Here are five ways state policymakers and advocates can take advantage of ESSER funding to shape the path for meaningful change in schools and school districts.
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In most K-12 school districts across the country, the beginning of the 2021-22 school year has been different — in some ways, wildly different — from what school and district...
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Collectively, Angela King Smith and Ventura Rodríguez, Jr., bring to the ERS team more than four decades of experience driving equity and excellence in public education
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Finding ways to expand learning time for both students and teachers has become a critical challenge for districts as they reopen schools next fall. Dallas ISD got a fortuitous head start...
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With three rounds of federal education relief funding well underway, districts across the country are busy planning how to use these funds to support recovery and redesign. Taking an...
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Desmond Blackburn, former superintendent of Brevard Public Schools and current CEO of the New Teacher Center, recently joined ERS as a member of the Board of Directors. We talked to...
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New ERS analysis shows that teacher turnover declined during 2020 in six districts we studied. But the same challenges that contributed to teacher shortages before the pandemic...
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Felecia Evans is the principal of Lander Elementary School in Mayfield Heights, OH. Find out how Principal Evans and her team transitioned to a bold new schedule that harnessed...
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