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This county launched an ambitious child care effort 7 years ago. Here's what happened.

Ann Schimke

February 02, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

The Child Care 8000 initiative set out to increase the number of available child care slots in Mesa County, Colorado by encouraging coordination, streamlining the licensing process, and expanding training opportunities. Though the campaign did not reach its goal, it did help add roughly 800 child care slots and improve the quality of existing programs.

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New Hampshire Teens Provide Weekend Snacks and Meals to Hungry Peers

Jim Fields Emmeline Zhao

February 01, 2024 |

The 74 |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

Fueled by Kids provides food for students who rely on school lunches to ensure they have food to eat during the weekends. Fueled by Kids curates bags of food that are easy for the students to prepare themselves and offers them at more than 20 schools, serving more than 1,000 students.

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Minnesota schools testing electric buses find benefits and barriers

Dan Gunderson

January 30, 2024 |

MPR News |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

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

Yesenia Robles

January 25, 2024 |

Chalkbeat |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

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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AI is helping school districts navigate bus driver shortages

Alex Fitzpatrick

January 25, 2024 |

Axios |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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

Jewél Jackson

January 23, 2024 |

Illinois Answers Project |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

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

Becky Z. Dernbach

January 23, 2024 |

Sahan Journal |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

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

Alison Novak

January 17, 2024 |

Seven Days |

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Response Location: United States, Montpelier, Vermont

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

Carly Sitrin

January 16, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Philadelphia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Elizabeth McGowan

January 11, 2024 |

Energy News Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Virginia

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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