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Policy Updates
Preparing School Leaders for Crises
Leadership preparation programs and state and district leaders all have a role to play in building principals’ capacity to face crises with resilience and lead in ways that best serve students and support and retain teachers.
Building Trauma-Informed School Systems
This analysis highlights ways states can embed trauma-informed practices in mandated teacher training and ensure that schools reduce the risks to teachers from STS.
State Strategies to Advance Digital Equity
By spearheading efforts to collect data, collaborate with partners, buy digital devices and infrastructure, and reimagine effective technology use, several states have made strides toward digital equity in schools.
States Build Support for Students Who Are Homeless
Several states are leveraging $800 million under the American Rescue Plan’s Homeless Children and Youth Program to better address the short- and long-term needs of students experiencing homelessness.
Empowering Youth to Prevent Suicide
This NASBE analysis highlights state action examples, identifies multipronged approaches to youth suicide prevention, and discusses federal funding opportunities available to states to support peer-to-peer programming.
Reengaging Students through Physical Activity
By creating an inclusive culture for physical education and physical activity, state boards can help ensure that every student learns to lead a healthy, active life.
Using Federal Funds to Remediate Lead
This NASBE analysis highlights ways state leaders can leverage the current policy climate and available federal funds to better support school districts in lead remediation so that all children have access to clean drinking water in schools.
Promoting School Nurses as Leaders in Reopening Schools
This analysis describes how state boards of education and other state stakeholders can partner with school nurses and state school nurse leaders in forming guidance and making decisions about transitions back to school.