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ESSER Funding 101: Everything You Need to Know in 5 Minutes or Less

What Is ESSER Funding?  Published on December 22, 2022 and updated on May 8, 2024. ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funding is the portion of funding from the…
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Federal Education Funding 101: Everything You Need to Know

Published on June 16, 2023 and updated on November 9, 2023 How the Debt Ceiling Deal Could Impact Future Federal Education Funding The U.S. Congress passed, and President Biden signed…
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Opposition to Elimination of USED’s Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) comes from EL Advocacy Groups and Congress

Back in February I wrote about the U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos’, proposed reorganization of the U.S. Department of Education (USED) that would eliminate the USED’s Office of English…
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Can ESEA (ESSA) Funds be used to Pay EL Teacher’s Salaries?

When I was employed at a state department of education, I monitored school districts for compliance with ESEA requirements for both Title I and Title III. I also contracted with…
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Are Charter Schools Considered School Districts or just Schools?

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) went into effect at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, forcing districts across the country to evaluate, re-write, and re-translate the parent and family…
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Allowable Uses of COVID Relief: Technology and Construction

States, school districts, and schools have significant flexibility in spending federal COVID relief funds announced last spring.    Public and private schools have $190 billion from three rounds of federal funding grants…
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Polaris Growth Fund Makes Strategic Investment in TransACT Communications

(Seattle, WA, February 21, 2020) TransACT Communications, LLC (“TransACT”), a leading SaaS provider of engagement, compliance and payment solutions for the education market, has received a strategic growth investment from…
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How do English Language Learners Perform in Charter Schools?

Charter schools are known throughout the U.S. for endeavoring to provide students with resources to better channel their energies into their studies by experimenting with new or modified methodologies. Depending…
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How operational key performance indicators impact student success initiatives

In the often-siloed world of education, district leaders can lose sight of how performance in non-academic metrics can affect student outcomes.This reality exists despite research showing a relationship between positively…
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National Standards for Family-School Partnerships

The February 28th National Council for State Title III Directors (NCSTIIID) 2018 Annual Meeting, held in Albuquerque, NM, included a panel discussion titled “Building Strong Partnerships between Families, Schools, and…