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Empowering Families to Improve Youth Mental Health
State education leaders can foster children’s mental health by increasing families’ preparedness and awareness of available resources and activities.
read moreBeyond Testing for Lead in Drinking Water: Implications for Funding
While most states encourage or require schools to test for lead in drinking water, funding to sustain remediation lags—despite significant federal grants designed to boost those efforts.
read moreChronic Absence: A Call for Deeper Student and Family Engagement
Connecticut's experience underscores the value of a positive, systemic approach to improving attendance.
read moreStudent Voice: Removing Barriers to Student Leadership
It is important to encourage students to engage with a wide variety of policymakers.
read moreNCSBEE Voice: Harnessing Students' Expertise in Communications
When [students] help us create and when we collaborate, we are inspired, and we are more knowledgeable when we write policy and advocate on their behalf.
read moreA Culturally Responsive School Leadership Approach to Developing Equity-Centered Principals: Considerations for Principal Pipelines
How could school districts construct principal pipelines that produce school leaders who advance equity in education? A team of scholars offers ideas in this Wallace Foundation report.
read moreParliamentary Procedures: Key to Democratic Decision Making on State Boards
State boards of education often have important responsibilities for decisions on education policy, among other duties that require consensus. A grasp of the basic elements of parliamentary procedure is therefore important for the well-equipped board member.
read moreStates Take Measures to Ensure Students’ Access to Menstrual Products in Schools
New NASBE analysis highlights how states have increasingly opted to combat “period poverty.”
read moreStates Address Access to Menstrual Products in Schools
States such as Georgia, New York, Utah, and others have increasingly opted to combat “period poverty" by expanding access to free menstrual products in schools.
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