Author: BelieveAgain
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…
Will immigration agents carry out arrests and raids at schools?It’s a question on the minds of educators in districts and schools with large numbers of immigrant students as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month with a pledge to carry out mass deportations.And it’s a question that grew more urgent Wednesday following a news report that Trump plans to rescind a longstanding policy that has discouraged immigration agents from carrying out enforcement activities in places considered to be “protected areas”—schools; hospitals; churches; and other places where children gather, such as bus stops, after-school programs, and child care facilities.NBC…
Lynne Graziano is a senior analyst at Bellwether Education Partners. Earlier this year, she co-authored the report “The Edge of Seventeen: What Does It Mean To Be a Young Adult in America in 2024?” The report explores the notion of “legal coherence”: How the nation’s various states define legal adulthood in various realms, and what the results mean for youth and young adults. Given intense concern about the mental health and behavior of youth and young adults, this seemed a timely topic—especially for educators, who interact with this age group daily and might wonder how the legal limits of adulthood…
Last month, Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota, introduced a bill to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. In a public statement explaining his rationale for the legislation, Rounds decried federal control of education. “Any grants or funding from the Department are only given to states and educational institutions in exchange for adopting the one-size-fits-all standards put forth by the Department,” the statement says in part.President-elect Donald Trump has voiced support for this idea, such as when he announced former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon as his selection for secretary of education. “We will send Education BACK…
President Donald Trump’s proposal to axe the U.S. Department of Education appears unlikely to find sufficient support to clear procedural hurdles, even in an incoming Congress under Republican control.But the steps Trump—and his first education secretary, Betsy DeVos—took to diminish the agency during the president’s first term had a real impact on states and districts.Experts expect Trump and his incoming education secretary, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, to make similar moves this time around—and perhaps go even further.In fact, Trump signaled that he will make reshaping the federal bureaucracy a major priority of this second term by appointing two billionaires—Elon…
President Donald Trump might not be able to fulfill his oft-repeated campaign promise to obliterate the U.S. Department of Education.But there is plenty the incoming administration can do to kneecap the main federal agency responsible for K-12 schools, both critics and supporters of scaling back the department say.When Trump and his allies say they want to get rid of the Education Department, they’re really talking about the underlying principle of “shifting control and power away from the federal bureaucracy, back to local schools and back to families,” said Jim Blew, who served as an assistant secretary in the department during…