City Connects is in its third year of operations in Ireland, where it’s running in Dublin’s North East Inner City (NEIC), an area with high concentrations of students who live in poverty.
Since then, the program has brought new services, supports, and enrichment programs to students. Here’s a by-the-numbers look at what has been accomplished, drawn from NEIC’s 2022 Progress Report.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Telemedicine services can help keep kids stay in class.
Support grows for universal pre-K programs.
Greenville, S.C., is introducing students to career education in elementary school.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
The trauma of preschool suspensions and expulsions is long-lasting.
Supreme Court asks President Biden about the legal status of charter schools.
America’s public schools are losing students.
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Continue reading “The Weekly Connect 1/17/23”In 2022, “gubernatorial elections were held in 36 states and 3 territories,” according to the National Governors Association. And as these newly elected or reelected governors are being sworn into office in the shadow of the pandemic, many are looking for ways to provide more students with more access to mental health and to wraparound services.
These governors face obstacles.
Billions of dollars are invested in these services by local, state, and federal governments, “to promote healthy child development and academic progress,” according to a recent policy brief from Boston College’s Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children, the home of City Connects.
“These resources have the power to be transformative.
“Too often they are not.”
That’s because a “complicated tangle of programs, services, and resources creates a barrier to children’s wellbeing, learning, and opportunity. Transforming this delivery system is both possible and urgent.”
To help governors and their staff do this transformative work, the National Governors Association held a webinar on community schools and wraparound services, and invited Joan Wasser Gish to talk about integrated student support and the new National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
LGBTQ students can’t access mental health services.
Federal funding for K-12 schools increases by 5.6 percent.
The ratio of students to school counselor is improving, but schools still face challenges hiring counselors.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
LGBTQ students face more hostility and less support in school.
Federal government expands access to STEMM: science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine.
Building social-emotional skills for English Learners.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Teens’ brains aged prematurely during the pandemic.
Students in poverty need both intensive academic and social supports, according to a policy brief.
As respiratory illnesses surge, schools can help keep students healthy.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Higher youth suicide rates linked to mental health staff shortages.
School budgets should not rely solely on local property taxes; they also need flexible state aid.
Programs for gifted students need more support.
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