The stimulus money should promote fiscal equity across school districts because it is allocated through the Title I formula, so states will disperse more money to districts serving higher-poverty student populations. For those districts receiving the greatest increases, the extra funds will represent at least a 10 percent increase per year over three years on average.
Meanwhile, districts are facing one of the greatest challenges in recent memory reopening schools to students and educators who have spent over a year in quarantine. At this critical juncture, state education agencies have an important role for ensuring the reopening runs efficiently and equitably. As education researchers, we work with state education agencies and national organizations on policy analysis and guidance for school districts. Here we offer three key action steps state education agencies can take to support districts during this difficult time:
A meeting of the Helena Public Schools Board of Trustees came to an abrupt end Tuesday evening because several audience members refused to wear a mask.
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On Aug. 11, Sarah, a cheerleader at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo., turned 16 and passed her driving test. Triumphant, she arrived home to a Happy Birthday sign in the front yard, a treat of beignets from a Creole restaurant and the news that her 17-year-old brother did not have pinkeye, as their mother initially suspected, but Covid-19. They all did, it turned out: Sarah, who asked to be identified by her middle name to protect her privacy; her brother; their 85-year-old grandfather; and their mother, a nurse practitioner who started having trouble breathing two days after her son tested positive. Sarah had thought she would first take advantage of her license to drive herself to cheerleading practice; instead, she used it to take her mother to get a coronavirus test, when her mother realized she was already too weak to drive herself. Then, a week later, Sa