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      <news:title>Livingston&#39;s minutes never state a vote count, and closed-session votes are recorded without names</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/piscataway-nj/news/pway-2026-administrator-turnover</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:50:08.099Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>A new assistant superintendent, and four school leadership changes in one year</news:title>
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        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:50:08.099Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Phones off from the first bell to the last, including lunch</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/washington-township-gloucester-nj/news/wtps-2026-orchard-valley-guidance-and-nurse-cuts</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:44:20.962Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Orchard Valley Middle School set to lose a counsellor and its full nursing cover</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/washington-township-gloucester-nj/news/wtps-2026-09-superintendent-contract-not-renewed</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:44:20.962Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board votes 5-4 not to renew the superintendent&#39;s contract</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/westfield-nj/news/westfield-social-media-litigation</loc>
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        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:32:56.420Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board hires counsel to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/westfield-nj/news/westfield-policy-5516-phone-ban</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:32:56.420Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Phones banned bell to bell from the first day of school</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/westfield-nj/news/westfield-2026-referendum-bonds</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:32:56.420Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>$225.8 million school rebuilding programme reaches construction, with $125.8 million of bonds sold</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/west-new-york-nj/news/wny-virtual-plan-pandemic-era</loc>
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        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:31:57.223Z</news:publication_date>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:31:57.223Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>The mentoring a new teacher must complete to keep their licence may come out of their own pocket</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/west-new-york-nj/news/wny-accountability-pages-stale</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T03:23:58.794Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>The district&#39;s accountability and audit pages stop in 2021 and 2022, and its performance results are only a link to the state</news:title>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:title>The district enforces New Jersey&#39;s new all-day phone rule on a notice, while the board policy behind it still dates from 2016</news:title>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:title>Twelve board meetings in the past year, and not one agenda or set of minutes can be read outside the district&#39;s own document platform</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/township-of-union-nj/news/union-2026-09-enrollment-and-graduation</loc>
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        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:title>Enrolment steadies at about 7,770 and 93% graduate</news:title>
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      <news:title>The district renewed the system parents use to report bullying with no price and no account code</news:title>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:title>The emergency remote-learning plan adopted for 2026-27 is the district&#39;s 2022 pandemic document</news:title>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T02:58:54.825Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>State adjustment aid of $20.4 million fell to zero while payments to charter schools rose to $76.5 million</news:title>
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      <news:title>Sixteen new hires were rescinded weeks before opening day, and three parent liaison posts were abolished</news:title>
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        <news:name>ourschoolboard.org</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-30T02:58:54.825Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>The board ratified a $715,000 transfer out of the charter school payment line into health benefits after the money had already moved</news:title>
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      <news:title>A tenure charge listed for action after closed session was never voted on in public</news:title>
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      <news:title>Lead above the federal action level was found in 25 schools in 2022 and four in 2025; the district filed its compliance assurance two months late</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/trenton-nj/news/trenton-graduation-portfolio-appeals</loc>
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      <news:title>185 seniors were denied graduation, and most of those who graduated cleared the state requirement by appeal rather than by passing the test</news:title>
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      <news:publication>
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      <news:title>Trenton failed the state&#39;s accountability review on instruction and must file a district improvement plan by November 7</news:title>
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      <news:publication>
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      <news:title>The registers behind roughly $134 million of approved bills are not in the documents the board posts</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/trenton-nj/news/trenton-student-data-in-packet</loc>
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      <news:title>The board&#39;s public packet lists out-of-district students by initials alongside their disability classification and school</news:title>
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      <news:title>Board refused federal career and technical education funding for 2026-27</news:title>
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      <news:title>A parent tells the board Horace Mann has had three interim principals in four years</news:title>
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      <news:title>The plan for a new school is stalled, and the board argued about it in public</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/garfield-nj/news/garfield-2026-08-dress-code</loc>
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      <news:title>Phones off and in lockers all day from September</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/roxbury-township-nj/news/roxbury-device-and-ai-rules-not-published</loc>
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      <news:title>More of the budget comes from the state than from local taxes</news:title>
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      <news:title>Senior contracts handled behind closed doors as a board seat turns over</news:title>
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      <news:title>Ravine Drive Elementary changes principal after a long leave</news:title>
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      <news:title>A new five-year plan: Optimal Success: Forward by Design</news:title>
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      <news:title>Locking phone pouches stay for another year</news:title>
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      <news:title>Taxes held flat for years by spending down a large savings account</news:title>
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      <news:title>District&#39;s published budget summary is five years out of date</news:title>
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      <news:title>$1.7 million contract to supply substitute teachers</news:title>
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      <news:title>District maps out its next round of building work</news:title>
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      <news:title>District hires lawyers to fight its state aid figure</news:title>
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      <news:title>Phones banned during the school day under Policy 5516</news:title>
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      <news:title>Up to $8 million of energy work, paid for out of the savings it creates</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/gloucester-township-nj/news/gloucester-township-substitute-pay-cut-2026</loc>
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      <news:title>Four senior administrators left within a year</news:title>
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      <news:title>Local school taxes up 6% as state aid edges down</news:title>
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      <news:title>Board asked to hand custodial work to an outside company</news:title>
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      <news:title>Committee approves procurement process for a new Coventry High School well</news:title>
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      <news:title>Coventry High School has a new assistant principal</news:title>
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      <news:title>Preliminary FY2026 revenue could reduce Coventry’s deficit by about $2.6 million</news:title>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T16:15:32.274Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Budget projects $11.4 million General Fund deficit</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/raytown-c-2-mo/news/raytown-c-2-mo-2026-09-14-raytown-schools-power-outage-district-kept-students-on-campus</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T15:05:26.978Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Power outage disrupted multiple Raytown schools; district kept students on campus</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/dodge-city-ks/news/dodge-city-ks-2026-09-28-proposed-soule-basement-and-district-office-renovation-planning</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T14:57:04.540Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>USD 443 proposes design work for Soule basement conversion and office remodel</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/dodge-city-ks/news/dodge-city-ks-2026-09-28-district-proposes-free-breakfast-for-all-students-2026-27</loc>
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      <news:title>USD 443 proposes free breakfast for all students this school year</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/independence-30-mo/news/independence-30-mo-2026-09-08-proposed-60m-school-building-bonds</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T14:53:46.327Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board agenda proposes $60 million in school-building bonds</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/lees-summit-r-vii-mo/news/lees-summit-r-vii-mo-2026-09-29-2027-medical-plan-funding-increase-proposed</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:45:46.260Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>District proposes 10% increase in 2027 medical-plan funding</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/lees-summit-r-vii-mo/news/lees-summit-r-vii-mo-2026-09-29-hazel-grove-elementary-construction-contract</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:45:46.260Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board to consider $36.1 million Hazel Grove Elementary construction contract</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/lees-summit-r-vii-mo/news/lees-summit-r-vii-mo-2026-09-29-2026-tax-levy-increase-proposed</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:45:46.260Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board to consider a higher 2026–27 school tax levy</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/grain-valley-mo/news/grain-valley-mo-2026-09-17-proposed-under-one-mile-student-transportation</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:43:23.968Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>District to consider transportation for students living under one mile from school</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/council-bluffs-ia/news/council-bluffs-ia-2026-09-22-ymca-voluntary-preschool-cancelled-for-2026-27</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:38:40.733Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>YMCA voluntary preschool partnership canceled for this school year</news:title>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:38:40.733Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Council Bluffs reports consecutive general-fund deficits and low reserves</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/ketchikan-gateway-ak/news/ketchikan-gateway-ak-2026-09-18-board-considering-grade-span-confirmation</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:36:13.284Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board asked to confirm revised grade spans at three schools</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/ketchikan-gateway-ak/news/ketchikan-gateway-ak-2026-09-23-fy27-budget-review-projects-deficit</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T13:36:13.284Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>FY2027 review projects a $4.48 million deficit</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/marysville-ks/news/marysville-ks-2026-09-14-marysville-votes-to-leave-nckl-and-apply-to-big-east</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T01:15:00.113Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Marysville votes to leave NCKL and seek Big East membership</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/marshalltown-ia/news/marshalltown-ia-2026-09-21-employee-criminal-history-records-storage-remediation</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-29T00:07:13.906Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>District moves employee criminal-history records to more restricted storage</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/littleton-nh/news/littleton-nh-2026-09-08-littleton-elementary-assistant-principals</loc>
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      <news:publication>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-28T22:01:36.664Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Board approves two Littleton Elementary assistant principal appointments</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/littleton-nh/news/littleton-nh-2026-09-08-fy27-revenue-shortfall</loc>
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      <news:title>Littleton reports a $415,767 FY27 revenue gap</news:title>
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    <loc>https://ourschoolboard.org/district/iowa-city-ia/news/iowa-city-ia-2026-09-24-fatal-accident-at-school-of-the-wild-field-trip</loc>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-09-28T19:51:57.681Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Fatal accident during Borlaug School of the Wild field trip</news:title>
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