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  • Kids In America Are Missing School Because They Can't Afford Toothpaste And Tampons

    May 09, 2019 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Maynardville, Tennessee

    A lack of access to basic personal hygiene necessities will hinder anyone's everyday life, but it especially impacts children that have to attend school where they are often bullied because of it. To provide these children with a better educational environment, teachers are implementing "hygiene closets" that are stocked with items such as soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and tampons.

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  • SFUSD program intervenes early to keep kids out of special ed for behavior

    May 09, 2019 |

    KALW |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the United States, African American students are disproportionately placed into special ed tracks based on behavior issues. In an attempt to reverse this trend, the Shoestring Children's Center helps kids aged three to five, many of whom are black, learn to focus and manage their emotions.

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  • How having access to laundry facilities is changing the school experience for many kids

    May 07, 2019 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To curb chronic absences, a Denver school joined the growing number of schools nationally who have installed a washing machine within their walls to reduce stigmas and allow students to focus on learning. "Nationally, Whirpool says, 85 percent of high-risk students in elementary schools increased their attendance in 2017-18 with the help of their program."

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  • An Unusual Way to Bridge the Town-Gown Divide

    May 01, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Muncie, Indiana

    Ball State University and Muncie, Indiana, are forging an inventive town-gown partnership. In 2018, the school became the first public university to assume responsibility for the city's public schools. The transition has involved intentional community engagement and sparked community enthusiasm that had waned in recent decades and resulted in a dramatically declining school population.

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  • From dozens of suspensions to one: How this Colorado school stopped removing young children

    April 30, 2019 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Schools in Denver's suburbs are reducing out-of-school suspensions by training teachers to use restorative justice practices and teach students social-emotional skills. Now, a new bill proposes limiting out-of-school suspensions for students statewide.

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  • Beyond test scores: Colorado experiments create alternatives for rating schools

    April 29, 2019 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    For the past four years, several rural Colorado school districts have experimented with alternative forms of evaluation that don't rely solely on the results of educational testing. Now, a proposed bill, with wide support, would provide financial and logistical support to these pilots.

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  • San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse.

    April 25, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's choice-based enrollment process, once heralded as a solution to the city's segregated schools, is now called "a cautionary tale" by most local parents. The system gives preference to residents of neighborhoods with low test scores. Among other issues, such as incomplete transit options, this system fails to account for rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods where affluent residents are increasingly living in historically low test score zones.

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  • LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It's Showing Promise.

    April 12, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    One year after LeBron James' I Promise School opened its doors, its students, picked for being some of the worst performing in Akron, Ohio, have shown significant improvement on district assessments. I Promise is funded like other public schools, but also benefits from an additional $600,000 from the James' foundation for more teaching staff, after-school programs, and a family resource center with G.E.D. preparation and career counseling. Teachers say these add-ons have been the key to the school's early success.

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  • New Jersey high school opens doors every Friday night to keep students off streets

    April 05, 2019 |

    WABC-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    In Newark, NJ, kids are opting to stay late at school on Friday nights to hang out. This is possible because of West Side High School’s Lights On program, created to give students structured entertainment and to protect them from gun violence and crime.

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  • Austin is training staff to help parents find affordable housing so that kids don't have to switch schools

    March 28, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Austin Independent School District created a system to prevent low-income families from being displaced by rising rents around the city. The system, which includes a website that tracks affordable housing options and a network of staff ready to help families, allows students to stay in-district and progress their learning within the same community. In gentrifying Austin, low-income families are getting pushed out. The district trained staff to help them find new, cheaper homes close to school.

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