[ad_1] QUINCY – While the rest of the city’s residents were finishing their coffee Friday morning, Quincy High School’s culinary students were already halfway through cooking a full meal to feed the area’s homeless. The few culinary arts students who still attend in-person classes at the high school whipped up a lunch of chickenContinue Reading
[ad_1] This school year, schools identified around 420,000 fewer homeless students than last year. That would normally be a hopeful sign, but not during the pandemic. Advocates say there aren’t fewer students experiencing homelessness. It’s just that schools can’t find them. Click here to listen to the story: Deb FoustContinue Reading
[ad_1] PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Cars spun out in Bustleton Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia early Tuesday morning as snow plows worked to clear streets and parking lots. The area continued to be pummeled with snow which has not stopped falling since Sunday, accumulating 6.8″ in the city. Bustleton Avenue remained snowpacked,Continue Reading
[ad_1] President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas. “We’re going to see kids fall further and further behind,Continue Reading
[ad_1] By Carolyn Jones, EdSource After years of steadily rising numbers of homeless youth in California, schools saw a significant drop during the last school year in the official tally of homeless students — leading some advocates to warn that thousands of students may have gone uncounted during the pandemicContinue Reading
[ad_1] Julie Leopo/EdSource Schools are required under federal law to identify and help students who are living in motels, cars, shelters or doubled up with other families. Julie Leopo/EdSource Schools are required under federal law to identify and help students who are living in motels, cars, shelters or doubled upContinue Reading
[ad_1] Faith Bongiorno began her teaching career as an “art-on-the-cart” educator. But that changed one day when her son told her he wanted to participate in FIRSTⓇ LEGOⓇ League, a robotics program created through an alliance betweenFIRSTⓇ (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and LEGOⓇ Education. Curiosity piqued,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Housing Hope is proposing developing a complex to house the Edmonds School District’s homeless students on the 1.8-acre, district-owned Scriber Baseball field, located along 58th Avenue West and adjacent to Cedar Valley Community School in Lynnwood. (Image courtesy of the Edmonds School District) A proposed partnership between an EverettContinue Reading
[ad_1] Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Amy Clarke, director of student services and special education at Middletown Public Schools, gives teachers a training about social emotional learning for the fall semester on Thursday, August 20 at Middletown High School. Meeting students’ social and emotional needs became more crucial after many studentsContinue Reading
[ad_1] Oregon’s high school graduation rate increased for the 2019-2020 school year, even as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic derailed students’ plans for the last few months of the school year, new data from the Oregon Department of Education shows. The four-year graduation rate reached a new high of 82.6%, topping the previousContinue Reading