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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

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This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–it’s a waste of time; all we’re doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed.

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Districts put DEI into action

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This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–its a waste of time; all were doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed.

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When School Districts Buy From Amazon, Are They Getting the Best Deal? Maybe Not.

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Communities, a cooperative purchasing program for local governments and school districts, with the option to renew for three additional two year periods. The report authors write that U.S. To test that assumption, the authors did a little research. In 2017, Amazon won an five-year public sector contract with U.S.

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A Playbook for Getting Millions of Unconnected Households Online

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Any family with a child receiving free or reduced-price lunch can ask the school to write a letter confirming as much, proving that they qualify for the ACP discounts. EducationSuperHighway tested this strategy in two towns in Massachusetts, Worcester and Springfield. Schools can verify ACP eligibility for families.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

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Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager to build on, having helped to write and lobby for a statewide bill that sought to put a student board member in each Kentucky school district.

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An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry

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It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role. They write you checks of the biggest size—bigger than any other industry—if you have solutions, but you can't come to them without a solution. You have to go after fixing problems.

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What’s Next for DoEd

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Because Congress, the one who writes laws, creates programs. During COVID, when we had gone into that great remote beta test of education and people trying to figure. And I think what we’re going to see is an effort to move. Most of those functions are to other departments than the Department of Education. Neal McCluskey Right.

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