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Your Daily News Clips for March, 29 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for March 29, 2021

Editorial: School Choice Scores for Public Schools

Mar 29, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | school choice | National

Teachers unions claim that school choice is a zero-sum game, but evidence is mounting to the contrary. The latest is a study that finds a positive correlation between the education options states offer and test results on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).

As Pandemic Upends Teaching, Fewer Students Want to Pursue It

Mar 29, 2021 | New York Times | general teacher issues | National

Disruptions to education during the pandemic are turning people away from a profession that was already struggling to attract new recruits.

Kids Are Dealing With Pandemic Learning Loss, Johns Hopkins Education Policy Director Says

Mar 29, 2021 | CBS Baltimore | accountability | National

More than a year into the pandemic, and the negative effect remote learning has had on students is becoming clear.

Opinion: The Big Lie About School Choice

Mar 29, 2021 | Real Clear Education | school choice | National

If school choice is a right-wing plot to destroy public education – and we’re hearing that a lot as lawmakers across America consider choice bills this spring – somebody forgot to tell the late Rosa Parks. In the 1990s, Parks tried to start a charter school.

In San Francisco, Turmoil Over Reopening Schools Turns a City Against Itself

Mar 29, 2021 | New York Times | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

The pandemic has brought grinding frustrations for parents, educators and students across the country. But perhaps no place has matched San Francisco in its level of infighting, public outrage and halting efforts to reopen schools.

LAUSD goes to great lengths to show schools are safe to reopen. But it’s a tough sell

Mar 29, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

While large numbers of exasperated parents are ready to return, the clear majority of parents so far are not sending their children back. Although data on why families are making particular choices is unavailable, The Times has interacted with dozens of parents. Their concerns fall mainly into three buckets: ongoing safety fears; dissatisfaction with what the district is offering — especially for middle and high schools — and logistical issues, including the disruption of now established routines so close to the end of the school year.

The long road back

Mar 29, 2021 | Star-Ledger | accountability | States, Northeast, New Jersey

One year after New Jersey ordered all schools to close, the state has yet to release comprehensive data revealing the depths of learning loss during the pandemic. But early returns from districts such as Highland Park — along with results from an optional state exam — show what almost everyone expected: More students are failing classes, falling behind academically or ghosting teachers altogether as the coronavirus disrupts a second school year.

DeKalb County parent expresses disappointment with in-person learning

Mar 29, 2021 | FOX 5 Atlanta | school districts | Towns, States, South, Georgia

She's said it's not at all what her seventh-grade son was expecting when the school district reopened a few weeks ago for students longing for face-to-face learning.

Latest charter school fights shaping up in Texas Legislature and Dallas

Mar 29, 2021 | The Dallas Morning News | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Texas

State Senate contemplates bills designed to curtail local actions against charters, while Dallas City Plan Commission rejects Uplift Education’s application for campus location in Far East Dallas.

Reopening schools became a rallying cry for parents. Now it is a campaign issue in suburban school

Mar 29, 2021 | Chicago Tribune | school boards | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

Pre-pandemic, suburban school board contests were often no-drama affairs, in some cases, failing to attract enough candidates to fill open seats. But this election arrives in the wake of a tumultuous 2020 campaign season that was punctuated by parents protesting for reopened schools, marathon school board meetings and even lawsuits, including one filed this month against school board members in Naperville- and Aurora-based Indian Prairie School District 204 by a group of parents who allege a coordinated “cover-up of COVID-19 planning.

Time is running out for Wolf to repopulate shorthanded charter school appeals board

Mar 29, 2021 | Capital-Star | charter schools | States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

A new charter school got the green light to open its doors in Harrisburg this September, thanks to a decision by a powerful state board whose members formerly worked alongside the school’s founder.

Editorial: One City Schools will help narrow Madison’s learning gap

Mar 29, 2021 | Wisconson State Journal | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Today, 67% of Black students are graduating in four years from the Madison district, according to the latest state data. That compares to 93% of white, 91% of Asian and 81% of Hispanic students. Yet the disparities along racial and economic lines remain large, and virtual learning during the pandemic will only exacerbate those gaps. That makes One City Schools, which will be free to attend, easy to root for.

Editorial: Lawmakers shrug off public schools in favor of private schools

Mar 29, 2021 | Tribune -Star | school choice | States, Midwest, Indiana

Attitudes toward the needs of Hoosier public schools are quite different among the leaders of the ruling party of the Indiana General Assembly. At a time when public schools desperately need financial and moral support, with a shortage of teachers being exacerbated by the hardships of the pandemic, Republican legislators are pushing forward with plans that brush aside those predicaments.

NWI schools take stance against expanding state voucher program

Mar 29, 2021 | Northwest Indiana Times | school choice | States, Midwest, Indiana

Public school districts across Northwest Indiana are uniting against legislation that seeks to expand Indiana’s school voucher program.

House Republicans advance big increase in private-school tax credit

Mar 29, 2021 | KTVH-TV | school choice | States, West, Montana

Republicans in the Montana House Friday advanced a bill that dramatically increases a state tax credit that finances scholarships for private schools – a credit that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year.

Sudden switch to remote learning has caused Maine students to fall behind in school

Mar 29, 2021 | Bangor Daily News | remote learning | States, Northeast, Maine

The sudden switch to remote learning a year ago and the continued absence of students from classrooms this school year mean that students in Maine and across the country have fallen behind where they would otherwise be academically.

Commentary: No degree? Checkered past? You can still teach in Florida - and hide your past

Mar 29, 2021 | Orlando Sentinel | school choice | States, South, Florida

Florida doesn’t require voucher schools to let parents or taxpayers know what kind of qualifications teachers have or even what the schools are teaching. That should change.

Some Las Vegas parents want more school options for their kids

Mar 29, 2021 | KTNV | school choice | Towns, States, West, Nevada

The Nevada School Choice Coalition, a project of the American Federation for Children, and several Hispanic mothers demanded more school options for their children in Nevada with a Zumba event at Sunset Park today.

Local superintendents angry about decision forcing sharing of school revenue

Mar 29, 2021 | The Lawton Constitution | charter schools | States, South, Oklahoma

A decision Thursday by the Oklahoma State Board of Education will allow charter schools in Oklahoma to share in state and local funding that now is given to public school districts, beginning with the school year that starts July 1.

JCTA plans caravan, rally against HB 563

Mar 29, 2021 | WHAS | school choice | Towns, States, South, Kentucky

The Jefferson County Teacher’s Association is planning a caravan to rally lawmakers not to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of the school choice bill.

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