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Understanding School Evaluations — WISC-V: Reading Results and Building IEPs
Part B of the WISC-V deep dive: how to judge which score differences are real using critical values and base rates, how to run pattern analysis before norm comparisons, and how to turn a verified pattern into present levels, measurable goals, services, and accommodations — plus the New Hampshire…
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[Pennsylvania] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The First Two Hundred Million
Philadelphia's school board puts the first two hundred million dollars behind its closure and modernization plan and City Council asks whether that board should be elected, on the eve of a state election that will decide Pennsylvania's school funding and scholarship fights. Sources: Philly Rhino,...
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[Oregon] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: After the Students Leave
Salem-Keizer has not disclosed what happens to the six elementary buildings it proposes to close — and its last round of closures produced only two sales, years later, with two buildings marketed fifteen years on. Plus the Silver Rail community engagement sessions set for November 4 and 5 in…
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[Oklahoma] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Who Will Teach the Teachers?
A February executive order barring tenure for new hires at Oklahoma's regional universities and community colleges is already changing hiring at East Central University and across the six-school regional system, while the Strong Readers Act implementation briefing shows the trained teachers and...
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[Rhode Island] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Ready for Excellence, or Ready on Paper?
RIDE's Ready for Excellence proposal would flip advanced coursework to automatic enrollment, shorten CTE programs to two courses, and put a postsecondary credential plan in every student's learning plan — but the Council vote to enter public comment has no published outcome, and the…
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[Ohio] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Buildings Are the Budget
Columbus hears its second fifty-million-dollar cut plan tonight, with school closures that still leave thirty million dollars unfound, and Lawrence County's Open Door School for students with developmental disabilities learns it will not operate next year — plus today's Glenville court hearing…
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[North Carolina] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Cost of Empty Seats
A new EPIC study at UNC-Chapel Hill finds chronic absenteeism — still around 24% in 2024-25 — reshapes instruction, teacher workload, and measured teacher performance, while Durham Public Schools tries a contracted pipeline to fill 28 exceptional children's teacher vacancies. Plus Election Day...
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[North Dakota] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Second Try
On election eve, Bismarck and Surrey re-run school bonds that won majorities in June but missed North Dakota's 60 percent supermajority, Fargo decides whether its school funding grows or freezes, and two November application windows open for schools and students. Sources: North Dakota Department…
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[New York] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Promoted Anyway
New York City promoted 99.6 percent of grades 3-8 students in 2024-25 while 57 percent were proficient in math — what promotion means under the multiple-measures rules, one family story that put the grades-versus-tests gap to the chancellor, and the last day of the SUNY free application window....
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[Connecticut] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Buses Are Back in Bridgeport
Bridgeport restores student bus service under a state-negotiated contract, Google's answer on AI in schools is due today with no public response yet this morning, Connecticut's educator certification portal stays dark until November tenth, and CT State open houses begin tonight. Sources: City of...
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[Massachusetts] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Monitors Arrive
DESE's Tiered Focused Monitoring team begins its six-year English learner review of Cambridge Public Schools today, the Essex Tech revised admissions policy is still not verifiable one day past its November 1 deadline, Framingham's building committee selects a site plan for the new Bethany Road...
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[New Mexico] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Free to Apply
Throughout November, New Mexicans can apply for free to 24 colleges and universities under No Fee November — three schools waiving fees for the month and 21 that never charge — while Albuquerque holds its multilingual right-sizing session tonight and polls open tomorrow at 7 a.m. Sources: - 24…
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[New Jersey] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Election Eve — 1,713 Candidates, 1,483 Seats, and One Vote Tonight
On election eve, New Jersey's school board field shrank — 1,713 candidates for 1,483 seats, down from a 1.26 ratio last year to 1.16 — with crowded races in Montgomery, Fair Lawn, and Readington, empty ballot slots in five towns, 13 construction questions totaling $244,178,162 in proposed…
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[Nebraska] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Election Eve — One Constitutional Question and 218 Million Dollars in Bonds
On the eve of the November 3 election, Nebraska voters face Initiative Measure 442, a proposed constitutional rule designating school athletic teams by biological sex, at least $218 million in school bonds across six districts led by South Sioux City's $95 million no-levy-increase ask, a School...
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[Nevada] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: What the Winners Inherit
On election eve, the three Clark County school board races are all being run against the same budget crisis — a general fund down to about $3.8 billion, an emergency funding order that expires in February 2027, and no agreed cause for the enrollment decline — while Washoe County has exactly one...
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[Vermont] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Stalled at the Warning
Three Northeast Kingdom merger study committees are on hold awaiting state guidance on how Vermont's open meeting law applies to them, while the Agency of Education's updated school and district profiles — targeted for October 31 — still show no public posting as of Monday morning's check.…
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[Montana] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Meals Are Covered, Impact Aid Is Not
Montana's Office of Public Instruction says school meal reimbursements are covered for September and October meals during the federal shutdown, through carryover funding and the Section 32 Treasury transfer, while Impact Aid payments to districts may begin seeing disruptions — plus the Montana...
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[Missouri] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Fund That Would Replace the Tax
On election eve, Missouri's Amendment 7 asks voters to build a permanent endowment fund that would eliminate state taxes once its earnings can replace them, Amendment 6 would lock voter-approved laws behind an eighty percent wall, a new legislative scorecard puts three education votes in front of...
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[Maine] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Question Not on Tomorrow's Ballot
On the eve of the November third election, the statewide citizen initiative that would designate school sports and private facilities by the sex on a student's original birth certificate is not on the ballot — it fell five hundred thirty-two signatures short after two court losses — and its...
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[NH] NH Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Where the Money Moved
Part two of a two-part look at New Hampshire adequate education aid: where the money moved in fiscal year 2026 — 145 municipalities received less as Hold Harmless Grants phase out, Education Freedom Accounts grew to 10,510 students and 51.6 million dollars alongside the same grant structure, and...
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[Mississippi] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: A Scholarship, a Probation Letter, and an Election That Ends After Election Day
A Mississippi homeschool graduate earned a scholarship and an A in a college class, then was placed on academic probation because his diploma came from a homeschool — a decision reversed within a week, with no pledge to change the policy — plus tomorrow's election mechanics: the first federal...
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[Minnesota] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: A Small Grant With Two Different Rules, on Election Eve
A Minnesota grant for inclusive special education prints two different eligibility rules in its own instructions ahead of its Friday deadline, a high school bylaw deadline passes with no published confirmation, and early in-person voting ends on election eve. Sources: - Minnesota Department of...
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[Michigan] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: One Million Connections
Michigan opens Family Engagement Month with a new MiLEAP report counting more than 1.09 million family connections and 108,966 young people in out-of-school time programs, plus how Ida Public Schools used Elective Pay to replace failing boilers with geothermal heating. Sources: Governor's...
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[Maryland] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Seats Tuesday Decides
Election eve, seat by seat: Prince George's County's four board races — a seat vacant since June, a failed bus rollout, and a 150 million dollar budget cut — plus the 1776 Project PAC backing slates in Somerset, Frederick, Harford, and Talbot counties, and a follow-up desk reporting no driver...
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[Louisiana] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Planning Season Opens
Louisiana's 2027-28 Super App planning cycle is open — what the Oct. 29 launch, the three new priorities, and November's Nov. 16 and Nov. 20 federal deadlines mean for school systems. Sources: - Louisiana Department of Education, Federal Support and Grantee Relations Monthly Call deck, October…
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[Kentucky] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Half a Million Dollars for Five Seats
On election eve, the Courier Journal's tally of Kentucky Registry of Election Finance reports shows upwards of 500,000 dollars in independent spending — most of it from Better Schools Kentucky — around the five newly redrawn Jefferson County school board seats, plus the two contested Fayette…
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[Kansas] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Six Thousand Signatures Over the Line, and Still Short
Olathe's school-closure petition passes its signature threshold on paper but falls short after a twenty percent error rate, an Atchison high school musical is canceled and reinstated within a day, and Kansas advance voting ends at noon on election eve. Sources: - Olathe Today, November 1, 2026,...
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[Iowa] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Sixty Percent Is the Whole Game
Election eve in Iowa is decided by one number: sixty percent. Hinton's majority-yes bond that still lost last year, its smaller fourth attempt, Norwalk's bus facility timeline reported this morning, Kirkwood's eighty-eight million dollar ask, and Lone Tree's geothermal question — all shaped by…
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[Indiana] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Morning After Starts Tonight
Election eve in Indiana is a calendar, not just a vote: tonight's South Bend board vote on appealing the Clay High School ruling, tomorrow's record referendum wave, Wednesday's Hamilton Southeastern teacher-contract ratification whose final number depends on its referendum, and the very different...
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[Illinois] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Election Eve — Twenty-One Seats
On the eve of Chicago's first fully elected school board election, a look at what the 21-member board will control, the record outside money shaping the races, where the watchdog inquiry into a board president candidate actually stands, and one overdue federal repayment still unconfirmed a week...
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[Idaho] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Election Eve — No Bonds on the Ballot
Tomorrow Idaho voters decide more than three hundred seven million dollars in school levies — with no bonds on any ballot — so the threshold next to each levy matters as much as the amount, plus what supplemental levies now pay for and why Idaho elects its superintendent on a partisan ballot....
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[Hawaii] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Three Campuses, One Friday Afternoon
Three Hawaii campuses, three Friday safety incidents at three different stages of proof — a police-documented lockdown at Kealakehe High, Oahu threat evacuations still awaiting any official confirmation, and an arrest after a recorded assault at Baldwin High — plus the Kauai Monday check and an...
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[Georgia] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Filing Day in Athens, Election Eve Everywhere Else
Clarke County's charter system renewal application is due to the Georgia Department of Education today, and tomorrow Georgia voters elect a state school superintendent and decide two education sales taxes in DeKalb and Clarke counties. Sources: The Red and Black, 'Application to renew charter...
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[Florida] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The List No One Wants to Be On
Palm Beach County's school board has voted for the fourth time in two months to ask the state to bar a former employee from school work — plus the final Election Eve turnout numbers and the one mail-ballot deadline that decides whether a ballot counts. Sources: Palm Beach Post, 'Palm Beach County...
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[Delaware] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Window Opened at Eight
Delaware's school choice application window for 2027-28 opened today at 8 a.m. and closes January 13, 2027 — the full date sequence, the residence-registration first step, the kindergarten and good-cause exceptions, and the special education questions to get in writing before accepting a seat —...
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[Colorado] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Fourteen Measures, Three Different Finish Lines
Election Eve in Colorado: the fourteen statewide measures do not all win the same way — Proposition NN and Proposition 134 need a simple majority, Amendment 87 needs fifty-five percent and must outpoll Proposition 136 head-to-head, and the CDE standards feedback survey closes November 13.…
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[Arkansas] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Training a Team, Not Just Specialists
The final adequacy report is now posted one day after its due date, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded one point two five million dollars to train thirty-six early childhood special education, speech-language pathology, and behavior analysis specialists as one team, and the three-week...
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[California] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: One in Three Don't Come Back
California community college retention data show one in three fall students do not return in the spring, plus Los Angeles Unified's two single-sex academies and confirmation that Fresno Unified signed its Fresno Pacific guaranteed admission agreement. Sources: EdSource, "1 in 3 California…
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[Arizona] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Count That Opened Yesterday
On the eve of Election Day, Arizona's mandatory special education Teacher Attrition Survey opened for every district and charter — and the freshman program that quadrupled to twenty thousand students faces a state funding cliff. + Sources: Arizona Department of Education, Teacher Attrition Survey...
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[Alaska] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: The Sites That Never Opened
Election Eve in Alaska: the Division of Elections lists early voting sites in five rural villages — Ekwok, Goodnews Bay, Kongiganak, Mertarvik, and Scammon Bay — as temporarily closed, plus what voters there can still do today, Mat-Su Proposition A on school board terms, and the Lower Kuskokwim...
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[Alabama] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Fourteen Votes From May
Election Eve in Russell County: two school property tax renewals — a four mill Phenix City district tax and a four point five mill countywide tax — return to the November third ballot after failing in May, the district measure by fourteen votes, plus the November second check on the RAISE Act…
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[District of Columbia] Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Labels a Year Early
Next month OSSE will name the District's newest schools for comprehensive, targeted, and additional targeted support a full year early — the result of a denied federal accountability waiver, a new adaptive statewide test that breaks the growth measure, and an August decision to keep growth at the...
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[Northern Mariana Islands] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: The Seats Nobody Votes On
Beyond Tuesday's five elected Board of Education seats, three nonvoting seats — teacher, student, and nonpublic school — shape every board decision, and the teacher seat is settled by a teachers-only runoff in the first week of November under Commonwealth law, plus the election-week school…
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[American Samoa] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: The Ship Has Sailed, the Kits Stayed
Forty American Samoa educators trained with NOAA Ocean Exploration in August, four deep-sea instructional kits stayed with the Department of Education, and two Okeanos Explorer expeditions have now mapped territorial waters — plus an honest note on a strategic plan posted without readable text....
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[U.S. Virgin Islands] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: The Exam Comes Home
The University of the Virgin Islands has made its St. Thomas testing center an authorized Pearson VUE site, so professional certification and licensure exams no longer require a trip off-island for St. Thomas candidates — while St. Croix waits for a date — plus a free youth finance summit capped…
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[Guam] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: Do the Buildings Still Fit the Students?
The Office of Public Accountability has begun an analysis of whether Guam's school facilities match a shrinking enrollment — 23,121 students, costs up 62 percent per pupil, and a board that has so far resisted closing more schools — plus what to watch for in the analysis and Tuesday's…
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[Puerto Rico] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: What Teachers Need to Stay
A new Fundación SM survey of six hundred Puerto Rico teachers finds three of four say education has worsened while close to eighty percent teach by vocation — plus a November twentieth deadline for high schools to join TecLab Puerto Rico's twenty twenty-seven science cohort, and the unanswered...
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[Wyoming] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: First-Choice Trades
Bechtel's one million dollar investment in electrical and pipefitting training at two Wyoming colleges, and the survey gap it aims to close: adults respect the trades, but nearly half of high school students have never considered them and teachers are not yet convinced either. Sources: Bechtel,...
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[Wisconsin] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: What a No Vote Actually Starts
Two days before the election, three verdicts on one funding system: Green Bay's October 26 budget vote is finally verified — the board adopted the final budget and certified a 115.7 million dollar levy; four rural districts, Siren, Dodgeville, Gillett, and Winter, face possible dissolution if…
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[West Virginia] Education Daily — November 1, 2026: Two Counties, Two Different Asks
Two days before Election Day, two small West Virginia counties ask voters for very different things — Wirt County a nine point three million dollar bond toward a twenty-seven point three million dollar high school rebuild, and Summers County an operating levy it has not passed since nineteen...
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