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  • Minnesota schools testing electric buses find benefits and barriers

    After adding electric school buses to its fleet with the help of grant funding, Morris Area Schools saw its fuel costs drop from about $3 per gallon to the equivalent of about $1 a gallon. Each bus is estimated to help cut roughly 140 tons of carbon emissions over its lifetime.

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  • AI is helping school districts navigate bus driver shortages

    HopSkipDrive is a transportation company with an artificial intelligence tool that helps schools across the United States optimize their bus routes around driver shortages. The company uses a combination of traditional bus rides and passenger cars operated by its drivers to improve on-time arrival rates and reduce absenteeism.

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  • Funding to help Spanish-speaking child care providers get licensed in Colorado set to end

    The Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s bilingual support team helps guide Spanish-speaking residents through the process of applying for a child care license, providing resources and training materials in applicants’ native language. The team is currently working with 69 professionals who are already licensed as well as 25 Spanish speakers in the midst of the application process.

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  • St. Paul school district halts enrollment slide. The secret: listening to immigrant communities.

    To address enrollment decline in St. Paul Public Schools, the district invested in language and cultural programs that cater to local immigrant communities. After four years of implementing Hmong, Spanish, Mandarin, and East African language and cultural programs, student enrollment is now rising.

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  • Could a Ride-Sharing Network Help Get Chicago Students to School?

    To help fill transportation gaps left by bus driver shortages, school districts are partnering with HopSkipDrive, a network that leverages vetted rideshare drivers to take students to and from classes and activities. The company is working with 600 school districts, nonprofits, and agencies across the country.

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  • Boys Wonder: Montpelier High School Students Dig Into What It Means to Be a Man

    At Montpelier High School in Vermont, students can sign up for Healthy Masculinity, a course focused on exploring traditional ideas and pressures around masculinity and providing a space for boys to be open and vulnerable with their emotions. Enrolled students say the class has shifted their mindset and helped them learn to speak up about harmful stereotypes in their everyday lives.

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  • 'It's very Philly, and it's very in your face.' Volunteers knock on doors to aid literacy

    Through community events, direct outreach, and resource sharing, Philadelphia’s reading captains help local kids build early literacy skills while supporting families to make reading part of their daily home life.

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  • Lab 4.0: Transformando la formación de ingenieros hacia la Revolución Tecnológica

    El Laboratorio 4.0 incorpora tecnologías avanzadas como la inteligencia artificial, la realidad virtual y la Internet de las cosas (IoT) para aumentar la educación de futuros ingenieros con el aprendizaje interactivo y la resolución de problemas. Los estudiantes del Laboratorio 4.0 se gradúan con mejores posibilidades de conseguir empleo.

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  • Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

    Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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  • Vermont's Prison Education Programs Give Incarcerated People a Second Chance to Learn

    People incarcerated in Vermont correctional facilities have the option to participate in education programs ranging from foundational skills classes and high school completion credits to technical courses and community college offerings, and the agency puts particular emphasis on literacy development. More than 600 people are currently enrolled and about 25 earn their diplomas each year.

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