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Weekly NewsBrief 1/11/21 - 1/17/21

  Biden Proposes $175 Billion to Reopen Schools – By Lauren Camera, US News PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE  Biden is pitching a $175 billion plan to get children back into K-12 classrooms and bols...

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Weekly NewsBrief 1/4/21 - 1/10/21

  More Evidence Suggests In-Person School is Safe, as Long as Virus Is Controlled – By Lauren Camera, US News and World Report REOPENING SCHOOLS FOR in-person learning did not result in ...

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Weekly NewsBrief 12/28/20 - 1/3/21

  Secretary DeVos Releases Statement on Signing of COVID Relief Package – US Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released the following statement on the sig...

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Weekly NewsBrief 12/14/20 - 12/20/20

  Connecticut Gives Every Student a Computer and Home Internet to Close the Digital Divide – by Stephen NooNoo, EdSurge Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans  lacked a...

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Weekly NewsBrief 12/7/20 - 12/13/20

  ‘There has been a learning loss’: NYC Education Department launches plan to address ‘COVID achievement gap’ – By Michael Elsen Rooney, NY Daily News The city Education Department is la...

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Weekly NewsBrief 11/30/20 - 12/6/20

  ‘Stretched thin’: Superintendent survey highlights concerns with teacher burnout, learning loss – By Erica Metzler, Chalkbeat Young students are struggling to learn to read, and teache...

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Weekly NewsBrief 11/23/20 - 11/29/20

  New Indiana law puts pressure on high schools to reduce home-school withdrawals – By Dylan Peers McCoy, Chalkbeat One in five Indiana high schools are facing scrutiny that could lead t...

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Weekly NewsBrief 11/16/20 - 11/22/20

  Millions of Students Have Limited Contact With Teachers – By Kaia Hubbard, US News and World Report According to a  report  by USAFacts, about 65% of households with children used onli...

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Weekly NewsBrief 11/9/20 - 11/15/20

  PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks – By Jill Barshay, the Hechinger Report How vulnerable is student data at U.S. public schools? That’s a critical quest...

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Weekly NewsBrief 11/2/20 - 11/8/20

  Washington is buying $24M worth of computer technology for students – By Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times Washington state will use $24 million from its share of the federal CARES Ac...

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Weekly NewsBrief 10/26/20 - 11/1/20

  NYC schools will offer flexibility on grades. Are the changes here to stay? - By Reema Amin and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York City officials said Monday that schools cannot giv...

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Weekly NewsBrief 10/19/20 - 10/25/20

  Idaho families can get thousands to help with education costs – By Eric Grossarth, East Idaho News Idaho families can receive up to $3,500 to purchase or receive reimbursement for educ...

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Weekly NewsBrief 10/12/20 - 10/18/20

  Up to 1 million California students may still lack connectivity during distance learning – By Sydney Johnson, EdSource Nearly two months into the school year, hundreds of thousands o...

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Weekly NewsBrief 10/5/20 - 10/11/20

  Million Girls Moonshot aims to bring 1M girls into school STEM programs – By Shawna De La Rosa – Education Dive As schools continue working to better engage girls in science, technol...

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Weekly NewsBrief 9/28/20 - 10/4/20

  Secretary DeVos Announces $24 Million In Grants to Expand Education Choice for Native American Students – From the U.S. Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVo...

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Weekly NewsBrief 9/21/20 - 9/27/20

  Thousands of students are missing from Chicago’s virtual classrooms. Here’s the plan to find them – By Yana Kunichoff, Chalkbeat Chicago Chicago Public Schools said that 49,000 student...

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Weekly NewsBrief 9/14/20 - 9/20/20

  How governors are spending CARES Act education funds – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Many governors have prioritized strengthening online and remote learning in their stat...

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Weekly NewsBrief 9/7/20 - 9/13/20

  Gov. Jared Polis launches $32.7 million fund to incubate ideas to improve student learning during the pandemic – By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado To continue the battle against fa...

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Weekly NewsBrief 8/31/20 - 9/6/20

  Connecticut schools to get additional $160M in state funds – By Krista Birkeland, District Administration As schools across the nation begin to open for the 2020-21 academic year, on...

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Weekly NewsBrief 8/24/20 - 8/30/20

  State Supreme Court orders Newsom to respond to Orange County Board of Education petition to reopen schools – By Sara Cardine, LA Times The Orange County Board of Education’s legal bat...

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