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INBOX: SCHOOL FUNDING 鈥� The marquee K-12 event this week is the House Education and Labor Committee hearing on school funding, called 鈥淯npaid Teachers and Crumbling Schools: How Underfunding Public Education Shortchanges America鈥檚 Students.鈥�

The hearing, the first the new Democratic majority in the House will hold on K-12 issues, comes on the heels of increasing focus on school infrastructure, as well as mounting labor unrest among teachers across the country.

said 2018 had the highest number of strikes and lockouts (20) since 2007, and the largest number of employees affected (485,000) since 1986. Teachers made up the majority of those stoppages, with more than 375,000 employees in 鈥渆ducational services鈥� out of work at some point last year. The two largest strikes of the year were attributed to teachers in Arizona and Oklahoma.

Educators in and could strike this week.

Total spending on public schools in the U.S. was about $678 billion in the 2015-16 school year, . The numbers vary by state, but overall, it was the third year in a row that spending increased after a dip following the great recession. Funding mostly came from state (47 percent) and local (45 percent) revenues with the remaining 8 percent from the federal government.

2020 WATCH: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar will , widely believed to be about a presidential run. Klobuchar cited her mother鈥檚 career as a schoolteacher and her daughter鈥檚 experience with disability as a young child in a .

TUESDAY: FAMILY SEPARATION 鈥� The House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees hold simultaneous hearings on the Trump administration鈥檚 moves this summer that led to the separation of children and parents at the southern border.

will conduct general oversight and hear from leaders in Customs and Border Protection, the Justice Department, and the Health and Human Services Department that oversaw care of the separated children. will look at agencies鈥� failure to produce documents about the policy.

TUESDAY: CIVICS 鈥� The Thomas B. Fordham Institute holds the , this one focused on civics. Eliot Cohen, of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, will argue that civics promotes 鈥減atriotic history,鈥� while Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs, will 鈥渕ake the case for reasserting the role of education in character formation.鈥�

TUESDAY: MILITARY ACADEMIES & SEXUAL ASSAULT 鈥� Two subcommittees hear testimony on the nation鈥檚 military academies. In the morning, an on Defense hears a general overview from the leaders of the Military Academy, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academy.

In the afternoon, an hears testimony on the academies鈥� plans to address a new . Military academies , the federal law governing how schools handle allegations of sexual misconduct.

TUESDAY: STEM EDUCATION 鈥� The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hold a day-long conference to discuss two recent reports on STEM education, one on , and the other on .

TUESDAY: HIGHER ED 鈥� Three panels of experts , a libertarian think tank, to 鈥渟crutinize many of the most popular suspects for higher ed鈥檚 decline and … debate potential policy changes to which their conclusions point.鈥�

WEDNESDAY: THE BENEFITS OF READING ALOUD 鈥� 鈥渢he latest neuroscience and behavioral research linking reading aloud to cognitive and social-emotional benefits for young children鈥� at the American Enterprise Institute.

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