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CER Daily Media Clips for February 15, 2021
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Welcome to the Media Bullpen, powered by CER. While the Bullpen has been around, we are now making this service available to our most active friends and colleagues each day. Just click on the news outlet to go directly to the article. To see all the news from the day and past weeks, months and even years, click on the Bullpen logo. Let’s all get in the game for education. Batter up! ______________________________________
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Feb 15, 2021 | FOX News | federal policy |
National
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued guidance saying that vaccinations are not required for in-person learning. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | NBC News | remote learning |
National
The study by NBC News and Challenge Success is one of the first to shed light on differences between students who are online-only and those in classrooms.
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Feb 15, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | remote learning |
National
Districts were hesitant to make cameras a requirement in the fall, out of respect for family privacy. Besides increasing anxiety for some kids, the live look into students’ living quarters—not only by teachers, but also by fellow students—might pose equity issues. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | private schools |
National
Across California, and indeed across the country, private schools like Santa Fe Christian had a major incentive to reopen: many parents likely would have a hard time justifying paying thousands of dollars in tuition for an inferior online product.
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Feb 15, 2021 | New York Times | school districts |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Elementary schools have been open for months. As the city prepares to reopen middle schools, problems remain, but there is also cause for optimism. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Washington Post | elected officials |
States, South, Virginia
Democrats in the House of Delegates are set to unveil legislation on Monday to get students across Virginia back into public school classrooms by summer, signaling a way forward for a topic that has become increasingly politically urgent as the coronavirus pandemic drags on. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | GoLocalProv | accountability |
States, Northeast, Rhode Island
An ad hoc roundtable of Rhode Island school superintendents, education union leaders, school committee members and others released a framework of goals and objectives this week to address the “urgent need to slow and reverse pandemic-related learning loss in students statewide.
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Feb 15, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | accountability |
Towns, States, West, California
A Times survey of more than 20 school districts throughout Los Angeles County in the past two weeks has found that districts in wealthier, whiter communities such as La Cañada are more likely to be moving full steam ahead to reopen elementary schools and have plans in place to welcome students back as soon as permitted — within as little as two weeks if coronavirus infection rates continue to decline. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Chicag Sun-Times | remote learning |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
CPS has said it plans to make no changes to remote learning, which Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates said is a “slap in the face” for students who will continue to take classes from home. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Boston Globe | learning pods |
Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts
When school buildings abruptly closed last spring, many wealthy families quickly pooled their resources to pay for private teachers, academic coaches, and art instructors to supplement their children’s at-home schooling in small groups, or “learning pods. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Capital Gazette | teachers unions |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
The Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County has planned a car caravan to voice their demands for a safer school reopening and “equitable, fair” salaries ahead of the approval of the fiscal year 2022 budget this week. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Baltimore Sun | teachers unions |
States, South, Maryland
As many Maryland school districts prepare to return to classrooms for the first time in nearly a year, local teachers unions are staring down a deadline with a decision: How hard should they push back against reopening plans they believe put their health and lives in danger?
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Feb 15, 2021 | Argus Observer | online learning |
Towns, States, West, Oregon
Enrollment numbers for the 2020-21 school year show schools in Malheur County as pretty near the mark for the prior enrollment year which finished amidst the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Chicago Tribune | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
But parents could just as easily choose not to send their kids to this charter school. As a result, we teachers worked smart and we worked hard to make sure we delivered a high-quality educational experience. We had to earn and re-earn our customers every single day. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Chicago Tribune | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
The differences between the traditionally-funded public schools I was familiar with and this charter school were inconsequential. In the end, what this charter school offered was the illusion of choice. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Northwest Arkansas Democrat | charter schools |
States, South, Arkansas
The LISA Academy charter school system that enrolls more than 3,200 students in Little Rock, North Little Rock and Springdale is seeking state approval for a semi-virtual school for 1,050 in kindergarten-through-12th grades. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | WBEZ | school districts |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Reopening high schools is a more complicated process than restarting elementary schools — and it’ll likely come with more disagreements. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | CapRadio | private schools |
States, West, California
New state mapping data details California’s school-reopening divide, in which hundreds of school districts — mostly smaller and rural or inland — are offering in-person instruction to elementary students while many of the state’s largest, urban districts remain indefinitely in remote learning. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Albuquerque Journal | accountability |
Towns, States, West, New Mexico
On behalf of our community’s children, their academic future and life opportunities, and our state’s economic well-being, the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce urges local and state leaders to take the following actions concerning public education and our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Sentinel Source | school choice |
States, Northeast, New Hampshire
Once again, New Hampshire’s Republican lawmakers, backed by Gov. Chris Sununu and Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, are taking aim at public education in the state. And once again, the weapon of choice — is choice. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | South Bend Tribune | accountability |
Towns, States, Midwest, Indiana
Two models being considered — a school redesign and an innovation network — would bring considerable autonomy to the operation of two South Bend elementary schools on the cusp of state intervention. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Dallas Morning News | federal budget |
States, South, Texas
Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks brought on by the pandemic, but school leaders aren’t so sure they’ll have the flexibility to spend new federal dollars to help them. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Boulder Daily Camera | charter schools |
Towns, States, West, Colorado
Boulder Valley’s charter schools are starting to add more in-person options for students, especially at the secondary level, as teachers begin getting vaccinated and new coronavirus cases decline.
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Feb 15, 2021 | The Columbus Dispatch | higher education |
States, Midwest, Ohio
When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered Central Ohio Technical College's Newark campus in March, administrators found themselves needing to rethink everything.
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Feb 15, 2021 | Pocono Record | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Of the 179 charter schools in Pennsylvania, only one is located in Monroe County. Two proposed charter schools in the Poconos are set on changing that, but it's been anything but easy thanks to a multi-year battle with one school district in particular. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | The St. Louis American | charter schools |
States, Midwest, Missouri
At Tuesday night’s board of education meeting, a resolution calling for a moratorium on the construction of new schools passed unanimously, with a 7-0 vote. Some Charter school advocates in St. Louis, however, see this move as a strike against the development of the school-choice movement.
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Feb 15, 2021 | Omaha World-Herald | school choice |
States, Midwest, Nebraska
Omaha special education advocate Clarice Jackson fights for school choice every year, but 2021 could be big. Legislatures in more than half the states, including Nebraska, will debate proposals that would make private education more accessible for low-income families. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Des Moines Register | school choice |
States, Midwest, Iowa
As they have pushed legislation that would set up Iowa’s first educational savings account program, Gov. Kim Reynolds and other Republicans have touted the plan as an all-around benefit for Iowa students. Read More...
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Feb 15, 2021 | Herald-Dispatch | teachers unions |
States, South, West Virginia
Bills on schedule to pass the state House of Delegates this week would allow faster charter school expansion, promote online charter schools and give parents public money for non-public schooling. Read More...
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