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  • How one Texas non-profit is helping foster children learn and stay safe during the pandemic

    Jennifer Sanders

    December 14, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way foster care works. The SAFE Alliance, a merger of Austin Children’s Shelter and SafePlace, had to change the way they do things to ensure the safety of children and teens. “In late February we decided we needed to create a COVID-response team, so the executive team got together and created what we call a COVID coordinator.” Apart from implementing safety protocols, they also found ways to avoid staff burnout, and restructured their teen parent and early childhood programs.

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  • Cómo los educadores están encontrando a miles de estudiantes que no podían alcanzar cuando empezó la pandemia

    Jennifer Sanders Laney Valian Chelsea Moreno

    December 14, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Leander, Texas

    Una combinación de creación de redes informales y visitas de casa en casa permitieron a distritos escolares en Texas a rastrear estudiantes "perdidos" a raíz de la pandemia, y dejando lecciones sobre cómo fortalecer estas relaciones a futuro.

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  • State of Texas: Lawmakers weigh ‘solutions' proposed for education equity during pandemic

    Arezow Doost Josh Hinkle Jennifer Sanders Laney Valian Tahera Rahman John Thomas

    September 27, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    In Texas, 2 million households in the state don’t have high speed internet, affecting students of color at a greater rate. Some districts have also had problems with chronic absenteeism. This segment explores creative solutions enacted by different schools in Texas. In Lockhart ISD the district built seven cell phone towers to provide high speed internet to rural students who lived in dead zones. In Leander ISD, a librarian and a parent when door knocking to reconnect with absent bilingual students. In Manor ISD, a digital tracking system helped boost the rate of contactable students from 91 percent, to 99.

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  • How schools are finding thousands of students they couldn't reach when the pandemic began

    Jennifer Sanders

    September 18, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Leander, Texas

    For one school district in Texas, using personal relationships established before the pandemic, proved the best way to reach bilingual students in rural parts of the district who weren't showing up to remote classes. One librarian and a parent “went door-to-door there to track down students and find out how they could help families transition to virtual learning. They also had parents fill out note cards showing how many children lived in the home to make sure no child was left behind.” Other Texas districts are similarly relying on home visits to check on students. Data shows those methods work.

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