How 100 large and urban districts are attracting and retaining staff
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As part of CRPE’s ongoing review of how large districts are responding to the pandemic and planning to spend their federal COVID-19 relief dollars, we looked into how districts are planning to address staff recruitment and retention challenges.
Analysis: New England districts’ plans for spending federal relief funds
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Our analysis reveals dozens of New England districts’ federal spending priorities as they move forward with pandemic recovery.
Teacher-led reforms in developing countries may help accelerate pandemic recovery
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In some countries where adverse conditions frequently disrupt schools, teachers are often best-positioned to help design – and sustain – lasting improvements.
Amid school closures, Oakland REACH parents created a path into higher-performing schools. Here’s how they did it.
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Lakisha Young writes about building pathways for minoritized students to access higher-performing schools when their current schools were closed during the pandemic.
Building upgrades, SEL: 100 large & urban districts plan their pandemic recovery
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New review of ESSER spending plans shows districts favor facilities improvements, student & teacher supports; investments in staff, parents less clear.
Trends in education innovation from 161 school leaders
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What it looks like to embrace the strengths, passions and needs of each student, particularly those who have been historically underserved.
School mask, vaccine mandates are mostly gone. But what if the virus comes back?
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As 100 large districts gear up for a “normal” year, it’s not clear what will happen should another deadly COVID variant arise.
Remote learning options are shutting down as school reopens in fall 2022
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Large districts more likely to keep pre-pandemic virtual programs than those created when Covid-19 closed schools and forced classes online
Collaboration between CRPE, ASU informs new report on pandemic’s academic impacts
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Carrie Sampson shares how she and other experts made sense of what we know and what we still need to find out about how pandemic-related disruptions affected student learning.
Enrollment drops, staff shortages cause budget whiplash for top school districts
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The contrasting trends underscore the pandemic’s wildly variable impact on districts — and the key impact of enrollment on revenue