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Your Daily News Clips for February, 17 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for February 17, 2021

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Not as easy as it sounds: Educators, CDC say schools need more resources to reopen (CER in the news)

Feb 17, 2021 | WHAM | federal budget | National

The roadmap to reopen schools seems straightforward enough: follow five mitigation steps and students and teachers can return to the classroom. But while the evidence suggests that in-person learning can resume safely, public health officials and educators say schools need more resources to put the strategies in place.

Biden reframes goal on reopening of elementary schools

Feb 17, 2021 | Associated Press | federal policy | National

President Joe Biden is promising a majority of elementary schools will be open five days a week by the end of his first 100 days in office, restating his goal after his administration came under fire when aides said schools would be considered open if they held in-person learning just one day a week.

School Reopening Pits Parents Against Teachers: Is There a Word Beyond ‘Frustrating’?

Feb 17, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | parent power | National

Parents and officials who favor reopening for in-person education say their own experiences confirm research showing that children are being harmed academically, emotionally and physically by the isolation of remote learning. Kids, they argue, need to be back in classrooms as soon as possible.

Column: Micro schools - The coming educational revolution

Feb 17, 2021 | The Gainesville Sun | innovation | National

Micro schools are growing in number in such states as California, Washington and North Carolina. When one objectively examines the concept, it is one of the few educational reforms with much potential for success and little downside.

Catholic schools superintendent explains why vast majority of her students are back in class

Feb 17, 2021 | Fox News | catholic schools | National

In contrast to the political battle surrounding the reopening of public schools, the vast majority of America's Catholic schools are open for either in-person or hybrid learning, Partnership Schools Superintendent Kathleen Porter-Magee told “America Reports” Tuesday.

Opinion: The COVID pandemic has given us a road map to transform education for the better

Feb 17, 2021 | USA Today | innovation | National

Education has been deeply effected by the pandemic but this can be an opportunity to create new and innovative resources for learning.

Poll: Teachers who are back in the classroom are comfortable with it

Feb 17, 2021 | Yahoo News | teachers unions | National

Most teachers and school staff who are back in the classroom feel comfortable with the return to in-person classes, according to recent polling from the American Federation of Teachers.

Analysis: Survey Finds More Than Half of Parents Say Their Kids Are Learning Remote

Feb 17, 2021 | The 74 | remote learning | National

It’s reasonable to think that students would be attending schools for in-person instruction where COVID-19 is not spreading rapidly. But a recent national survey of parents conducted by analysts at the Harvard-based journal Education Next finds the opposite: Students are more likely to attend schools where COVID is spreading most rapidly.

Driving Academic Improvement by Empowering Parents

Feb 17, 2021 | Education Week | parent power | Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan

Central to turning around public education in Detroit—a city that has suffered from crushing debt, contracting student enrollment, and cratering student achievement—is reengaging the parents who had been largely cut out of district decision-making.

Editorial: L.A. Unified is officially out of excuses for keeping elementary schools closed

Feb 17, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

Schools have been reopening across the country for months now, illustrating that students can return to classrooms with little risk if the proper precautions have been taken. This is especially true of elementary schools, as younger children have been far less likely to be sickened with COVID-19 or to infect others. Reopened schools have not caused infections to surge in outlying communities.

Editorial: Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement

Feb 17, 2021 | New York Post | teachers unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a perfect progressive — who just let loose on the Chicago Teachers Union over its resistance to reopening schools and other issues.

Oregon Is Vaccinating Teachers. It Might Not Be Enough to Reopen Schools.

Feb 17, 2021 | New York Times | state policy | States, West, Oregon

But today, roughly 80 percent of Oregon’s 560,000 public schoolchildren remain in fully remote instruction. And while some districts are slowly bringing children back, two of the largest, Portland and Beaverton, do not plan to reopen until at least April — and then only for younger students.

Thousands of Miami and Broward students have left the public schools amid the pandemic

Feb 17, 2021 | Miami Herald | enrollment | Towns, States, South, Florida

While Florida educators are concerned that many students, especially those who are still learning virtually amid the pandemic, are struggling and may be at risk of failing, tens of thousands of children statewide have left the state public school system altogether.

How DC-area Catholic schools are faring with in-person learning

Feb 17, 2021 | WTOP | catholic schools | States, South, District of Columbia

Catholic schools’ efforts to welcome students back to classrooms exemplify the challenges many D.C.-area districts have faced: balancing reopening schools with teacher and student safety.

Proposed bill: Give vouchers to students whose schools didn’t offer 100% in-person classes

Feb 17, 2021 | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | school choice | States, South, Georgia

Under the guise of helping kids, three bills seek to expand vouchers. While the bills hide behind the new favored euphemism “education scholarships,” each diverts tax dollars from public schools to private ones.

How some NC private schools have been keeping students safe in class for months

Feb 17, 2021 | WJZY | private schools | Towns, States, South, North Carolina

One private school in Huntersville has been back inside the classroom for almost six months working to keep students safe in the middle of a pandemic. Teachers at Christ The King Catholic High School spray down desks with sanitizer and students wipe down the desks at the end of every class.

Voucher-Style Proposal Raises School Choice Debate In Iowa

Feb 17, 2021 | Iowa Public Radio | school choice | States, Midwest, Iowa

A school choice bill passed by the Iowa Senate (SF 159) would create independent charter schools and expand open enrollment. It also creates voucher-style scholarships, worth around $5,200 a year, for families to spend on tuition at private schools like Joshua Christian Academy.

When failure means closing, NC’s charter schools face pressure to provide quality education

Feb 17, 2021 | WNCN | charter schools | States, South, North Carolina

Traditional public schools and charter schools in North Carolina are both judged on their performance by the state. Both receive funding from tax dollars, although low-performing charters face closure while struggling public schools remain open.

Lawmakers propose 6 weeks of summer school to help NC students make up for learning lost

Feb 17, 2021 | WRAL | accountability | States, South, North Carolina

State lawmakers have proposed a six-week summer school session to help students make up some of the ground lost in remote learning over the past year during the coronavirus pandemic.

Schools in most Colorado counties should shift to hybrid, remote learning under new CDC guidance

Feb 17, 2021 | The Gazette | remote learning | States, West, Colorado

Schools in most Colorado counties should generally reduce physical attendance through hybrid or remote learning under new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday.

Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly advance in state superintendent race

Feb 17, 2021 | The Capital Times | elections | States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly have advanced out of the seven-person primary race to become the next state superintendent of public instruction.

House of Delegates passes charter school expansion bill

Feb 17, 2021 | News and Sentinel | charter schools | States, South, West Virginia

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed two education bills Tuesday, with much debate over an effort to expand the state’s public charter school pilot program.

After nearly a year, families still face difficulties of remote learning

Feb 17, 2021 | The Daily Item | remote learning | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

She added that as the months stretch into a year and longer, she fears her children’s love of learning will slip further and further away and become replaced with frustration over a “new normal” that often fails to account for individualized needs of young learners.

Editorial: Struggling schools need more state aid, not less

Feb 17, 2021 | Telegraph Herald | school choice | States, Midwest, Iowa

But even though the pandemic adds a multiplier effect to an issue like the annual debate over supplemental state aid, that isn’t the most troubling legislative issue facing public schools. Of greater concern is Gov. Kim Reynolds’ “student first” scholarship fund, which proposes siphoning off public dollars for private school use in the name of school choice.

Pandemic-Inspired Bill Would Redirect Student Funds Toward School Of Choice

Feb 17, 2021 | The Southern Maryland Chronicle | school choice | States, South, Maryland

After Maryland Democrats successfully pushed through a multi-billion dollar education reform bill last week, one Republican lawmaker has proposed pandemic-related education legislation of her own.

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