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Just 4 out of 10 Voters Rate Their Local School Boards Positively
Capital Ideas | September 3, 2024 | Lance Izumi

School boards have become ground zero for some of the most hotly debated topics in America's national discourse and policymaking. A newly-released Pacific Research Institute survey finds htat most voters do not give positive marks to their own local school boards . . .

When asked to rate the overall performance of their local school board, only 41 percent gave their own school board an excellent/good rating. In contrast, 45 percent gave their school board a fair/poor/very poor rating. Fourteen percent said they were unsure.

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Pressure builds - even in blue states - to reform Schools of Education, reinstall phonics training
The College Fix | August 29, 2024 | Jennifer Kabbany

After decades of American students struggling to learn how to read using whole language and context clues, many leaders — including those in deep blue states — want to go back to proven phonics instruction, now referred to as the “science of reading” approach, according to education expert Lance Izumi.

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