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Special Education Is Broken. Our New Database Can Help Spark Way to Fix It

Ashley Jochim, Alexander Kurz

Advocates who have fought hard battles to preserve the right of children with disabilities to attend public schools have never faced a fight like this one. Last month’s cuts to the Office for Special Education Programs, which all but eliminated the agency charged with enforcing schools’ civil rights obligations, fly in the face of decades of bipartisan support.

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Statewide districts: A way to unleash creative new learning options—and study them as they grow

Robin Lake, Kelly Young

How can school systems possibly find the bandwidth to act on new visions for public education when their leaders are constantly trapped in crisis mode?

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The State of the American Student: Fall 2022 Executive Summary

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This executive summary provides highlights of the primary findings and recommendations from the State of the American Student: Fall 2022 report that draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized during the pandemic.

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The State of the American Student — 2022

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This report draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized over the course of the pandemic.

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The pandemic’s toll on students and society

To accompany CRPE’s inaugural State of the American Student report in 2022, researchers and experts assembled a fast facts one-pager for readers to use as they follow the recovery and reinvention of U.S.

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Education reform that sticks

Paul Hill, Ashley Jochim

Public education depends on expertise, work, money, and cooperation from multiple actors who have different interests and beliefs. These lead to competition and negotiation—in other words, politics.

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Shifting students: Pandemic-era enrollment changes present challenges and opportunities for Washington’s public charters

CRPE’s September 2022 brief, “Shifting students: A look at Washington State school enrollment from 2020 to 2022,” found that fewer students were enrolled in the state’s traditional public schools in 2021-22 than 2019-20, while enrollment in private schools, home schools, and public charter schools increased during that time.

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