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Houston Considering Closing Libraries in Some of its Poorest Schools We instinctively don't like to read about 'bad news' stories as they are upsetting. That said, this sort of news shouldn't be happening in this day and age. Let's hope the City of Houston rethinks this strategy... they should be opening more libraries, not closing existing ones if they care about the quality of living of their citizens. #qualityoflife #educationforall #sustainablecities

According to a 2022 poll by the National Education Association, 55% of educators are considering leaving the field earlier than expected, with the COVID-19 pandemic being a major factor. The consequences of high turnover are far-reaching, impacting students, schools, and the overall quality of education. Amidst these challenges, City Teaching Alliance is making a substantial impact on teacher retention. 85% of our teachers are still in education, and we're proud of that. Our commitment to creating career educators goes beyond preparing teachers for the classroom. We address the root causes of turnover and actively work to build a community where educators thrive and stay.

The key to curbing Ohio’s chronic absenteeism? Community partnerships and early intervention. Check out this article that showcases the challenges Ohio schools and districts face with chronic absenteeism. The Stay in the Game! Attendance Network helps combat this problem by providing resources and incentives to get students to school every day. Read more ➡ https://lnkd.in/guwVVWmU

High need/priority schools must be studied in layers--school, stakeholder(s), and community realms to understand context, connections and inter-connections and how to leverage policy, practice, and institutions to support a path forward for vulnerable/marginalized students and families. This is where bold and needed leadership can happen by being innovative to resolve a big issue/barrier. Please see upcoming innovative work by USC Prof Huriya Jabbar about housing instability and where schools may help for better outcomes.

I'm excited to share a new New America – Education Policy Program brief, co-authored with my colleague Jordan Abbott, on segregation between school districts in the 21st century. Tomorrow marks the 70-year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision striking down school segregation. But school integration efforts made only halting progress after the Brown ruling, and backsliding began in the late 1980s. Today, as the public school system sees both increasing diversity and declining enrollment, the patterns of segregation between school districts are shifting. If we're going to succeed at school integration, we need to target our efforts where students live and learn today. Read the brief for more: https://lnkd.in/gYqreiFt And check out the longer report upon which this builds: https://lnkd.in/gTRcY-Cb For those looking for a short version of the brief's key themes and findings: 📈The percentage of students of color in America's public schools has steadily increased. Even districts that saw overall population decline still saw increases in their numbers of students of color. ⛔ Even though the country's public school enrollees are now majority (53%) students of color, the average school district is still large-majority white (68%). So while the public-school system as a whole is diversifying, students of different races still often attend school in separate districts. 🧱 In fact, the average district border only became more segregating since 2000, marking a racial divide of 11 percentage points then and increasing steadily to14 percentage points in 2021. 🧭 America's most segregating borders have crept westward. In 2000, the 100 biggest racial divides between neighboring districts were all east of the Mississippi. There hasn't been a sea-change, but we do now see some of these borders in the Plains states, West, and Southwest. ⭕ In metro areas, we repeatedly see a pattern in which inner-ring suburbs are diversifying and outer-ring suburbs are remaining or becoming more white. As a result, city school districts are less racially segregated from their immediate suburban neighbors, but inner- and outer-ring suburbs are more segregated from each other than they used to be. Urban/suburban segregation hasn't vanished, but it has frequently moved one level outward. #segregation #integration #diversity #Brownat70 #publiceducation #publicschools #edequity

This LPI case study of Oakland Unified School District explores the district’s path to becoming a full-service community schools district, the challenges and successes it faced, and district-level resources and infrastructure. #CommunitySchools https://lnkd.in/ePGBT4C3

Although residential segregation is slowly declining, many U.S. communities remain both racially and economically segregated. Segregated schools, therefore, often reflect segregated neighborhoods. Studies show that redrawing school attendance zones within school districts could make a substantial number of schools less segregated.

Our recommendations can be found in our second report on the Hidden Valley Elementary School matter. https://bit.ly/49zJMoZ https://lnkd.in/ge8wuyCU

✨Client Spotlight!✨ Collaborating with members of Pritchardville Elementary School to advance student support by leveraging the strengths of teachers, paraeducators, and administrators was a true pleasure. 📚✨✏️ To read the full review, click this link https://lnkd.in/gsHwD8cP #StetsonAndAssociates #InclusiveSchools #LearningResources #Education #SpecialEducation #Equity #MultilingualLearners

Teachers cannot go about their work thinking their classrooms are beacons of justice and antiracism without fully understanding the system students are up against. Teachers must understand the long and continuing legacy of legal and government supported residential segregation, from color-coded maps determining which communities should be offered mortgages and which should not, to neighborhood covenants guaranteeing racial exclusion to home ownership. Teachers must understand how such segregation prevented access to the quintessential American method of generational wealth, the buying of a home, and how that has contributed to the neighborhood wealth disparities that result in educational funding gaps. Let's not just teach our students about justice; let's actively work to create a more just and equitable world for them. https://lnkd.in/grgpEVU8