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

    January 11, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    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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  • A Surprising Way to Stop Bullying

    January 08, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    Rather than prioritizing punishment, the No-Blame Approach focuses on shifting the social dynamics at the root of bullying, using group interventions to help students communicate and build empathy for one another. One study found the method effective in 87 percent of evaluated bullying cases.

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  • More Kansas teens feel sad or hopeless, but a school program is helping thousands

    December 18, 2023 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Kansas’ Mental Health Intervention Team Program pairs school districts with community health centers who bring therapists to the schools to give students better access to the mental health support they need. Between July 2022 and June 2023, more than 6,000 students participated in the program, and nearly half of participants showed improved behavior after receiving services, while 39 percent had improved attendance and 41 percent improved academically.

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  • 95% of public schools conduct active shooter drills. Are students safer?

    December 05, 2023 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Despite being a largely divided issue, studies show that students at schools that participate in lockdown drills and training report being less fearful of school shootings over time. Currently, 95% of kindergarten through 12th-grade schools across the country participate in some form of mandatory lockdown drill or training that is designed to teach students and staff what to do if there’s an active shooter in the building.

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  • Mansfield City wins districtwide honor for PBIS implementation

    December 04, 2023 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an approach to student behavior that focuses on how well students embody five standards — respect, responsibility, readiness, safety and pride — and awards points based on their behaviors that can be redeemed for rewards. PBIS offers an alternative to the “zero tolerance” student behavior policies that have been known to hurt academic achievement, particularly among students of color. Studies show that schools with a PBIS approach saw classroom removals decrease by 58% and out-of-school suspensions decreased by about half.

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  • Does Mandatory Civic Education Increase Voter Turnout?

    December 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, 18 states have adopted the Civic Education Initiative, which requires high school students to take an exam modeled on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Civics test. However, researchers have determined that voter turnout rates did not increase among the target age group in states that adopted the policy.

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  • CUNY sees ‘enormous' October application spike, as efforts to boost enrollment continue

    November 20, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In an attempt to combat pandemic-era drops in enrollment, the City University of New York network sent personalized letters to seniors graduating from public high schools in the city and waived application fees for these students for the month of October. The network saw its number of applicants jump 386 percent compared to the same month last year.

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  • How a staffing crisis launched Eagle County School District into the affordable housing business

    November 03, 2023 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Eagle, Colorado

    The affordable housing crisis in Eagle, Colorado, is creating a severe staff shortage in local schools. So, the school district is partnering with organizations and developers like Habitat for Humanity to develop a mix of new apartments and houses that will be made available to school employees at affordable prices.

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  • Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.

    October 10, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Schools operated by the United States Department of Defense, which serve the children of military members, are well-funded compared to most public schools, share a centralized structure and curriculum, and have diverse, integrated student populations. Amid pandemic-era learning loss, these schools saw standardized test scores improve while scores in public school districts have for the most part declined.

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  • Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change

    October 07, 2023 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    To improve the percentage of Black and Latino students in advanced math courses, some school districts, such as Hays Consolidated Independent School District, have begun using standardized test scores and performance assessments alongside teacher recommendations to automatically enroll middle schoolers in higher-level classes. The district has seen the share of rising sixth graders enrolled in advanced math rise from 26 percent to 42 percent over three years.

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