos & Toxic Politics, School Superintendents Face 'Impossible' Job

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Moderna to Seek Authorization for Toddler Vaccine

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School Staffing Shortage: 100 Big Districts Tell Us Where They're Shorthanded

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Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

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How States Can Use Federal Relief Funds to Boost College Graduation

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How Schools Can Prepare Students for a 21st Century World

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Losing a ‘Godsend to the Bronx’: Parents Push Back Against DOE Shakeup

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The Impact of ‘Lost Instructional Time’ on Students During COVID-19

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Analysis: For America’s Future, Key STEM Skills Won’t Be Learned in Classrooms

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New CDC Wastewater Data Shows COVID Indicators Rising Across America in March

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How the CDC Botched Revising Its Mask Guidance for Preschoolers

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Alarming ‘Missed Learning’ Report: COVID Delayed Progress for All Grades in NC

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Why Kids May Be Nervous About Ditching Masks — and 9 Ways to Help Them Adapt

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One Year After States Received $122B for K-12, Districts Struggle to Spend It

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Do Masks in School Work? Pair of Studies May Finally Put Debate To Rest

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Student ‘Mental Health Days’ Catching On In More States

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CT Strategy for Tracking & Reporting How COVID Funds Are Spent Is One to Watch

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As Mask Mandate Lifts, Parents Divided Over Their New Choice

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Governors Shift Away from COVID to Teacher Pay, Mental Health & Culture Wars

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Parent Liaison Toni Baker on Pandemic Loneliness, Cherishing ‘the Little Things’

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Biden: Parents Should Insist Schools Use Relief Funds to Confront Learning Loss

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Are Vaccines Offering Poorer Protection for Younger Children? Pandemic policy up

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Librarians Now Frontline Workers in Combating COVID-19

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New Education Law Would Require Measuring of Student Learning Loss Due to COVID

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Nashville Parent Advocate Sonya Thomas Asks ‘What Has Changed?’

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Biden State of the Union Puts Focus on Students' Education 'Turned Upside-Down'

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Removing Masks From School? One By One, States Unveil Plans to Return to Normal

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CDC: Schools May Drop Masks When COVID Risk is Low or Medium

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