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National
As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which aimed to end "separate but equal" education, challenges to school integration persist. Despite advancements, many U.S. school districts today are still segregated along residential and economic lines. Gary Orfield from UCLA's Civil Rights Project highlights that more students now attend "intensely segregated" schools than they did 30 years ago. This regression often follows the discontinuation of court-ordered desegregation plans, as seen in the Supreme Court's 1991 ruling in Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell. The resistance to integration has historical roots and continues today, often undermining efforts to maintain diverse educational environments. This enduring segregation raises questions about the effectiveness and longevity of integration efforts, amidst historical and ongoing resistance to desegregating schools.
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California
The White House's "Every Day Counts Summit" tackled the surge in chronic absenteeism since returning to in-person classes, focusing on community engagement to promote attendance. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona emphasized the crucial role of community in ensuring daily attendance, highlighting the distressing statistic that more than one in four students were chronically absent in recent years, significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels. New initiatives announced include $250m in grants for learning acceleration and a partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to support parents. The summit showcased strategies like Connecticut's door-knocking campaigns, which have proven effective by addressing specific family issues behind absenteeism. States like Rhode Island and Indiana are using real-time data dashboards to monitor attendance, part of broader efforts to mitigate chronic absenteeism through community and state-level engagement.
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Texas
As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which aimed to end "separate but equal" education, challenges to school integration persist. Despite advancements, many U.S. school districts today are still segregated along residential and economic lines. Gary Orfield from UCLA's Civil Rights Project highlights that more students now attend "intensely segregated" schools than they did 30 years ago. This regression often follows the discontinuation of court-ordered desegregation plans, as seen in the Supreme Court's 1991 ruling in Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell. The resistance to integration has historical roots and continues today, often undermining efforts to maintain diverse educational environments. This enduring segregation raises questions about the effectiveness and longevity of integration efforts, amidst historical and ongoing resistance to desegregating schools.
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Florida
The White House's "Every Day Counts Summit" tackled the surge in chronic absenteeism since returning to in-person classes, focusing on community engagement to promote attendance. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona emphasized the crucial role of community in ensuring daily attendance, highlighting the distressing statistic that more than one in four students were chronically absent in recent years, significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels. New initiatives announced include $250m in grants for learning acceleration and a partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to support parents. The summit showcased strategies like Connecticut's door-knocking campaigns, which have proven effective by addressing specific family issues behind absenteeism. States like Rhode Island and Indiana are using real-time data dashboards to monitor attendance, part of broader efforts to mitigate chronic absenteeism through community and state-level engagement.
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