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    • Longtime executive director at The Council of the Great City Schools steps aside

      Longtime executive director at The Council of the Great City Schools steps aside

      POLITICO, December 19, 2019
      Longtime executive director at The Council of the Great City Schools steps aside.pdf 78.72 KB (Last Modified on January 2, 2020)
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    • Michael Casserly, Longstanding Urban Schools Advocate, to Pass the Baton

      Michael Casserly, Longstanding Urban Schools Advocate, to Pass the Baton

      Education Week, December 19, 2019
      Michael Casserly.pdf 103.66 KB (Last Modified on December 20, 2019)
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    • Council gives Providence recommendations on improving education for English language learners

      Council gives Providence recommendations on improving education for English language learners

      Providence Journal, October 1, 2019
      The Providence journal.pdf 120.27 KB (Last Modified on October 2, 2019)
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    • These School Boards Wanted to Be More Effective so They Went to Harvard

      These School Boards Wanted to Be More Effective so They Went to Harvard

      Education Week, August 1, 2019
      These School Boards Wanted to Be More Effective so They Went to Harvard.pdf 96.65 KB (Last Modified on August 2, 2019)
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    • How Dallas ISD can become an urban success story, with Harvard's help

      How Dallas ISD can become an urban success story, with Harvard's help

      Dallas Morning News, July 31, 2019
      How Dallas ISD can become an urban success story.pdf 127.59 KB (Last Modified on July 31, 2019)
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    • 'Nation's Report Card' to Get Trimmed, Four Subjects Dropped

      'Nation's Report Card' to Get Trimmed, Four Subjects Dropped

      Education Week, July 24
      Nation.pdf 124.17 KB (Last Modified on July 25, 2019)
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    • Education, Civil Rights Groups Celebrate as Trump Drops Legal Fight on Controversial Census Citizens

      Education, Civil Rights Groups Celebrate as Trump Drops Legal Fight on Controversial Census Citizens

      The 74, July 15, 2019
      Education.pdf 77.83 KB (Last Modified on July 16, 2019)
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    • Supreme Court Sets Aside Plan to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census

      Supreme Court Sets Aside Plan to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census

      Education Week, June 27, 2019
      Supreme Court Sets Aside Plan to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census.pdf 165.76 KB (Last Modified on June 27, 2019)
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    • Supreme Court blocks citizenship question on census that could hit school budgets hard — for now

      Supreme Court blocks citizenship question on census that could hit school budgets hard — for now

      Chalkbeat, June 27, 2019
      Supreme Court.pdf 107.21 KB (Last Modified on June 27, 2019)
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    • Ensuring accurate Census is feds’ job,

      Ensuring accurate Census is feds’ job,

      Miami Herald, June 21, 2019
      Ensuring accurate Census is feds.pdf 83.44 KB (Last Modified on June 21, 2019)
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    • Supreme Court weighs citizenship census question

      Supreme Court weighs citizenship census question

      Chalkbeat, June 18, 2019
      Chalkbeat Colorado.pdf 99.3 KB (Last Modified on June 19, 2019)
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    • New Report Spotlights English Learners in Urban Districts

      New Report Spotlights English Learners in Urban Districts

      New America, June, 18, 2019
      New Report Spotlights English Learners in Urban Districts.pdf 184.35 KB (Last Modified on June 19, 2019)
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    • Immigrants Brought Riches to Urban Schools. Now They’re in the Shadows

      Immigrants Brought Riches to Urban Schools. Now They’re in the Shadows

      NY Times, June 15, 2019
      Immigrants Brought Riches to Urban Schools.pdf 112.69 KB (Last Modified on June 17, 2019)
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    • APS High School Graduate Wins National Math and Science Scholars Award

      APS High School Graduate Wins National Math and Science Scholars Award

      Atlanta Daily World, June 10, 2019

      APS High School Graduate Wins National Math and Science Scholars Award.pdf 94.19 KB (Last Modified on June 12, 2019)
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    • The High Cost of Undercounting

      The High Cost of Undercounting

      U.S. News and World Report, June 7, 2019
      The High Cost of.pdf 143.1 KB (Last Modified on June 7, 2019)
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    • Six Miami students make pitches and win $10,000 each

      Six Miami students make pitches and win $10,000 each

      Miami Herald, May 22, 2019
      Shark Tank.pdf 86.38 KB (Last Modified on May 23, 2019)
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    • An audit of Seattle schools’ transportation arm finds ‘lack of urgency to change’?

      An audit of Seattle schools’ transportation arm finds ‘lack of urgency to change’?

      Seattle Times, May 21, 2019
      Seattle Times.pdf 143.12 KB (Last Modified on May 22, 2019)
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    • JCPS approves central office overhaul, but Pollio is looking to more ambitious savings plan

      JCPS approves central office overhaul, but Pollio is looking to more ambitious savings plan

      Louisville Courier-Journal, May 15, 2019
      JCPS approves central office overhaul.pdf 118.06 KB (Last Modified on May 17, 2019)
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    • Of Mice and Frustration

      Of Mice and Frustration

      Columbus Dispatch, April 30, 2019
      Of mice and frustration.pdf 133.48 KB (Last Modified on May 1, 2019)
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    • How the Job of Supervising Principals is Changing

      How the Job of Supervising Principals is Changing

      Education Week, April 25, 2019
      How the Job of Supervising Principals Is Changing.pdf 135.3 KB (Last Modified on April 26, 2019)
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    • Supreme Court Hears Case Watched by Educators on Census' Citizenship Question

      Supreme Court Hears Case Watched by Educators on Census' Citizenship Question

      Education Week, April 23, 2019
      Supreme Court Hears Case Watched by Educators on Census.pdf 94.01 KB (Last Modified on April 23, 2019)
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    • JPS superintendent: Reorganizing administrative offices, leadership to save $1M

      JPS superintendent: Reorganizing administrative offices, leadership to save $1M

      Clarion Ledger, April 22, 2019
      OPINION.pdf 171.14 KB (Last Modified on April 22, 2019)
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    • K-12 Aid at Stake in Suit Over Census' Citizenship Question

      K-12 Aid at Stake in Suit Over Census' Citizenship Question

      Education Week, April 16, 2019
      Aid at Stake in Suit Over Census Citizenship Question.pdf 127.5 KB (Last Modified on April 17, 2019)
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    • St. Louis schools will return to local control July 1 after 12 years under state control

      St. Louis schools will return to local control July 1 after 12 years under state control

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 17, 2019
      St. Louis schools will return to local control July 1 after 12 years under state control.pdf 132.36 KB (Last Modified on April 17, 2019)
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    • School Districts Get Creative to Fill English-Learner Teaching Vacancies, Survey Finds

      School Districts Get Creative to Fill English-Learner Teaching Vacancies, Survey Finds

      Education Week, April 11, 2019
      School Districts Get Creative to Fill English.pdf 119.64 KB (Last Modified on April 11, 2019)
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