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High-Performing & Dedicated Team

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You can also browse these topics pages: teacher quality/effectiveness, retention, and recruitment & hiring.

Efficient Operations/Budget & Finance

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Illustration of a businessman with his hands on his head while he watches dollars being sucked down into a dark hole.
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You can also browse these topics pages: budget & finance and school funding.

Parent & Community Engagement

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A group of ethnically diverse Kindergarten children sit on the floor of their classroom, cross-legged and dressed in casual clothing.  They are all looking up at their teacher who is holding out a storybook and reading to them.  They are all smiling and listening attentively.
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Early Childhood How Kindergarten 'Redshirting' Is Changing
Caitlynn Peetz, October 23, 2024
5 min read
Illustration of a silhouette of a person standing on a white path that drops off into a cliff. The other side of the cliff shows a flag on the path where it picks up.
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State-of-the-Art Facilities/Maintenance

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An empty classroom with chairs, desks, and a green chalkboard, illuminated by sunlight, evoking education concept. 3D Rendering
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Pink Piggy Bank with a vote sticker on the back and a blurred Capitol building in the distance.
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You can also browse this topics page: school facilities & design.

Prepare Students for Career & College in a Global Environment

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Assessment Massachusetts Voters Poised to Ditch High School Exit Exam
Alyson Klein, November 6, 2024
3 min read
Pencil drawing a checkmark in a box. U.S.A. ballot measures voting in elections.
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States 5 Ways You Didn't Know the Election Will Affect K-12 Schools
Mark Lieberman, October 31, 2024
8 min read
Jeffrey Neill, director of college counseling at Graded - The American School of São Paulo in Brazil, presents on how to use AI tools in his work at the College Board’s annual forum in Austin, Texas on Oct. 21, 2024.
Jeffrey Neill, director of college counseling at Graded: The American School of São Paulo in Brazil, presents on how to use AI tools in his work at the College Board’s annual forum in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 21, 2024.
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You can also browse these topics pages: college readiness, college access, career readiness, and graduation requirements.

Diversity

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School social worker Melva Mullins embraces a student in her office at Garnet-Patterson S.T.A.Y. High School in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 2024, after the student confided in Mullins about some heavy topics.
School social worker Melva Mullins embraces a student in her office at Garnet-Patterson S.T.A.Y. High School in the District of Columbia on Sept. 27, 2024, after the student confided in Mullins about some heavy topics.
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Equity & Diversity Why It's Important to Recruit More School Counselors of Color
Brooke Schultz, September 30, 2024
5 min read
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You can also browse these topics pages: diversity and teacher diversity.

School Safety

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz participate in a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in New York.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz participate in a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in New York.
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Federal What JD Vance and Tim Walz Said About School Safety in VP Debate
Libby Stanford, October 1, 2024
3 min read
President Joe Biden signs an executive order that aims to help schools make active shooter drills less traumatic for students, during an event with Vice President Kamala Harris and others in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2024.
President Joe Biden signs an executive order that aims to help schools make active shooter drills more effective and less traumatic for students during an event with Vice President Kamala Harris and others in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2024.
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Photograph of crime scene tape and school.
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You can also browse these topics pages: school safety and school shootings.