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Maintaining stability is key to improving student access to quality educational opportunities, especially for students farthest from opportunity. But for the 300,000 children and youth in foster care in the United States each year, stability can be hard to […]
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To launch our inaugural “ECS on the Move” series, we traveled to Alaska, “The Last Frontier,” to learn from communities leading the way in culturally grounded education and student belonging. […]
In recent years, many states have implemented policies related to the Science of Reading in hopes of boosting student achievement. But how do you keep the momentum going after your state passes comprehensive early literacy legislation? […]
States are under pressure to strengthen literacy and numeracy and close persistent opportunity gaps during ongoing educator workforce instability. Recent evidence from Texas’ Model Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work® […]
Many statewide education initiatives stop at vision documents. Recently, the State of Maine set out to go further. A team at the Maine Department of Education, “What would it look like […]
The passage of the H.R. 1, called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, by Congress in July 2025 included the first federal school choice program known as the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program. This legislation allows governors or a designated state official to opt in to a federally […]
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