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CER Daily Media Clips for April 1, 2021
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Apr 1, 2021 | Education Week | federal budget |
National
President Joe Biden proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday that would provide $100 billion for new school construction and upgrades to existing buildings, meeting a long-time push by some education advocacy groups. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | teachers unions |
National
With this assertion that unions created the American middle class, the political and social goals of the Biden administration come into focus. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Forbes | online learning |
National
The problem in this case is that the extended trial of online learning has been a dud, a disappointment, a disaster. Turns out, most people don’t like online learning. Based on overwhelming public response, remote, online learning is a lousy product. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Washington Examiner | school choice |
National
The Wall Street Journal declared 2011 the “Year of School Choice,” highlighting the 13 states that enacted new school choice legislation and the 28 states that attempted to tackle the issue. Forward-looking governors such as Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Mitch Daniels in Indiana championed legislation to expand educational opportunity for hundreds of thousands of children across the county. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | The 74 | teachers unions |
National
Experts have spent decades studying the question of how teacher’s unions influence both the resources provided to schools and the learning that occurs inside them. The events of the last decade — one that began with a clampdown on collective bargaining in Wisconsin, crested in a historic wave of labor militancy, and culminated in the debate over COVID reopenings — have only magnified focus on the issue.
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In a free society, parents should be able to choose in-person, remote, or hybrid schooling for their children. And teachers should be able to choose to work at a school that is in-person, remote, or hybrid. If we funded students instead of school systems, both parents and teachers could make the choices that work for them. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | New York Times | school districts |
Towns, States, West, California
The pandemic has brought grinding frustrations for parents, educators and students across the United States. But perhaps no place has matched San Francisco in its level of infighting, public outrage and halting efforts to reopen schools. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Boston Globe | accountability |
States, Northeast, Massachusetts
Decades of research show the costs of segregation are enormous. Academic performance suffers. Adult earnings, too. And students of all races miss out on vital opportunities to prepare for life in an increasingly multicultural society. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Los Angeles Daily News | parent power |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
A group of parents frustrated by efforts made to date to reopen classrooms in the nation’s second-largest K-12 system is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District and local teachers union. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | WCTV | teacher pay |
States, South, Florida
Wednesday, Governor Ron DeSantis proposed a plan to give the state’s public school teachers and principals a $1,000 bonus, saying he wants to reward them for their hard work during the pandemic. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | WIVB | remote learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Dozens of parents in Clarence are sharing that same message. Many believe their children’s mental health and developmental skills are suffering by not being in school full time. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | WPR | elections |
States, Midwest, Wisconsin
Kerr has worked in schools ranging from private to charter to traditional public schools, and with her most recent role being Brown Deer's superintendent for 13 years. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | KLTV | school districts |
Towns, States, South, Texas
Longview Independent School District is transitioning away from remote learning and requesting all students return to on-campus education for the final six weeks period. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | New York Post | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
The research and active decision-making that goes into choosing a school that’s right for your child should be encouraged rather than thwarted. In my experience, when parents get to choose, it’s a win-win.
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Apr 1, 2021 | Buffalo News | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Buffalo Public Schools has long complained about growing competition from city charter schools, and on Wednesday they had the chance to get rid of two of them. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | WJAR | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Rhode Island
Rhode Island's House Finance Committee continued testimony Wednesday for a proposed three-year moratorium on the creation of expansion of charter schools.
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Apr 1, 2021 | State Impact Oklahoma | charter schools |
States, South, Oklahoma
The resolution, introduced by recent Gov. Kevin Stitt appointee Trent Smith, will open up funding streams for charter schools that had previously been off limits. It comes as a vehicle to settle a lawsuit filed in 2017 by the Oklahoma Public Charter School Association.
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Apr 1, 2021 | WABE | school choice |
States, South, Georgia
Senate Bill 47, which would expand Georgia’s special needs voucher program, is on its way to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature. The bill was heavily debated before state House members gave it final approval this week.
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Apr 1, 2021 | WLOS | learning pods |
Towns, States, South, North Carolina
As some parents in Asheville and Buncombe County are choosing to keep their children (about 200) in fully remote instruction, Asheville City Schools students from Kindergarten through high school are able to take advantage of a remote instruction pod program.
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Apr 1, 2021 | KRVG | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Texas
A new pilot program at Harmony School of Innovation is launching at the start of Autism Awareness Month aimed at teaching job skills to students.
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Apr 1, 2021 | The Valley Breeze | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Rhode Island
At the end of the day, the majority of our General Assembly believe that school districts, regardless of performance, are entitled to other people’s children because of the dollars that attach to those children. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Cranston Herald | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Rhode Island
In the rapidly accelerating debate over charter school expansion in Rhode Island, it has become apparent that we can offer no easy answer to the simple question: Are more charter schools a good thing for students in the state? However, this does not mean that a proposed three-year moratorium on charter school expansion – recently overwhelmingly passed in the Rhode Island Senate – is a good idea.
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Apr 1, 2021 | Idaho EdNews | school choice |
States, West, Idaho
It was ostensibly the realization that Idaho’s families needed help and support for their children’s learning that Governor Little created the popular and effective Strong Families, Strong Students (SFSS) program. This child-centered program allowed eligible families to receive microgrants or reimbursements of $1,500 per student, with a maximum of $3,500 per family. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Iowa Starting Line | charter schools |
States, Midwest, Iowa
Iowa House Democrats put up a long but unsuccessful fight last week over Republican efforts to establish public funding for privately-run charter schools—a years-long attempt that Democrats have been working hard this session to stop. Read More...
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Apr 1, 2021 | Kansas Reflector | school choice |
States, Midwest, Kansas
House Bill 2119, the Student Empowerment Act, would take the per-pupil amount of money normally given to public schools and place it into education savings accounts for students to use toward private school tuition. The bill would also limit funding for remote learning options by providing a finance formula based on virtual school rather than in-person instruction.
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Apr 1, 2021 | Kokomo Tribune | teacher pay |
States, Midwest, Indiana
The tone of the 2021 budget session of the Indiana General Assembly has been quite different from the last budget session in 2019 when K-12 public education leaders stood with legislative leaders to announce a state budget that devoted $763 million in new funding for K-12 public education. Read More...
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