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  • This county launched an ambitious child care effort 7 years ago. Here's what happened.

    February 02, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Child Care 8000 initiative set out to increase the number of available child care slots in Mesa County, Colorado by encouraging coordination, streamlining the licensing process, and expanding training opportunities. Though the campaign did not reach its goal, it did help add roughly 800 child care slots and improve the quality of existing programs.

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  • Minnesota schools testing electric buses find benefits and barriers

    January 30, 2024 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

    After adding electric school buses to its fleet with the help of grant funding, Morris Area Schools saw its fuel costs drop from about $3 per gallon to the equivalent of about $1 a gallon. Each bus is estimated to help cut roughly 140 tons of carbon emissions over its lifetime.

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  • AI is helping school districts navigate bus driver shortages

    January 25, 2024 |

    Axios |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    HopSkipDrive is a transportation company with an artificial intelligence tool that helps schools across the United States optimize their bus routes around driver shortages. The company uses a combination of traditional bus rides and passenger cars operated by its drivers to improve on-time arrival rates and reduce absenteeism.

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  • Could a Ride-Sharing Network Help Get Chicago Students to School?

    January 23, 2024 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    To help fill transportation gaps left by bus driver shortages, school districts are partnering with HopSkipDrive, a network that leverages vetted rideshare drivers to take students to and from classes and activities. The company is working with 600 school districts, nonprofits, and agencies across the country.

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  • Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

    January 11, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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  • A Surprising Way to Stop Bullying

    January 08, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    Rather than prioritizing punishment, the No-Blame Approach focuses on shifting the social dynamics at the root of bullying, using group interventions to help students communicate and build empathy for one another. One study found the method effective in 87 percent of evaluated bullying cases.

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  • More Kansas teens feel sad or hopeless, but a school program is helping thousands

    December 18, 2023 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Kansas’ Mental Health Intervention Team Program pairs school districts with community health centers who bring therapists to the schools to give students better access to the mental health support they need. Between July 2022 and June 2023, more than 6,000 students participated in the program, and nearly half of participants showed improved behavior after receiving services, while 39 percent had improved attendance and 41 percent improved academically.

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  • 95% of public schools conduct active shooter drills. Are students safer?

    December 05, 2023 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States

    Despite being a largely divided issue, studies show that students at schools that participate in lockdown drills and training report being less fearful of school shootings over time. Currently, 95% of kindergarten through 12th-grade schools across the country participate in some form of mandatory lockdown drill or training that is designed to teach students and staff what to do if there’s an active shooter in the building.

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  • Mansfield City wins districtwide honor for PBIS implementation

    December 04, 2023 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an approach to student behavior that focuses on how well students embody five standards — respect, responsibility, readiness, safety and pride — and awards points based on their behaviors that can be redeemed for rewards. PBIS offers an alternative to the “zero tolerance” student behavior policies that have been known to hurt academic achievement, particularly among students of color. Studies show that schools with a PBIS approach saw classroom removals decrease by 58% and out-of-school suspensions decreased by about half.

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  • Does Mandatory Civic Education Increase Voter Turnout?

    December 04, 2023 |

    Democracy Works |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, 18 states have adopted the Civic Education Initiative, which requires high school students to take an exam modeled on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Civics test. However, researchers have determined that voter turnout rates did not increase among the target age group in states that adopted the policy.

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