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一 |     NEW YORK -- Bloomberg Philanthropies unveiled a $50 million initiative Wednesday to help cities address global issues, including climate change, by launching programs proven effective in other cities around the world.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will give city governments grants for startup costs and technical support, as well as sponsor trips and webinars to inform leaders about new programs.“Cities are a force for change on all of the big challenges we’re facing, and we’ve long worked to spread the best ideas globally,” Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, said in a statement. “This new Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will intensify and expand those efforts, bringing new muscle and rigor to the replication process.”The new initiative, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Washington on Wednesday, formalizes a process that CityLab has used for years. As former mayor of New York City, Bloomberg knows the importance of seeking out ideas that other cities have already proven, said James Anderson, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation Program.“He understood the unique opportunity that city leaders have to drive progress locally, but also contribute to driving around global issues like climate change,” Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview. “We looked around and we understood very quickly that many city halls did not have the capacity they needed to find solutions and to implement them locally, to make them more ambitious and move their cities and the world forward.”They decided that philanthropy could play an important role in helping cities launch innovative programs and then unlock further funding from governments or other donors, Anderson said.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange builds on the success of programs like an environmental initiative in Lincoln, Nebraska, that turns wood waste into a charcoal-like material called biochar that reduces the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.In 2022, the city received a $400,000 grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch the program and it has already made a difference in the city, said Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. The biochar — which the city produces from trees blown down in storms or damaged by the emerald ash borer beetle — traps carbon, conserves water and improves the soil.“We have ambitious climate action goals,” Gaylor Baird said. “And we’re looking for innovative solutions to help us sequester carbon and improve quality of life and also just deal with some of the impacts of changing weather patterns.”Without the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, Lincoln would not have been able to launch the biochar initiative so quickly, Gaylor Baird said. Or receive a $100,000 grant from the Nebraska Forest Service.Mattias Gustafsson, co-founder of the consulting firm EcoTopic and the project manager of the Stockholm Biochar Initiative, which the Lincoln project is modeled after, said he is “proud and amazed” to see the idea replicated around the world. In the United States, Cincinnati and Minneapolis have also launched biochar projects, along with Helsinki, Darmstadt, Germany, Helsingborg, Sweden, and Sandnes, Norway – all with help from Bloomberg Philanthropies.“Cities are really crucial for fighting climate change because they have a different angle coming in,” Gustafsson said. “Cities are not trying to make a profit. They are trying to do something good for their citizens.”The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange is designed to help cities in that effort, Anderson said. Numerous projects, highlighted by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Mayors Challenge, have already been replicated by cities around the world.The Providence Talks program in Rhode Island, which helps young children learn by increasing the number of words they hear each day, has been adopted by Birmingham, Alabama. The Visor Urbano program in Guadalajara, Mexico, which allows businesses to receive licenses completely online, has already expanded to 100 other cities in Mexico and will soon launch in other Latin American cities. Anderson said that city officials receive so much real time feedback from their residents that they are always looking for new ideas to help them do their jobs better.“They don’t spend as much time giving speeches and engaging in partisanship because they’re in the business of delivering services that people count on every single day,” he said. “There’s an accountability to residents to bring solutions that make a difference in their lives that are visible and measurable. And the cities understand that sometimes those ideas can come from entrepreneurs at home and other times it’s great to steal those ideas from the city down the street.”____Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.。    秋季学期开学临近，关于义务教育均衡编班的话题和新闻引发社会的关注。均衡编班也叫平行分班、阳光分班，是指在小学和初中起始年级全面实施免试就近入学，不依据学生成绩、特长等设立或变相设立重点班、实验班、快慢班。按照教育部的要求，从今年开始，全面推进义务教育均衡编班。在均衡编班方面，走在了全国前列。

二 | 从2022年起，石家庄等地就通过电脑随机派位方式均衡编班。

三 | 今年，又明确提出，全面实施师资均衡配置、学生随机分班，合理制定方案，实现各班级学生在人数、性别等方面的基本均衡。学校分班方案、过程及结果应向家长公开，主动接受监督，确保程序公开透明。均衡编班是阳光招生的重要一环。2024年以来，教育部连续三年部署开展义务教育阳光招生专项行动，全面规范义务教育招生入学工作。

四 | 教育公平，起点在于入学机会的公平。如何做好阳光招生，是摆在各级教育行政管理部门和学校面前的一道必答题。做好阳光招生，首先要合理划定招生片区范围。属地教育行政部门要健全常住学龄人口变化监测预警制度，开展各学段入学人数和现有学位摸底，提前做好预判应对。科学合理划定学校招生片区，对出现学校布局调整、学龄人口变化较大等情况的，可在科学评估、广泛征求意见的基础上适当调整片区范围，并提前向社会公布。

五 | 把普通高中纳入阳光招生专项行动，是今年的一大亮点。教育部要求，部属高校附中、省属高中、设区的城市高中，一律不得违规面向县域掐尖招生，切实保障县域普通高中发展空间。为了让不同学校的学生同样拥有升入优质高中的机会，持续放大指标到校政策效能，省级示范性普通高中将不低于80%招生名额分配到区域内初中学校。

六 | 针对“意向登记”“保底协议”等违规乱象，明令禁止提前签约、收取意向金，杜绝招生与捐资助学、教育赞助相挂钩，守护高中阶段招生的公平秩序。阳光招生，既要管住学校的招生行为，也要兜牢特殊群体的入学保障。专项行动把保障重点群体入学作为八项重点任务之一，要求全面落实“两为主、两纳入、以居住证为主要依据”的随迁子女入学政策。

七 | 人口集中流入地区要持续加大公办学校学位供给和招生计划，不断提高随迁子女在公办学校就读比例。

八 | 做好特殊群体入学保障，各地教育行政部门坚持应入尽入原则，通过普通学校随班就读、特教学校就读、送教上门等方式，妥善、适宜安置适龄残疾儿童少年接受义务教育。

九 | 面对多子女家庭现实诉求，各地因地制宜落实“长幼随学”实施办法，在学位允许前提下，方便多孩家庭子女同校就读，体现政策温度。做好阳光招生，还要简化手续，做好“教育入学一件事”。要加快推进户籍、房产、居住证、社保、学籍等入学相关信息的互通共享，制订“教育入学一件事”办事指引清单，线上业务办理实现报名、审核、录取等“一网通办”。阳光招生，是一场制度性重构。从“掐尖”被禁止，到分班被规范，再到指标到校被落实，阳光招生正在从政策要求变成实实在在的民生红利。（王敬照）。

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