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Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2021
Hold-harmless provisions in state aid formulas are meant to restrict declines in revenues for school districts. They may take several forms, including limits on the changes in state aid from year to year, supplemental funding for districts with declining enrollment, alternatives for calculating the state aid amount, or use of past enrollments in…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts, Declining Enrollment
Charis, Kimberly – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2020
As citizen boards who must be nonpartisan to be effective, state boards of education are uniquely placed to help eliminate the political divides that impede decisive action to end inequities in learning. Three state boards of education and education agency staff--in Nebraska, New York, and North Carolina--committed to joining a National…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Equal Education, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change
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Loy, David P.; Autry, Cari; Janke, Megan C.; Fish, Matthew; Burnworth, Rebecca; Whisner, Wendy; Harrell, Lauren – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
In response to academic and healthcare restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pirate Wellness Program (PWP), a recreational therapy telehealth program, was developed and implemented in May of 2020 by East Carolina University Recreational Therapy (RT) faculty to provide virtual services and interventions to quarantined individuals with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Wellness, Health Promotion
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Aslan, Sinem; Li, Qi; Bonk, Curtis J.; Nachman, Lama – Online Learning, 2022
Since the spring of 2020, many early childhood education programs (pre-K, K, 1st, and 2nd grades) had to close as governments around the world took serious measures to slow down the transmission of COVID-19. As a result, the pandemic forced many early childhood teachers to start teaching online and continue supporting their students remotely.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Teachers
Kashen, Julie; Minoff, Elisa; Coccia, Alex – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2022
The exclusion of caregivers and other stakeholders from conversations about child care policy design exacerbates inequities in the sector. By design, women, people of color, parents, people without wealth or high incomes, and child care providers are severely underrepresented in positions of power, including the government positions that influence…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care, Stakeholders, COVID-19
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2021
Thanks to quick actions on the part of federal, state and local leaders, North Carolina's public schools have been able to develop incredible innovations to meet the needs of children and families during COVID-19. As the transition from COVID relief to COVID recovery begins, the Public School Forum of NC recommends several actions that will…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
Holder, Eric H., Jr. – American Educator, 2020
Over the past decade, the students of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, the largest historically Black public university in the country, were forced into the spotlight of a national fight over voting rights that has been profoundly reshaping our democracy. During the 2018 midterm elections,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Voting, Democracy, Elections
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2022
The intersection in 2020 of the new COVID-19 pandemic with the ongoing pandemic of anti-black racism exacerbated existing injustices as well as caused and revealed new inequities in US higher education. Because inequities in assessment in particular were intensified by these twin pandemics, faculty at several US colleges revised assessment…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Student Evaluation
Xia, Samantha; Hefyan, Mervett; McCormick, Meghan; Goldberg, Maya; Swinth, Emily; Huang, Sharon – MDRC, 2023
Existing research has found that home visiting programs for families with young children can improve children's development and strengthen caregivers' and families' well-being. However, the pandemic created numerous challenges for home visiting programs, forcing them to deliver services online or in a hybrid format and to adapt the content of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Home Visits, Program Effectiveness, Pandemics
Teon Hayes; Elizabeth Lower-Basch – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2023
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people with low incomes avoid hunger and afford food. It stimulates the economy, improves individuals' success at school and work, and promotes better health. SNAP's Employment and Training (E&T) program is designed to assist participants in gaining skills, training, or work experience…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Employment Programs, Job Training
Lauren Fox; Sara Howell; Ashley Kazouh; Elizabeth Paul; Jessica Peacock – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2023
In North Carolina and across the nation, districts and schools struggle to recruit and retain effective teachers, especially teachers of color. For more than a decade, declining enrollments in educator preparation programs and rises in teacher vacancies and attrition rates, coupled with population growth and increasing demand for teachers, have…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Minority Group Teachers, Teaching (Occupation)
Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Rich, Patrick; Kim, James S.; Gilbert, Joshua B. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
The current study aimed to explore the COVID-19 impact on the reading achievement growth of Grade 3-5 students in a large urban school district in the U.S. and whether the impact differed by students' demographic characteristics and instructional modality. Specifically, using administrative data from the school district, we investigated to what…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Karen Charlton Barbee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many faculty were forced to teach online with inadequate training or resources, affecting student academic performance because of COVID-19. The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive, embedded, single-site case study is to describe teaching online and the use of Microsoft Teams as a student engagement tool as perceived by the faculty in a rural…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, COVID-19, Middle School Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
Curtin, Dawn M.; Wilson, Linda L. – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
Early Head Start's intensive home- and center-based comprehensive services include proven significant impacts on young children's development and on parent's knowledge and behavior. However, how does a program continue delivery of supports and resources in a global health crisis? This article presents an overview of The Enola Group Early Head…
Descriptors: Creativity, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disadvantaged Youth
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Rice, Mary Frances; Ortiz, Kelsey R. – Online Learning, 2021
An emerging research base has highlighted various roles and responsibilities that parents of students with disabilities accept when they enroll their children in online schools. Since finding and using online texts and using various programs and applications that require search and evaluation skills to do work are typical for online learning, it…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent Student Relationship
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