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Demystifying the role of the school board director

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They also support and evaluate the superintendent, who is their only employee. That direction should align with the community’s desires as well as the needs of the students. School boards lay out big, long-term priorities such as strategic planning, budgetary goals, and financial stability.

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Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster ‘Digital Equity’ in Communities?

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The Orangeburg approach is an example of the role higher education could play in helping to get millions of people of all backgrounds, income levels and parts of the country connected to high-quality internet in order to more-fully participate in the modern world—a concept that some advocates have started to call “ digital equity.”

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One State Rolled Out a Promising Child Care Model. Now Others Are Replicating It.

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With this change, the program now has two more families participating, both receiving a 33 percent discount on care, instead of the full 66 percent. In Kentucky, as in many states in recent years, employers have begun to recognize the relationship between inaccessible, unaffordable child care and labor market participation, Aull explains.