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Eggs & Issues event highlights lack of education progress
The Public School Forum’s annual Eggs & Issues breakfast — an overview with education stakeholders of issues expected to dominate the upcoming legislative session — revisited the organization’s top education issues of 2021 to review what progress had been made in a year.…
North Carolina leaders take steps to end mask mandates for schools
Update Feb. 24, 2022, 3:19 p.m.: Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have allowed parents to opt out of local mask mandates.…
Perspective | The end of the Innovative School District
The 2021-22 enacted budget for North Carolina ended funding for the Innovative School District (ISD) in North Carolina, bringing an ignominious end to the controversial experiment in education undertaken in 2016 in which the lowest-performing schools were given charter-flexibility and turned over to outside operators.…
Perspective | We’ve analyzed 2,100-plus family surveys. This is what we’ve learned.
Over the past two years, almost every aspect of the education system had to shift and adapt for the safety of our students, educators, and families.…
The Editor’s Notes
Superintendent Jeff McDaris lifts up five songs each week to help breathe, reflect, and dedicate. Take a listen. And have a good weekend!
Need to know
Jargon may have turned parents against social and emotional learning
Educators often have a tendency to use confusing terminology when speaking about their field. But jargon may now be playing a role in the politicization of social and emotional learning — often referred to as SEL.... Read the rest
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CDC Plans Update to Indoor Mask Guidance. How Could That Apply to Schools?
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Biden administration promised bankruptcy reforms. So why is it still fighting student loan borrowers in court?
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‘We Have First-Graders Who Can’t Sing the Alphabet Song’: Pandemic Continues to Push Young Readers Off Track, New Data Shows
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How the new banned books panic fits into America’s history of school censorship
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OPINION: Catholic Schools’ Good Covid Year
