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      <description><![CDATA[About 18% of U.S. public school teachers entered the classroom through an alternative route, per NCES — here is how the licensure pathway actually works, who uses it, and what it pays.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A rule meant to curb fraud in the $5.2 billion school-internet program is drawing warnings that small and rural districts will carry the heaviest new paperwork load.]]></description>
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