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Aligned Case Study
For over four decades, AdventHealth Shawnee Mission (formerly Shawnee Mission Hospital) in Merriam, Kansas, has stood out by offering onsite childcare, a unique benefit that began in 1979 to attract and retain top healthcare talent. Candy Seltman was recruited to…
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Update – August 2024
This month’s highlights: Top News – The number of college closures has surged dramatically, with at least 30 institutions shutting down in 2023 and a rate of one per week in 2024, starkly higher than the previous highest annual closure rate…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: Earlier today, the Missouri House gave the final approval to the state’s operating budget for FY25, and earlier this week, Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed SB 727 into law. Together, these actions will result in the biggest boost to education funding…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: A report published by the 74 examines the ongoing challenges in education, particularly the complex relationship between school spending, equity, and student outcomes. Missouri Update: The House sent IP reform back to the Senate, and the…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: The Missouri House passed a massive education bill that doubles state investment in early childhood education and provides more flexibility and incentives to address teacher recruitment and retention challenges. This bill aligns with Aligned’s top…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – A generation questions the value of college. Missouri Update – House experiments with a short and sweet week. Kansas Update – Legislature works well past midnight to pass bills before Spring Break adjournment. Additional Highlights – Grandmother of Aligned board…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – American social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt took the media by storm with the publication of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Aligned takes a closer look at…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – The Kansas State Department of Education has embarked on a new initiative to revolutionize teacher recruitment and retention through a Registered Teacher Apprenticeship program for the Fall 2024. Missouri Update – The Missouri General Assembly was…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – States like Missouri and Kansas have proposals that could provide tax incentives and regulatory relief for childcare providers to help buoy the broken business model that forces some providers to shutter their doors. Missouri Update – The Missouri Senate underwent…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Forbes writer argues, “There is no teacher shortage. There’s a teacher recruitment and retention problem. There’s a ‘making the job attractive enough to draw in the people we want’ problem.” Missouri Update – The Missouri General Assembly cut its…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Kansas Governor Laura Kelly unveiled plans to generate 458 additional childcare slots through an investment of nearly $28 million in Capital Projects Fund Accelerator (CPF Accelerator) awards across seven communities in the state. Missouri Update – Week 6 is in the books and…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Dysfunction reigned supreme as members of the newly formed Freedom Caucus clashed with Senate leaders over the Republican caucus’s priority of initiative petition reform. The Senate floor witnessed fiery exchanges, a historic motion, and a filibuster that…
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