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Apr 12, 2021 | Education Week | federal budget |
National
President Joe Biden is proposing major spending increases for the U.S. Department of Education in the next fiscal year—including major boosts for disadvantaged students, special education, and wraparound services at community schools—and said the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on students and educators has made additional funding more urgent.
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Apr 12, 2021 | New York Times | online learning |
National
Some families have come to prefer stand-alone virtual schools and districts are rushing to accommodate them — though questions about remote learning persist. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | school choice |
National
Katrina made education reform possible, not inevitable, in Louisiana. The country must seize this moment and build the education system that students need. School is the most significant investment of time that young people make. It’s also an investment of society’s resources. Parents must demand that education funding be portable, and school systems more flexible and accountable. Make schools compete for students. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Washington Post | online learning |
National
As children across the country return to classrooms this spring, greeted by principals and teachers with air hugs, fist-pumping dances and “Welcome Back” videos, many students have chosen to remain just where they’ve been all school year: sitting in front of their computers at home. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Real Clear Education | teachers unions |
National
It’s unreasonable to assume that all teachers agree with union efforts to keep schools closed, let alone the political agenda that the union is pushing. But the unions are doing their all to ensure lockstep loyalty. Teachers brave enough to advocate for a safe reopening are vilified. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Washington Post | civics education |
National
The Civics Secures Democracy Act sounds like what we need. It’s bipartisan. It would spend $1 billion annually for six years to reemphasize the teaching of history and government in elementary and secondary education. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | New York Times | other education issues |
National
But mothers and fathers of middle schoolers — the parenting cohort long known to researchers as the most angst-ridden and unhappy — are connecting now in a specific sort of common misery: the pressing fear that their children, at a vital inflection point in their academic and social lives, have tripped over some key developmental milestones and may never quite find their footing again.
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Apr 12, 2021 | USA Today | school choice |
National
If states can't control what's taught with taxpayer money, the upshot could be ending charter schools and public funds for private tuition altogether.
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Apr 12, 2021 | New York Post | teachers unions |
National
In New York City and nationally, school shutdowns without question do the most harm to minority, low-income and special-needs students. And it’s beyond outrageous that the teacher-union leaders who are behind the most egregious public-school closures pretend the opposite. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | accountability |
Towns, States, West, California
Americans are only beginning to understand the damage from keeping so many students out of the classroom for the past year. It’s the greatest outrage of the pandemic, and maybe the most destructive. A new report by the nonprofit Great Public Schools Now quantifies the harm so far to children in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Los Angeles Magazine | parent power |
Towns, States, West, California
L.A. public schools are set to start a staggered reopening on April 12, but parents’ displeasure with the details of the plan has spawned a pair of lawsuits and plenty of protests.
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Apr 12, 2021 | Chicago Tribune | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Chicago students and CTU members hang messages on the front window of CPS headquarters while protesting cops in schools during a march on June 24, 2020. They were asking for schools to invest in counselors not cops. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | amNY | blended learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
The families of at least 40,000 fully remote New York City public school students enrolled their children in blended learning during the hybrid model’s most recent opt-in window, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | New York Post | parent power |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Fed-up parents are to set to take legal action to immediately open New York City schools five days a week — with teachers in every classroom. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | accountability |
States, Midwest, Wisconsin
Most schools in Wisconsin were delivering at least some in-person instruction to students during the first half of the school year but students in the state's urban centers were most likely to be learning virtually, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review of initial state data shows.
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Apr 12, 2021 | Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Oklahoma
Washington County public school districts are joining a growing list of districts statewide considering legal action against the Oklahoma State Board of Education over its recent decision on charter school funding. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | News & Observer | charter schools |
States, South, North Carolina
Charter schools are one option in the growing “school choice” movement. Funded by taxpayer money, these schools are growing nationally, though some states have yet to pass related laws. Find out what sets them apart. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Erie Times-News | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Our charter school law is colossally out of date, and it’s hurting kids and hurting taxpayers, while letting private company middlemen siphon away money intended to teach students.
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Apr 12, 2021 | New York Post | charter schools |
States, Northeast, New York
They’re talking about the Legislature’s refusal to raise the cap on charter schools even a smidge, despite huge demand for charter seats among low-income families desperate for better educational choices. Why the refusal? Because teachers’ unions don’t want any more children escaping the regular public schools that they control (and mostly now keep closed, to boot).
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Apr 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | school choice |
States, South, Florida
Senate and House proposals to revamp Florida’s school-voucher programs are closer to aligning after the House Appropriations Committee approved the House version with changes Thursday. The bills (HB 7045 and SB 48) are ready to be considered by the full House and full Senate. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Evansville Courier & Press | school choice |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Dozens of teachers gathered along the Downtown Evansville Riverfront to protest pending legislation that they say would take desperately needed dollars from public schools and instead put them into private schools.
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Apr 12, 2021 | The Tennessean | state takeover |
States, South, Tennessee
A bill outlining how the state could take over a local school district falling short of its academic goals is dead after the Senate Education Committee officially closed for the year Wednesday night.
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Apr 12, 2021 | Las Vegas Review-Journal | class size |
States, West, Nevada
The state has been funding this initiative in the lower grades for more than 30 years, spending more than $3 billion. Continued poor test scores — and the supposed need for more money — provide ample evidence that the program hasn’t delivered. That hasn’t reduced its appeal. Teachers unions love it because it increases their membership rolls. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Grand Rapids Press | remote learning |
States, Midwest, Michigan
Thousands of Michigan students like those at Godfrey-Lee still continue to grapple with remote learning challenges due to unreliable internet connect, even a full year into COVID-19 pandemic learning. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Springfiled News-Leader | school choice |
States, Midwest, Missouri
For all of these reasons, and more, we have to provide Missouri children and their families with educational choice. Parents are in the best position to determine what makes sense for their children, and it’s our responsibility to make sure they have the tools to make the best decision.
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Apr 12, 2021 | Northern Kentucky Tribune | school choice |
States, South, Kentucky
If private or parochial schools dependent on parents choosing them for their children’s education don’t respond in a timely fashion or fail to satisfy expectations, students and dollars go elsewhere. That’s the ultimate form of accountability, which now should help schools in a struggling public system “step up their game. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Providence Journal | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Rhode Island
Governor McKee has argued that it was “a big lie” to think that charters hurt districts financially. We feel that Governor McKee has a blind spot when it comes to the fiscal realities of school choice. Read More...
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Apr 12, 2021 | Topeka Capital-Journal | school choice |
States, Midwest, Kansas
After a dramatic series of twists and turns, a major school choice expansion in Kansas was shot down Friday in the Kansas Senate, with legislators now forced to find a path forward on funding the state's public schools. Read More...
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