When I was a kid, I would sometimes ask my parents for money. Call me crazy, but I didn’t really care how much came from my mom versus how much came from my dad. I cared about whether or not I could afford to buy the latest Tribe Called Quest tape and whether I was
On March 13, 2020, then-President Donald Trump declared the nascent COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency. In April 2023, President Biden officially terminated the national emergency. Four years removed from the official onset of COVID-19, schools and students still face a host of pandemic-related symptoms, including stagnating test scores and stubbornly high chronic absenteeism. In other words, the pandemic is over, but the
Diego is a high school student in Lafayette. Despite his brilliance and creativity, he may not graduate. His challenges are many: unstable housing (he lives with his aunt), learning English, and mental health issues. “Last year he was often absent or visibly overwhelmed with anxiety and depression,” his English teacher Karen Amadon told a committee
The new funds means no district will get less than what it does under the current formula. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to
With less than a month left in the legislative session, how Colorado funds its schools could change. Colorado hasn’t significantly changed the formula used to fund schools in three decades. Multiple attempts to change it have failed, but the duties of schools have changed radically during that time with schools enrolling children with significantly more
Nebraska senators approved the school funding portion of the governor’s property tax relief plan. LB 1331 would increase the amount of foundational aid paid to public school districts.It would go from $1,500 per student to $3,000 per student.The bill would also adjust the school funding formula known as TEEOSA, so districts do not lose out
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Last May, after yet another devastating massacre of students in our American schools – this time in Uvalde, Texas – Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. These elected representatives felt the urgency to act on what is not a