Nursing in Schools

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Parents slam new D.C. schools health plan that could reduce nurse coverage

by Perry Stein, October 27, 2016

Key Points: D.C. Department of health looking to use new formula to decide what schools have nurses and and how much coverage nurses provide. 

Relevance: Nurses play a large role in the health of public schools. They provide services to our students that are irreplaceable.

Success in Oregon Schools

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By Betsy Hammond in The Oregonian

October 13th, 2016

Key Points: Oregon's highest performing schools, student growth and standardized testing, exceptional teachers

Relevance: Generally, the highest performing schools are in areas of parents with high income or high educational backgrounds. This is not always the case in high performing schools, and this article shows some of the factors that make schools higher performing. 

"It takes courage"

While it is late in the posting game I thought I should still share my findings. This article: It Takes Courage to Make Schools Better, is from Edutopia. It was written by Maurice Elias on April 27th of this year. This article seems to be focused towards educators. This article points out that educators need to be courageous in standing up for the things that they believe need to change in schools. On that note it also points out ethical things that all schools should support when implementing courage in a school.