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5 days ago | datiak12.io | Malachi Barrett |Christine Ferretti

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat and BridgeDetroit. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newslettersMACKINAC ISLAND – Beyond its struggles with chronic absenteeism and academics, another ongoing challenge for Detroit’s public school district is a “disruptive” proliferation of marijuana.

1 week ago | datiak12.io | Rebecca Redelmeier

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newslettersThe Philadelphia Board of Education was scheduled to consider and vote on an agreement Thursday with the U.S. Department of Justice related to an investigation into how it manages asbestos in its buildings.

2 weeks ago | datiak12.io | Mark Keierleber

This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to eliminate the Education Department and ordered officials to reinstate the jobs of thousands of federal employees who were laid off en masse earlier this year. Judge Myong J.

2 weeks ago | datiak12.io | Emily Woods

This story about principals and community schools was produced byThe Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s weekly newsletter. In the never-ending quest to improve our country’s education system, we often turn to policymakers, researchers and district administrators for solutions.

3 weeks ago | datiak12.io | Lauren Smith Camera

This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. When it comes to access, readiness and placement in Algebra I, states and districts across the country have ping-ponged between extremes for decades, often without clear evidence to back up drastic and frequent policy shifts.