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Economic Impact of Suspending 10th Graders: $35 Billion, Study Says

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. “If schools knew the real costs associated with suspension, its use might not have become so pervasive,” says the analysis, which was co-written by Russell Rumberger of the University of California and Daniel Losen, a UCLA researcher and advocate for cutting back on classroom removals. Suit by Parents, Pro-Charter Group: N.Y.C.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Vázquez tells her staff to create a structure for language use in their classrooms, but she says the school embraces the language skills that students bring with them. Long’s classroom offers one example of how fluid language can be at the Muñiz Academy.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

David Murphy, who has served as the district’s superintendent since 2002 (and has worked in the district since 1984), explained that the approach was born of necessity. “This style of learning, this family atmosphere that we have here, it’s a real positive in kids’ lives,” Dole said. High school is not really working for most kids,” he said.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day. “My Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19. BRISTOL, Va. — Meth and opioids flooded in.