Author: BelieveAgain
President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student-athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn’t enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite them and advance its agenda more quickly.Even as the Biden administration…
School funding in the United States is wildly complex, perennially inequitable, and frequently misunderstood. A slew of reports and data published in recent weeks offer fresh evidence.Districts annually get funding—roughly $900 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to the most recent federal data—from three main sources: local taxpayers, state appropriations, and the federal government. The policies, formulas, and political conditions informing dollar amounts vary significantly from source to source and from place to place.Nationwide figures tell one important story about K-12 school funding—how much money schools are spending in the aggregate. But digging deeper reveals far more stories that vary from…
Title: Language Barriers for Spanish-speaking Parents Participating in School Activities: 201819 Description: This Data Point examines the barriers due to speaking a language other than English faced by Spanish-speaking families of enrolled students when they try to participate in their students school activities. it also explores the language services that are provided by schools to Spanish-speaking parents. This Data Point uses data collected from the Parent and Family Involvement Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:2019). Online Availability: Cover Date: …
I’ve been making annual education predictions for well over a decade now, and nobody would be rich if they bet on their accuracy.However, just as my basketball-playing motto (to the chagrin of my teammates) is “I only remember the baskets that I make,” I continue to make these predictions because I only really remember the ones that are accurate.Here’s what my crystal ball tells me for 2025 (and it’s not a pretty picture). Let me know what you think and make your own predictions, too, by responding to me on Twitter (now X) @Larryferlazzo, on BlueSky larryferlazzo.bsky.social/, or via email…
Whew. Presidential pinch-hitting, brat summer, literacy lawsuits, DEI drama, awful TIMSS scores. . . . It’s been quite a year. Before we turn the page, it’s always worth taking a moment to reflect on some of the highs and lows. In that spirit, I like to revisit the RHSU columns I penned during the year and surface the top 10—as determined by readership, feedback, and personal preference.There are always a few pieces that don’t necessarily make the cut of “top 10” but still seem to deserve a mention. This year, those include How Bad Journalism Encourages Bad Education Research (March…
Last week, the Seattle school district received a check for close to $8 million from the Internal Revenue Service. That money represents 40 percent of the total cost of the recently-completed installation of energy-efficient geothermal heating systems in three school buildings.The district was eligible for that money because of a combination of two Biden-era programs. One is a series of federal tax credits for individuals and businesses that install clean-energy systems or purchase electric vehicles. The other created a direct-pay program that allows school districts and other governments and organizations to apply for those tax credits, even though they don’t…
Improving school lunches might seem like a straightforward, wholesome endeavor—at-home in a first lady’s platform alongside anti-bullying efforts and encouraging kids to read—but veterans of the school lunch wars know changing federal food policy is not as simple as swapping tator tots for carrot sticks.The benefits of serving healthier food—a primary source of nutrition for many children from low-income households—must be balanced with the practical limits of school cafeterias, and the sometimes finicky palates of the kids they serve.School food programs typically have their own budgets separate from their districts’, serving thousands of meals a day on very tight margins.…
Title: Participation in School Activities by Spanish- and English-speaking Parents of Enrolled Students: 19992019 Description: This Data Point examines parents participation in various school-related activities among primarily English- and primarily Spanish-speaking families between 1999 and 2019, using data collected from the Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:1999-2019). Online Availability: Cover Date: November 2024 Web Release: November 25, 2024 Print Release: November 25, 2024 …
There was plenty to celebrate in public education this year, but not all was rosy. 2024-12-16 08:58:00 Source link
Introduction The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a comprehensive international survey of adult skills. It measures adults’ proficiency across a range of key information-processing skills and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating countries. PIAAC is administered every 10 years and has had two cycles so far. For PIAAC Cycle 1, the United States participated in three rounds of data collection between 2011 and 2018. A total of 38 countries participated in these three rounds of PIAAC Cycle 1. More detailed information can be found in the PIAAC…