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USDA estimates 21 million kids will get summer food benefits through new program in 2024

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“No child in this country should go hungry,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview with The Associated Press. “They certainly shouldn’t go hungry because they lose access to nutritious school meals during the summer months.”

Investigation into police failures during the Uvalde school shooting will continue into 2024

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The possibility of criminal charges against some of the nearly 400 officers who rushed to Robb Elementary School but waited more than an hour to confront and kill the shooter has hung over Uvalde since state lawmakers faulted law enforcement at every level.

These kids want to go to school. The main obstacle? Paperwork

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A serious problem has presented itself. A corrosive combination of onerous re-enrollment requirements, arcane paperwork and the everyday obstacles of poverty—a nonworking phone, a missing backpack, the loss of a car—is in many cases preventing children from going back to school.

Federal judge rules school board districts illegal in Georgia school system, calls for new map

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School board districts in the Cobb County school system appear to be unconstitutionally discriminatory and must be quickly redrawn ahead of 2024’s elections, judge says.

Changes to Georgia school accountability could mean no more A-to-F grades for schools and districts

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A full spectrum of school accountability numbers was released for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. But there isn’t a single number to sum up the performance of any one school or district.

New superintendent selected for Mississippi’s Madison County Schools

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Ted Poore said in a statement that he is “honored and humbled” to be chosen to serve as the next superintendent beginning July 1, 2024.

Florida school board may seek ouster of Moms for Liberty co-founder

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Bridget Ziegler could move a step closer to getting ousted from a Florida school board on this week as she is embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault investigation into her husband.

Handcuffed and sent to the ER–for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital

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Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation.

Lacking counselors, US schools turn to the booming business of online therapy

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Now at least 16 of the 20 largest U.S. public school districts are offering online therapy sessions to reach millions of students, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. In those districts alone, schools have signed provider contracts worth more than $70 million.

Plan to add teaching of Holocaust, genocide to science education draws questions from Maine teachers

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While critics of the proposed updates said they are borne of good intentions—the proposal states that science has “sometimes been used by those in power to oppress and abuse others"—they also said that injecting the materials into a middle school science curriculum could distract from conventional scientific principles and could jeopardize science education.

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