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In Winter Haven, Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to speak out against lockdowns, vaccine passports and school closures that he says weren't backed by science.
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President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address that federal funds will pay to replace lead pipes in hundreds of thousands of schools and child care centers. In the meantime, schools are dealing with high lead levels now.
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When a grant for accessible playground equipment didn't cover all the costs, the students at a Minnesota elementary school launched a fundraising campaign.
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Republican state Sen. Corey Simon and Democrat Rep. Allison Tant, both of Tallahassee filed identical bills to allow parents to stay involved in their child’s IEP until age 22.
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Thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls are unaccounted for, according to an analysis. They did not move out of state and did not sign up for private or home school.
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The plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also seeks to decrease sodium in the meals served to schoolkids by 2029, while making the rules for foods made with whole grains more flexible.
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When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special education services.
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The scale of the disruption is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with AP. It found the average student lost half a school year in math and more than a quarter of a year in reading.
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Besides children being injured in the actual event, physical symptoms may manifest as an increase of headaches or stomachaches. But for mental health, the hallmark symptom is post-traumatic stress.
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Every state saw scores decline in the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It's considered the first nationally representative study of the pandemic’s impact on learning.