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Your Daily News Clips for April, 27 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for April 27, 2021

U.S. Department of Education Launches National Summer Learning & Enrichment Collaborative

Apr 27, 2021 | US Department of Education | federal policy | National

The Collaborative aims to both take a national approach to understanding best practice and rapidly setting up fun, innovative, and engaging summer opportunities for students, while also facilitating regional and local level partnerships to ensure speedy and robust implementation of state- and district-level plans.

Opinion: Principals Know Best What Their Schools Need.

Apr 27, 2021 | The 74 | federal budget | National

How these funds are distributed will shape the educational prospects of millions of students, affecting the country for decades to come. As they make rescue plan funding decisions, states and districts should meaningfully engage and empower school principals throughout all phases of implementation. Principals, as leaders of their school buildings and staff, have unequaled insights into their individual schools’ needs and know which resources are needed most urgently.

Opinion: Summer School Is More Important Than Ever. But Teachers Are Fried and Need a Break

Apr 27, 2021 | Education Week | general teacher issues | National

Districts are bolstering their summer learning offerings, and the federal government has given more than a billion dollars to help them do so. But there’s one big problem: Teachers are burned out and exhausted from a year of pandemic teaching. And many are saying thanks but no thanks to the offer of teaching summer school.

Again, Ben Franklin High School rated tops in state, U. S. News says

Apr 27, 2021 | The Advocate | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Louisiana

Ben Franklin High School is the 64th best high school in the nation, according to a report issued Tuesday by U. S. News & World Report. The school is also the top rated in Louisiana. Lusher Charter School is listed as No. 156 by the digital firm.

Column: Opportunity Scholarships: Dem cites pricey Raleigh school but neglects complexities

Apr 27, 2021 | Carolina Journal | school choice | States, South, North Carolina

With a handful of exceptions, support for Opportunity Scholarships has fallen along party lines since the program was created, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has been one of the most vocal opponents, trying to zero out the program in his budget proposals year after year.

Less than half of expected L.A pupils returned in first week; then numbers improved

Apr 27, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | other education issues | Towns, States, West, California

Fewer than half of elementary school students who were expected to return for in-person classes showed up during the first week that campuses reopened in L.A. Unified, but numbers improved significantly the second week, L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner announced Monday.

Parents may continue with online learning indefinitely

Apr 27, 2021 | WAFF | online learning | States, South, Alabama

The school year is coming to an end and it’s now time for parents to start making decisions for next year. Families across the country have been forced to adapt to the ways of online learning due to the pandemic, but some parents and students have found they prefer virtual learning.

Fremont school district faces potential lawsuit

Apr 27, 2021 | KRON 4 | parent power | Towns, States, West, California

Fremont parents are anxious to move forward in a lawsuit against the school district after it did not meet their demands to reopen classrooms by Monday.

To help NYC students catch up, de Blasio’s budget would earmark $500M for testing and tutoring

Apr 27, 2021 | Chalkbeat | accountability | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to spend half a billion dollars to help students catch up academically after a year of pandemic-related disruptions.

After-school program at local charter school a popular activity for students

Apr 27, 2021 | East Idaho News | charter schools | Towns, States, West, Idaho

White Pine Charter School has a very successful after-school program with more than 200 students enrolled and participating in different clubs every afternoon. In addition, there are sports activities that keep the gym busy.

Column: It’s the teachers union -not charter schools -lobbying for an elected school board

Apr 27, 2021 | Chicago Sun Times | teachers unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

But charter advocates will be prepared to offer candidates for an elected board, standing with Black and Latinx families and educators who choose charter public schools.

‘A step backwards’: DMPS students protest education-related bills at Iowa Capitol

Apr 27, 2021 | Des Moines Register | charter schools | States, Midwest, Iowa

One measure, House File 813, would establish a new method of creating charter schools in Iowa. It would allow a founding group to apply directly to the state Department of Education to form a charter, rather than going through a local school board. The bill also would retain the current method of applying through a local school board.

Charter school question again before court

Apr 27, 2021 | New Jersey Spotlight | charter schools | States, Northeast, New Jersey

Every few years, New Jersey’s courts have taken up the ever-controversial topic of charter schools, largely deferring to the executive branch as to how it meets its statutory and constitutional obligations in overseeing the privately run schools.

Behind the Fight to Reopen San Marcos and Oceanside Schools

Apr 27, 2021 | Voice of San Diego | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

San Marcos Unified and Oceanside Unified are two of the only large school districts in North County where students are not back in the classroom full time, and there’s no final decision about what will happen for the rest of the school year.

These are the top high schools in the Raleigh and Durham-Chapel Hill metro areas in 2021

Apr 27, 2021 | Herald Sun | charter schools | Towns, States, South, North Carolina

Raleigh Charter High, Wake STEM Early College, Woods Charter School and East Chapel Hill High all ranked in the top 500 in the U.S. News 2021 Best High Schools List released early Tuesday.

Florida Senate votes for $200 million expansion of school vouchers, sending bill to governor

Apr 27, 2021 | Orlando Sentinel | school choice | States, South, Florida

A bill touted as the nation’s largest expansion of school voucher programs is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis after the Florida Senate voted Monday to make more students eligible for state scholarships to pay for private schools or other private educational services.

Tennessee schools won’t offer hybrid virtual and in-person learning starting this fall

Apr 27, 2021 | WBIR | state policy | States, South, Tennessee

The Tennessee Department of Education decided hybrid learning is going away in Tennessee. The state says starting this fall, Tennessee schools can't offer both in-person and virtual instruction.

Study: Charter schools do not ‘drain’ funding from California’s traditional public

Apr 27, 2021 | LA School Report | charter schools | States, West, California

Last fall, Governor Gavin Newsom approved a new state law, Assembly Bill No. 1505, which gave local districts more control over the opening of new charter schools and the renewal of existing schools’ charters. In addition the new law revises the process for appealing rejected charter school applications.

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