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CER Daily Media Clips for February 26, 2021
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Feb 26, 2021 | Washington Post | enrollment |
National
School districts across the country that closed buildings in mid-March in response to the coronavirus pandemic handled the transition to remote learning with varying levels of success. During the disruption, schools lost track of students. Many students who were present in the classroom in early March could not be found online. And others who showed up in the spring haven’t been seen since. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | FOX News | teacher unions |
National
President Biden's plan to reopen schools within 100 days has faced opposition from teachers unions due to coronavirus safety concerns, leaving other teachers frustrated. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Wicked Local | parent power |
Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts
Reduce social distancing rules and put all students back in the classroom was the message delivered to School Committee members Thursday night Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | WUNC | school choice |
States, South, North Carolina
More parents have chosen to homeschool their children during the pandemic, and it's contributed to a decline in enrollment at public schools. Now, schools and families are trying to figure out how long this trend will last. Liz Schlemmer reports for WUNC. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Washington Post | elected officials |
States, Midwest, Iowa
Her name is Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), and she just signed a bill into law that requires every public and accredited private school in her state to offer in-person learning, five days a week. Not a “majority” of K-8 schools in 100 days, as President Biden has pledged. All K-12 schools, immediately — no ifs, ands or buts.
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Feb 26, 2021 | CNN | school districts |
Towns, States, Midwest, Ohio
The push to reopen the Southwest Licking schools began several months ago, when a summertime survey of parents found 70% of them wanted their children back at school. Schools superintendent Kasey Perkins said once they had that mandate, they had to figure out how to make it work, and they partnered with local health officials to make a plan. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | CT Mirror | school funding |
Towns, States, Northeast, Connecticut
School districts across the state, especially those in Connecticut’s cities, expect they will need huge increases in staffing to get students caught up after the COVID pandemic broadly interrupted learning. Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed sending schools more than $440 million in federal aid — but, at the same time, pausing promised increases in state aid. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Center Square | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Indiana
A new report finds that Indianapolis charter schools are doing more with less, and giving the state “more bang for its buck. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Rockaway Wave | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
More than 250 Success Academy parents mobilized for a week-long series of virtual meetings with elected officials to advocate for parent choice and urge them to eliminate the arbitrary charter “cap” — a statutory limit on the number of charter schools that can open in New York City. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
The Chartiers Valley School Board members Tuesday unanimously voted to deny an application from Dogwood Charter School to locate its school in the district. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | West Virginia Gazette | charter schools |
States, South, West Virginia
The bill that would allow charter schools to spread faster in West Virginia and fully legalize online charters is up for amendments Friday in the state Senate.
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Feb 26, 2021 | KY3 News | charter schools |
States, Midwest, Missouri
An education package up for debate in the Missouri Senate is seeing so many changes. Senate Bill 55 includes a handful of changes, including possible charter schools here in Springfield. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | WRAL | charter schools |
States, South, North Carolina
Forty-five public charter schools in North Carolina obtained a total of $28 million in forgivable federal loans last year in the early weeks of the pandemic that traditional public schools couldn't access. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | marketplace.org | learning pods |
Towns, States, South, Virginia
Last summer there was a lot of uncertainty about schools opening — and about how learning would happen. Allison Fried in Fairfax, Virginia, certainly felt that. So, as her oldest daughter was about to start kindergarten, she decided to start a learning pod in the basement of the house where she lives with her husband and three children. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | New York Post | remote learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
The reviews are in: remote learning is “boring.” And it’s also “weird,” students told Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza during their visit to a Bronx middle school on Thursday.
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Feb 26, 2021 | Philadelphia Inquirer | school districts |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Hours after saying he remained “optimistic” that a partial reopening could begin next week as had been planned, Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. told the school board Thursday evening that the district, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, and city officials are still in negotiations with a third-party mediator on when and how to reopen. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Williston Observer | remote learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, Vermont
Parents speaking at the Champlain Valley School Board’s Feb. 16 meeting said the length of time and reduced quality of remote learning is having a cumulative effect.
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Feb 26, 2021 | Kalamazoo Gazette | remote learning |
Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan
Coats was among dozens of parents on Thursday who shared both concern and support for the decision by Kalamazoo Public Schools administrators to continue online-only learning for the remainder of the school year. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | WSPA | school choice |
States, South, South Carolina
More than 60 members of the South Carolina House of Representatives have signed on to a bill that would create Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs). Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Houston Chronicle | state takeover |
Towns, States, South, Texas
Lawyers representing Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, pictured in 2019, filed an appeal Wednesday asking the Texas Supreme Court to overturn a temporary injunction halting the state's plans to replace Houston ISD school board members.
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Feb 26, 2021 | The Virginian Pilot | school districts |
Towns, States, South, Virginia
Portsmouth elementary and middle school students could return to the classroom in April, but high school students would finish the year virtually under a new plan presented Thursday. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | school choice |
States, Midwest, Missouri
Proponents of a measure allowing students in the St. Louis area to draw scholarship funds in order to attend the school of their choice won a narrow victory in the Missouri House on Thursday, sending the proposal to the Senate for debate. Read More...
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Feb 26, 2021 | Idaho Statesman | school choice |
States, West, Idaho
First, I trust parents. Second, I support our public schools. I believe that we should empower parents to make the educational decisions for their children. Trusting parents and supporting public schools are not mutually exclusive. If you were to read the editorial, you’d be led to believe that giving parents choice in education was antithetical to supporting public schools. That false choice is a lie.
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