**NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
RELEVANT TO THE CENTER'S FOCUS
Keep up with the National Initiative for Transforming Student and Learning Supports.
For details and for free access to the new work entitled: Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System,
see http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/newinitiative.html
More students in New York City schools homeless than ever before :
The number of students in New York City's public schools living in temporary housing reached a record 114,659 this past school year, according
to the Advocates for Children of New York. This marked the third year in a row that the number exceeded 100,000, the group said. The New York Times (10/15)
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Too Many States Minimize Student Subgroup Performance in Essa Accountability Systems:An analysis by the Alliance for Excellent Education indicates that many state are skirting ESSA's requirements related to identifying low-performing schools, and those where subgroups of students are struggling (e.g., vulnerable subgroups of students,
such as racial minorities, English-learners, and those with disabilities).
https://all4ed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ESSA-Subgroup-Performance-State-Accountability-Systems.pdf
One Third of Middle- and High-Schoolers Were Bullied Last Year, Study Shows: A third of students say they were bullied last school year, according to a report released today by non-profit group YouthTruth. That’s an increase from two years ago, when just over
one in four students had been. (USA Today, Sept. 24)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2018/09/24/one-out-three-students-were-bullied-us-school-last-year/1374631002/
A Benefit of Free Lunch for All: Fewer Students Get Repeatedly Suspended, New Study Suggests
It’s the latest evidence that universal meal programs, which have also been linked to higher test scores and better health in other research, help students. (Chalkbeat, Sept. 18)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/09/18/could-expanding-school-lunch-programs-help-keep-kids-in-school/
Most States Still Don't Require Full-Day Kindergarten, Report Finds.
The newly updated report, which was released
last month, finds that that only 15 states and the District of Columbia require full-day kindergarten.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/early_years/2018/07/most_states_still_dont_require_full-day_kindergarten_report_finds.html?cmp=soc-twitter-shr
Special education students on the rise. The
number of students receiving special education in public schools is rising, with
about 13 percent of all students receiving such instruction, according to a
recent study. A Department of Education report, titled the Condition of
Education 2018, states the number
of students aged 3 to 21 receiving special education services
increased from 6.6 million to 6.7 million from the 2014-2015 school year to the
2015-2016 school year. Among those, 34 percent had specific learning
disabilities, of which 20 percent had speech or language impairments and 14
percent had other health impairments.
>County to pay rent so children don't have to change schools.
To keep 26
children from being yanked out of their Northeast Portland (OR) elementary
school mid-school-year, Multnomah County will spend $48,000 to cover the
steep rent increases that threatened to displace them and their families.
Rigler Elementary School is in the county's SUN Community Schools program,
which provides after-school activities and social services to disadvantaged
students. The county-connection made reallocation of funds possible. County
officials decided that, through the SUN program, they'd made an investment
in Rigler children's success and wanted to support that community.
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2017/02/county_to_pay_rent_for_26_port.html#incart_river_index
>North Carolina's School-Based Mental Health Initiativ. Requires all LEAs/charter schools to develop
and implement a plan for assessing and improving the effectiveness of existing supports for addressing the mental health
and substance use needs of the student population. Each plan is to address (1) universal prevention, (2) early intervention services,
and (3) referral, treatment, and re-entry. In addition, state-level supports via consultation and training are described.
Policy statement
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http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/review.htm
September is
National Suicide Prevention Month -- See
the resource links at http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/p3002_02.htm
Also access other news stories relevant to improving addressing barriers to learning through links at
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/whatsnew/linkstolatest.htm
We draw on a variety of standard sources to amass the above items
(e.g., ECS e-clip at
http://www.ecs.org/e-clips)
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