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School Funding Cuts and Student Success

If you’ve sensed a kind of slow-burning crisis unfolding in schools, you’re not alone. School budgets have been taking a serious hit, and the implications are becoming visibly stark. A study from England spanning 2015 to 2023 reveals that school funding cuts are directly linked to declining student performance in crucial exams like the GCSEs, […]

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Commentary

Antisemitism, Gaza, and School Psychology

Antisemitism, Gaza, and School Psychology: Why This Moment Is (Just as) Complicated As It Seems In December 2025, the American Psychological Association became the subject of a federal investigation led by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce over allegations of antisemitism. Reports included claims that Jewish psychologists experienced harassment, exclusion, and a lack […]

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Policy

Schooling Choices and Remote Options

In a bustling elementary school, during a seemingly regular Monday morning, Sarah, a caring but overwhelmed third-grade teacher, glanced at her classroom from her cluttered desk. The kids, though small in stature, carried the cumbersome weight of their oversized backpacks and perhaps more significantly, the invisible baggage of emotional challenges. A recent study reveals that […]

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Neurodevelopmental

Human Trafficking in Central America: Trends, Challenges, and Hope for Change

This article is cross-posted with our friends over at This Week in Public Health. Human trafficking is a widespread crisis throughout Central America, capturing countless children, women, and men into modern slavery. From forced labor on farms to sexual exploitation in illegal brothels, trafficking in persons violates fundamental human rights and creates serious public health […]

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Commentary

No, Secretary McMahon—the Shutdown Didn’t Prove Students Don’t Need the U.S. Department of Education

When the U.S. Secretary of Education claims that a 43-day government shutdown “proved just how little the Department of Education will be missed,” educators, school psychologists, families, and mental health advocates have an obligation to set the record straight. Not with partisan talking points but with facts, context, and the lived realities of our students. […]

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Policy

Next Week in Educational News, November 11, 2025

President Trump’s March executive order to dismantle the Department of Education—part of the Project 2025 agenda—has led to sweeping cuts that gutted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, laying off over two-thirds of its remaining staff and effectively halting enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which serves 7.5 million U.S. […]

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Academics

Is Exeter School District that Different from our Neighbors?

In our last post, we looked at what Exeter Township students shared about their post-graduation plans. A neighbor then asked how Exeter compares to nearby districts. While we couldn’t get as granular, since not all schools post this data on social media, we turned to publicly available data on the PA’s Future Ready site to examine school-level […]

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Policy

What Happens if the Department of Education is Abolished? The Future of U.S. Schools

Education in America is at a crossroads. While schools should be spaces where all children can thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally– the current federal policy agenda threatens to unravel critical federal protections, funding, and programs designed to support students’ well-being. Project 2025, spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation and a coalition of conservative organizations, presents a radical […]

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Governance

Decolonizing School Psychology: Centering Indigenous Voices

Picture a classroom where every child feels valued, seen, and supported—a place where their cultural identity isn’t just acknowledged but celebrated. Now, imagine the opposite: a system where outdated norms ignore the lived realities of Indigenous students, contributing to cycles of inequity and exclusion. This isn’t just a hypothetical scenario; it’s the reality for many […]

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Policy

Project 2025 and the Future of Education

Well, here we are, looking at an incoming Trump administration. The best predictions we have so far for the policy implications for school mental health are the secretary’s (Linda McMahon) course and the 2025 Mandate for Leadership document from the Heritage Foundation, also known as Project 2025. Project 2025 proposes sweeping changes to education policy […]

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