* Strategies to
Keep Kids in School States can learn a lesson from a recently released report about dropout rates in 16 states.
Not exact matches
If an electronic device is
keeping you awake past midnight, but you still have to wake at 5 to get the
kids off to
school and to get to work on time, you will be
in a
state of chronic sleep deprivation.
Growing up
in central Indiana, Russell says he was «one of those
kids they didn't know what to do with,» too precocious for his tiny
school district to accommodate, but
kept in high
school by
state laws that typically require
kids to sit through 40 or so courses to graduate.
This compendium also includes four briefs discussing: the Common Core
State Standards; supporting students with disabilities and other special needs;
keeping kids safe and supported
in the hours after
school; and using data to better serve students.
Ending traditional
school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and
schools (which account for 34 percent of
school funding
in the Wolverine
State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of
school choice,
keep poor and minority
kids out of the
schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.
Judicial leaders, such as Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who served on New York
state's high court for 25 years, organized a national symposium on the need to «
keep kids in school and out of court.»