What does mixed-delivery mean for children? Mixed-delivery is an opportunity for eligible 4-year-olds...
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What does mixed-delivery mean for children? Mixed-delivery is an opportunity for eligible 4-year-olds...
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A mixed-delivery model is best understood as placing a public preschool classroom within a private child care center. Mixed-delivery preschool facilitates partnership among public school districts and private child care providers to expand access to publicly funded early learning services. A mixed-delivery system wraps child 
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A mixed-delivery model is best understood as placing a public preschool classroom within a private child care center. Mixed-delivery preschool facilitates partnership among public school districts and private child care providers to expand access to publicly funded early learning services. A mixed-delivery system wraps child 
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Kentucky has new enrollment rules for nonresident students, creating added opportunities for a student who lives in one school district to enroll in another. Aiming to be helpful to families and community members, we’ve identified likely questions and answer, and that analysis is now available in our two-page “explainer.”
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve done a lot of reading state law and local district policies on enrolling nonresident pupils. That’s allowed me to write our Prichard Committee “just-the-facts-ma’am” explainer. In the process, I’ve also formed some opinions about how these changes can be handled to work constructively (or as constructively as possible) for students, staff, families, and communities. They’re my starting thoughts, and I’ll share them here.
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About the Annual Meeting This year’s Annual meeting will be held in beautiful Berea, KY. We have scheduled learning and engagement events over two days to maximize opportunities for members, stakeholders and partners to connect and reengage.There is a $100 registration fee for the meeting 
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As schools are starting to open and, across the nation, we are hearing resounding concern about teacher shortages, there is no more important time to celebrate the work Kentucky teachers do – day in and day out. When it comes to what our schools can do to prepare each and every learner for a bright future, research confirms that teaching matters most. Yet so many stories of the impact a teacher has in his or her classroom are overshadowed by the shear busyness of our lives and the extraordinarily tense public-political world we find ourselves in.
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March 13th, 2020 will be a day I will always remember. Much like 9/11 or when the Challenger fell to Earth, it stands in my memory like a beacon, a marker that changed everything. I walked out of my classroom, not knowing that I wouldn’t see it again for six months and that everything would be so different when I returned. Two years later, I reflect on all that I personally and professionally have gone through and, most importantly, how much education has changed in these two years.
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During the early days of the 2021 school year, I knew this year was different. Many of my students displayed signs of trauma like not speaking up, being reluctant to make eye contact, not wanting to work in groups, and appearing shy and secluded from 
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