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  • Canada's largest school district ended its police program. Now Toronto may be an example for U.S. districts considering the same.

    Kalyn Belsha

    June 19, 2020 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Prompted by Black Lives Matter protesters and informed by a controversial survey of high school students on their feelings about having police stationed in their schools, Toronto pulled police from its schools in 2017 and since then has refuted warnings of a spike in misbehavior and crime. While arrest numbers and data on students’ current feelings about safety are unknown, Canada’s largest school system at least proved that it could address unhappiness with a police presence without decreasing safety.

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  • Charter operators are offering online degrees as a plan B for their alumni

    Kalyn Belsha

    January 08, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    In addition to encouraging students to pursue higher education, charter school networks have started to follow up with alumni who end up dropping out of college, offering them alternative paths to a degree, such as online classes.

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  • In Kansas City, a lesson in transforming closed schools

    Kalyn Belsha

    January 24, 2017 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    When public schools close, what can communities do with the buildings? Kansas City hired an urban planner to help repurpose school buildings to better engage the community and enabled non-profits a chance to purchase the old properties. This school reuse excelled from increasing the transparency of the decision-making process and “creative financing.”

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