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Indianapolis School District Uses Food Truck to Give Thousands of Students Free Lunch

For some kids in Indianapolis, access to quality food doesn't seem to be an option during the summertime. It's why the Indianapolis Public School District (IPS) has launched an initiative to change...

Rural Schools

Illinois' Current School Funding Formula Is the Definition of Insanity. Here's How This Superintendent Says We Can Fix It.

Kimako Patterson is the superintendent of Prairie-Hills Elementary District 144. Prairie-Hills is a 2,600-student district in the south suburbs of Illinois where 95 percent of students are from...

Poverty

Founders, Eggs and Fists: How the NewSchools Summit Proved That the Fight Over Education Is Spiritual

When the NewSchools Summit in San Francisco ended last week, Black attendees were asking me what I would write about it. They were curious because this Summit was markedly different from the last...

Chicago

While Feds Loosen School Nutrition Standards, My Child’s School Won’t Back Down

While my husband dug in the freezer on a recent Monday morning, my second-grader informed me of the day’s breakfast menu: “I’m having a waffle and chocolate pudding.” “Have some school breakfast,...

student success

Skip the Coffee Card: I’d Rather Have This for Teacher Appreciation Week

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week again. No doubt we will be treated to a flood of posts on social media, abundant snacks in the faculty room and the occasional half-melted chocolate bar from deep in a...

Implicit bias

Teach For America Could Be Exactly What America's Schools Need to Reduce Implicit Bias

As a young man, President Lyndon Johnson taught desperately poor children in South Texas and would often reference this eye-opening experience during his time in the White House. Johnson also...

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