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| BUILDING A TRAUMA-SENSITIVE

Years of Work
But Still
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'Nobody
Learns It
In a Day'

Activist Auditor
Decries W.Va.'s

be able to trust
dingtoData
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'You're supp

By Sarah D. Sparks
Bethlehem, N.H.

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daughter tightly during
a mass shooting
in El Paso, Texas, where

holds her
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outside the Walmart
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took place this month.

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the vaping trend started a time when the standards
study in thefooted
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mental evaluatio
stem the
ance polinationdate, covering
es, froma strict zero-toler
tervention to
approach
y suspensions
cies that came with mandator
or with vaping
for students caught vaping
to programs that
paraphernalia on campus,
middle school stuteach high school and
dents the dangers of vaping.
started to reBut educators had already
ry approach before
consider their disciplina
concerns.
the rash of new medical
School in HartAt Arrowhead Union High
from Milwaukee,
land, Wis., about 27 miles
devices in the bathadministrators installed
that detect vaping
rooms over the summer
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Photos by Brittany

waged war
As West Virginia's teachers
over the fate of
with politicians last year
and rapidly
the state's financially strapped
State Auditor
shrinking public schools,
the road, preachJohn "JB" McCuskey hit
ncy during
ing his gospel of fiscal transpare
meetings
board
school
dozens of late-night
listen.
to any official willing to
them. Rebuild
Open your books, he told
see exactly how
trust by letting the public
of dollars you're
you spend thel millions
By Corey Mitchel
provided each year.
system,
Mich.
Flint,
Virginia's public school
West
, logistiof technical
a series
of of
y
because
alarmingl
surfaced
Years after reports
hurdles, is one of the
cal, and political
system, the toll
high lead levels in the water
ent bodies in the
last major
At least 1 in 5
clear: governm
of the crisis is becomingto detail for its citizens exactly how
state schools are eligible
PAGE 14 >
students in Flint's public
the school sysfor special education-and
weight of federal
tem is buckling under the
for providing prorequirements and costs
grams and services.
education stuThe percentage of special
56 percent, rising
dents has increased by
the school year
from 13.1 percent in 2012-13,
to 20.5 percent
before the water crisis began,
last school year.
Teachers are
Schools are understaffed.
frustrated.
overwhelmed. Parents are
Onstott,
Maxine
said
"It's been a fight,"
special educaa leader of a citywide
Her autistic
tion parent-advocate group.
iano, began kin6-year-old son, Maximill
[are] a lot of
dergarten this month. "There
are not getting the
children right now that
that are not getting
services they need and
to get from the
the support they deserve
schools."
foreshadow
The fallout in Flint could
Schools across
problems in other districts.
elevated lead levels
the country have found
in drinking water.
American Civil
In a suit brought by the
, the Education
Liberties Union of Michigan
York-based firm
Law Center, and the New
representing Flint
of Case & White, lawyers
school system, the
families have sued the
nt, and the
Michigan education departme
PAGE 14 >

for her
to get special education
center, said she is struggling
Parent advocate
FROM TOP: Ebony Dixon,
Gibson, 7, in Flint, Mich.
6, and her son, Torea
many families are having
daughter, Alexus Smith,
Maximilliano, 6, said
cuddling with her son
of the water crisis.
Maxine Onstott, shown
disabilities in the wake
help for their children's
a hard time getting

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By Sarah Schwartz
Philadelphia

Library
In a quiet room at the historic
here, a group
Company of Philadelphia
teachers were
of middle and high school
studying a massacre.
a sumin
nts
The teachers, participa
the Gilder
mer course offered through
American HisLehrman Institute of
sources
tory, were examining primary
event in Pennfrom one consequential
century attack
sylvania's past: an 18th
Indian tribe
on the Susquehannock

by white colonists.
around foldGathering in small groups
ld maps,
ing tables laden with 250-year-o
the teachers
pamphlets, and images,
the documents
thought aloud about what
what quesand
students-
their
could tell
answer.
tions the pages couldn't
informa"Even before getting into
said Mark
tion-wh o wrote this?"
school history
Stetina, a local middle
cartoon
teacher, poring over a political
introduce
and imagining how he would
almost more
it to his students. "Then,
he said.
important is-who's missing?"

voices was
This question of missing
, part of a
central to the day's workshop
called
project at the Library Company
library has
Redrawi ng History. The
ts about
digitized hundreds of documen
none are from
this massacre, but almost
the orNow,
Native American sources.
native artists
ganization is working with
novel that
to create an original graphic
of those voices.
attempts to recover some
offered
For teachers, the workshop
and lessons on
a look into the archives
ing novel. And
how to use the forthcom
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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

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Recession Jitters
Revive Memories
Of Past Downturn
By Andrew Ujifusa
e the naIf there's one painful experienc
recent history,
tion's schools share from
. It's something no
it's the Great Recession
ut with anxieducator is keen to relive-b
in
downturn
economic
ety rising about an
it's possible they
the not-too-distant future,
won't have a choice.
for the economy
Forecasting such a change
how
is projecting
is notoriously difficult, as
would respond.
policymakers and schools
signs there's
But amid the economic warning
, in addition
the recognition that a recession
and spending,
to shrinking K-12 budgets
have developed
could upend policies that
eqprioritized
have
that
over the past decade
resources.
other
and
funding
uitable
nces and
And it's unlikely the circumsta
same as those from
response would be the
when Congress
more than a decade ago,
Obama's adminisand President Barack
Great Recession
tration responded to the
to both K-12 and
by directing $100 billion
the 2009 Amerihigher education through
ent Act, comcan Recovery and Reinvestm
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Native
Americans
And other
Groups

Jo Arnone

e traumatic
stability. Students who experienc
ally and cog1
stress perform worse academic
reported worse
nitively, and their teachers
, according to a
behavior in the classroom
2016 meta-analysis.
Nearly half
students.
of
lot
a
And that's
been exposed to at
of all U.S. children have
according to the
least one traumatic event,
than 1 in 5 have
latest federal data, and more
been exposed to several.
trauma-s ensitive
decade,
last
In the
by the emergschooling has spread, driven
natural and maning research, devastating
discipline demade disasters, and school
special education
bates. Federal laws on
schools to use
e
encourag
now
and poverty
and more than
trauma-informed practices,
laws or crea dozen states have passed
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Schools Tackle
Vaping Amid New
Health Problems

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in
Elementary School
education class at Bethlehem
dealing with trauma.
s his mood during physical
supportive of students
color block that represent
schools that are more
MacElhiney slaps the
experiment to build
First grader Conner
way in a statewide
school is leading the
New Hampshire. The

scientific picThere's never been a clearer
experiences and
ture of the ways damaging
hurt a child's abilintense, chronic stress can
for many schools,
ity to learn in school. But
schoolnsitive
the picture of what trauma-se
is still developing.
ing looks like in practice
because there's
"We're in an all-fired hurry
we have to help our
this 'trauma' thing and
the director of the
kids," said Melissa Sadin,
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Special Ed.
Surge Strains
Flint Schools
And Families

Kaitlyn Dolan

Daarel Burnette II
Sarah Rice for Education

as much as Wake
Few districts have done
its schools racially
County, N.C., has to keep
diverse.
and socioeconomically
board says it
It is a battle that the school
has been losing.
in Wake County,
Now, the school board
capital of Raleigh,
which includes the state
it wants to reverse
has publicly declared that
g numbers of its
a trend where increasin
poor or affluschools are overwhelmingly
gly separated
ent, and as a result, increasin
in North Carolina
by race. In the county, as
predominantly poor
as a whole, schools with
more inexperiand minority students have
rated by the state
enced teachers and fewer
the children may
as effective, even though
needs.
have the highest academic
able to slow the
If any district might be
County, the nation's
trend, it would be Wake
16th largest school system.
The question is, will it?
ion about
Wake County's latest conversat
earlier this summer,
school diversity started
the Democratic
just a few weeks before
propelled courtpresidential debate that
role that
the
d
ordered desegregation-an
it-back into the
busing played to achieve
Striving for racially
national consciousness.
schools has long
and economically mixed
community
been part of Wake County's
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