Setting Clear Health-based Criteria is Key to School Reopening Decisions
This policy update outlines ways in which states such as Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, and Nebraska offer state guidance on reopening criteria.
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States Prioritize Stakeholder Engagement, Continuity Plans in School Reopening Guidance
A new NASBE Policy Update outlines trends in state reopening guidance for the new school year.
Leadership Exchange for Adolescent Health Promotion
LEAHP is a learning collaborative of multi-sector, state-level leadership teams with the goal to develop state-specific action plans in support of policy assessment, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation to address adolescent health in three priority areas: sexual health education, sexual health services, and safe and supportive environments in schools.
State Boards Should Explore Health-Related Causes of Chronic Absence
For Immediate Release: February 21, 2019 Contact: Renee Rybak Lang, renee.lang@nasbe.org, 703-740-4841 State Boards Should Explore Health-Related Causes of Chronic Absence Alexandria, VA—During the 2015–16 school year, about one in seven students was chronically absent, missing at least 10 percent of school days. An early warning sign of academic risk and school dropout, chronic absence […]
Strengthening State Policy to Keep Schoolchildren Safe from Anaphylaxis
This webinar is now on-demand! Watch the full event here An increasing number of children in the United States suffer from food allergies. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of children with food allergies rose about 50 percent between 1997 and 2011. Nearly 6 million U.S. […]
School Improvement
The purpose of public schools is to educate all students to high standards, prepare them for productive careers, and encourage them to be life-long learners (1997). NASBE asserts that school improvement is, fundamentally: A moral imperative in that a high-quality education is a civil right; A civic imperative in that a highly educated citizenry understands […]
Supporting School Nutrition: New Research and State Policy Action
The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA) was passed in 2010, but it continues to heavily influence school nutrition environments as USDA promulgates the regulations. Join NASBE September 16, 2014, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., as we discuss what states and school districts can expect under the new HHFKA school breakfast and school fundraising guidelines that […]
Improving Physical Activity and Physical Education from State Policy to School Practices (2010)
State and district leaders are responding to the need for policies to improve the nutrition and physical activity environments in schools. But just putting new policies in place is not enough—sustained support and attention to how well the policies are working are required to significantly impact nutrition and physical activity behaviors and reverse trends in […]
States Ramp Up Efforts to Combat Student Substance Abuse
Added concerns about the pandemic’s impact on youth mental and physical health and recent spikes in adolescent mortality rates due to illicit fentanyl use have spurred some states to reexamine how they approach substance abuse education and prevention in schools, according to a new NASBE policy update.
States Leverage Covid Relief Funds for Early Childhood Workforce Recovery
A new NASBE analysis outlines state investments in ECE workforce recovery through compensation and benefits, mental health and well-being supports, and professional development opportunities.