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Jul 16, 2024 | 
njspotlightnews.org | Jessie Gomez |Chalkbeat Newark
The state has agreed to fund several new facilities to take the place of some of Newark’s oldest school buildings — but the deal still leaves out 20 schools that need to be replaced, district officials say. Through the state’s Schools Development Authority, New Jersey will pay to replace 13 school buildings built before 1920, said Superintendent Roger León during June’s board meeting.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney |Aleksandra Appleton |Jessie Gomez |Dale Mezzacappa
Six of Manhattan’s most popular high schools will set aside 75% of their seats for students who live in the borough for the coming admissions cycle, schools Chancellor David Banks announced Thursday. Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Millennium High School, The Clinton School, NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, The Museum School, and Baruch College Campus High School will all offer the borough priority, Banks said. All six schools also screen students on the basis of grades.
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May 22, 2024 | 
mosaic.nj.com | Jessie Gomez
Los funcionarios de las Escuelas Públicas de Newark dijeron que están buscando ampliar el uso de un nuevo tutor de chatbot de IA (inteligencia artificial) después de una prueba piloto en la Escuela First Avenue.
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May 14, 2024 | 
mosaic.nj.com | Jessie Gomez |Chalkbeat Newark
Los estudiantes latinos en Nueva Jersey representan más de un tercio de la población de las escuelas públicas, pero enfrentan desigualdades educativas como un menor acceso a consejeros escolares, disparidades en el rendimiento académico y bajas tasas de inscripción universitaria, según un nuevo estudio.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Laura D. Testino |Amelia Pak-Harvey |Jessie Gomez |Julian Shen-Berro
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. Shelby County officials are coming under fresh pressure to deal with education deficiencies in the juvenile-justice system, where advocates say not enough young people who are detained are regularly attending school or learning what they need to graduate.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Yesenia Robles |Shanley Rhodes |Alex Zimmerman
Suscríbase al boletín gratuito de Chalkbeat Newark para mantenerse al día con el sistema de escuelas públicas de la ciudad. Read in English. Más de la mitad de las escuelas públicas de Newark ya no están designadas como de bajo rendimiento o que necesitan apoyo luego de una revisión estatal de las escuelas de alta pobreza. Este año, 20 escuelas de Newark salieron de las designaciones estatales para escuelas que necesitaban apoyo debido al bajo rendimiento de los estudiantes, entre otros criterios.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Aleksandra Appleton |Ann Schimke |Christine Ferris
Suscríbase al boletín gratuito de Chalkbeat Newark para mantenerse al día con el sistema de escuelas públicas de la ciudad. Read in English. El mes pasado, el Concejo Municipal de Newark se convirtió en el primero del estado en reducir la edad para votar a 16 años de edad en las elecciones de la junta escolar. Pero su implementación se retrasará hasta las elecciones de 2025 debido a problemas con el registro de votantes, según dieron a conocer funcionarios de la ciudad.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Michelle Noris |Nikia D. Garland |Jessie Gomez
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Leer en español. Families of more than 90,000 eligible children in New York City have not redeemed recent allotments of pandemic food benefits, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat. That means at least $35 million dollars in potential benefits remain unused and could expire early next year, with New Yorkers losing out on the federal funds.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Erica Meltzer |Jessie Gomez |Ann Schimke |Catherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. It’s more important for Colorado schools to prepare students for the workforce than to prepare them to attend college. That’s the opinion of more than 60% of respondents in a recent poll of education attitudes among Colorado voters. Magellan Strategies surveyed a representative group of 1,550 Colorado registered voters in September.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Carly Sitrin |Jessie Gomez |Mila Koumpilova
Community violence, racial injustice, school shootings. Students across America are faced with these realities every day, leaving educators to respond by adapting lesson plans or offer emergency support. Some schools have added social workers, counselors, and other mental health resources to grapple with the toll community trauma is taking on students’ mental health.
