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NYSSCA
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ASCA
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NYSED
The Board of Regents on April 6 adopted emergency regulations to ease the burdens and provide important flexibility for educators, students, professionals and others to address interruptions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series of amendments address numerous issues resulting from the interruptions districts, institutions of higher education and licensed professionals are experiencing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WMGA
Since 2007, the WMGA awarded between six and eleven scholarships to young women from the New York Metropolitan area to assist in offsetting the high cost of higher education. The scholarships can be used for college related expenses, which are not necessarily covered by other grants and programs. To date, we have committed over $715,000 to 115 recipients.
The scholarship awards are for 2 years with a simple renewal application for an additional 2 years. We have also extended awards to recipients, who have continued on to graduate programs including law school.
Our application, can be accessed on our website.
Education DIVE
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered school buildings across the nation at unprecedented speed, with nearly all states closed through April and a handful extending closures through the end of the academic year. For high schools, the rapidly changing situation has thrown usual traditions for a loop: senior proms are being canceled and graduation ceremonies postponed or becoming virtual events.
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NPR
In mid-March, as schools across the country began to close, aspiring college students got big news: Spring ACT and SAT tests were being called off amid concerns about the spreading coronavirus. Now, a growing list of colleges have announced they're going test-optional for the class of 2021, meaning the SAT or ACT will not be required for admission. Those schools join a pool of about 1,000 U.S. colleges that have already dropped the standardized tests from admissions requirements, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an advocacy group that has long been critical of standardized testing.
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District Administration Magazine
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, H.R.748, which was signed by President Trump into law on March 27, includes new funding opportunities for state educational agencies and local educational agencies dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the measure includes nearly $16.2 billion in new funding for two emergency education relief funds to be administered by the U.S. Education Department.
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Education Week
As students with learning disabilities enter distance learning environments, a tangled patchwork of state regulations, a lack of therapist training, and limited access to high-speed internet threatens to limit their access to key services that help them speak, move and acquire skills for daily living.
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The New York Times
Tucked away in the $2 trillion coronavirus stabilization bill is a provision that allows Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to seek congressional approval to waive parts of the federal special education law while schools combat the coronavirus pandemic. How she might use that authority scares parents like Jennifer Gratzer, who lives in Seattle.
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NPR
Spring is a big time of year for the college-bound — getting acceptance letters, figuring out financial aid, making a decision. Even in a typical year, it can be overwhelming. But as we all know, this is not a typical year. Shereen Marisol Maraji, c0-host of NPR's Code Switch podcast asks Elissa Nadworny, an NPR Education reporter and Life Kit host, some big questions about navigating college admissions during the uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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EdSurge
What will K-12 schools look like after social distancing is over and people reassess what they want from school systems after the pandemic? For this bonus episode of the EdSurge Podcast, we posed that question to Simon Rodberg, a former charter school principal and author of a forthcoming book from ACSD, "What If I'm Wrong? and Other Key Questions for Decisive School Leadership."
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Education DIVE
Districts with more resources and technology are better prepared for this type of interruption. In Forsyth County, Georgia, where only 15% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the district can hand out hot spots for students who need them, and an existing multilingual messaging app helps keep parents informed.
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Education DIVE
While the survey returned only 700 responses, it's one of the first attempts to capture data on how teachers are adjusting to this shift. Such knowledge will become increasingly important with some experts suggesting that closures could extend into the 2020-2021 school year, or that at least additional closures will be necessary. The voices of teachers can help districts determine how to create ongoing support when all educators teach remotely — during this crisis or a future one.
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Education DIVE
The proposed rules are part of a bigger regulatory overhaul that aims to give schools more flexibility in how they approach instruction while retaining eligibility for federal student aid. However, critics warn the move eliminates important oversight.
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THE Journal
Some students are using Minecraft during their "self-quarantines" to recreate their campuses. And at least one group is planning a national graduation ceremony to take place in their virtual world. Minecraft, introduced by Mojang and acquired by Microsoft in 2014, is an online world that allows players to explore and play in the game or to build their own experiences and realms using digital blocks.
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The Associated Press
Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak. With routers mounted inside, the buses broadcast enough bandwidth in an area the size of a small parking lot for parents to drive up and children to access the internet from inside their cars. One of the buses set up outside the apartment complex of Lacheyle Moore, who had been limiting her own usage to leave enough data on her cellphone plan for her daughter's schoolwork.
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The Associated Press
At school, Rose Hayes, 8, works with a team of teachers and therapists trained to help with her genetic condition. They set goals for her reading, give her physical therapy to improve her balance and make sure she stays on track. But for the last two weeks, her only connection to school has been through a computer screen. Rose, home amid the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered schools across the country, now watches lessons her teacher posts to YouTube. Her therapists check in via video chat. In between, she works through daily assignments.
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MiddleWeb
Today many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to adapt their teaching methods to online instruction at the same time they are home with their own children attempting to help them navigate new ways of learning. The world has suddenly gone a little sideways, and the abrupt necessity to create new routines and procedures is formidable.
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THE Journal
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, signed into law on March 24, 2020, includes about $30.75 billion in funding dedicated to the needs of public education.
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PBS Newshour
More than 55 million American students are staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The impacts are huge — affecting students, parents and teachers. Learning is happening with a host of new challenges. Kate Gardoqui of the Great Schools Partnership joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
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eSchool News
With the Common Core Standards came an increased focus on reading informational texts, starting with kindergarten. But integrating informational texts isn't as simple as having students read a couple of biographies every marking period. In the edWebinar, "Strategies to Engage Young Learners with Informational Texts," Nell Duke, Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture at the University of Michigan School of Education, offered her advice for understanding and incorporating informational texts in the classroom.
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The Hechinger Report
Emergencies that disrupt the regular functioning of schools and colleges don't occur in a power vacuum. They play out in education systems with deeply embedded patterns of inequality, determined by where students live, by family income, by race and by ethnicity, among other factors.
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