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CER Daily Media Clips for April 30, 2021
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President Joe Biden’s first formal address to Congress lauded the role of public education in America’s primacy in the 20th century, saying 12 years of taxpayer-funded public education “made us the best-educated, best-prepared nation in the world ... Universal public schools and college aid opened wide the doors of opportunity.
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Apr 30, 2021 | Education Week | federal budget |
National
District leaders, state lawmakers, and student advocates have begun agitating for their urgently needed federal stimulus relief as some states have been especially slow in getting that money into the hands of school districts. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Newsweek | higher education |
National
For one, Biden wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. While tuition prices at four-year colleges are indeed absurdly high (you can in large part thank federal meddling for that), community college remains quite affordable. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | WTOP | school districts |
States, South, District of Columbia
The national teacher shortage existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and local school systems will soon see the effects of how a year of distance learning, severe public health restrictions and several starts and stops influence a person’s desire to become a teacher. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Concord Monitor | school funding |
States, Northeast, New Hampshire
New Hampshire ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to low student-to-teacher ratio, a new national education report shows, but is dead last among all states when it comes to state funding for public education. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | WIVB | charter schools |
States, Northeast, New York
‘Tis the season for those ever-important New York State assessment tests, and the annual assessments are a matter of survival for local charter schools. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | San Diego Community Newspaper | teachers unions |
Towns, States, West, California
This week, a supermajority of teachers and certificated staff at San Diego’s High Tech High filed a petition with the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) for union recognition. HTH, with 16 schools spread over four campuses and an enrollment of more than 6,000 students in grades K-12, is the largest operator of charter schools in San Diego County. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Spectrum News | learning pods |
Towns, States, West, California
When schools shut down, some parents formed PODS where students could navigate virtual learning together. Now that the Los Angeles Unified School District has switched over to hybrid learning, the PODS have changed. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Baltimore Sun | online learning |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
The families of hundreds of Harford County Public Schools students have applied to have their children take part in the school system’s virtual learning program, slated to be available for kindergarten through 12th grade in the next school year.
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Apr 30, 2021 | Staten Island Advance | catholic schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Staten Island’s Catholic schools will fully reopen for in-person instruction, five days a week, for all students next September, bringing an end to all remote and blended learning, the Archdiocese of New York has announced. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Detroit Free Press | online learning |
States, Midwest, Michigan
For educators, teaching virtually and in-person at the same time can be frustrating, contributing to the burnout exasperating an ongoing teacher shortage. And parents with students still learning remotely say the quality of the virtual experience declined with the start of hybrid school, raising questions over equity, as students of color are more likely to choose remote school, according to the MSU data. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | The State | accountability |
States, South, South Carolina
Carolina House on Thursday passed a bill that would permit the state superintendent to remove local school boards in chronically low-performing districts and take control of those districts indefinitely in an effort to turn them around. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | WCYB 5 | online learning |
States, South, Tennessee
Local school systems are making plans for the fall after a Tennessee Department of Education decision that means schools will not be able to offer both in-person and virtual learning. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Propel’s professional non-supervisory full- and part-time staff, including teachers, counselors, therapists and others, agreed to unionize by a vote of 236-82. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | KOAA | online learning |
Towns, States, West, Colorado
With the school year coming to an end, it's now time for parents to start making decisions for next year. Open enrollment has just started for most districts, but some are already seeing an increase in online learning options. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | AZFamily.com | charter schools |
States, West, Arizona
Brittney Smith is a Mesa mom of four kids ranging from ages 4 to 11. Frustrated with the quality of online learning during the pandemic, she enrolled her kids into a charter school with in-person learning. And they'll be going to summer school there starting in June. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | The Daily Gazette | homeschooling |
States, Northeast, New York
The newly-released data from the state Education Department offers the first comprehensive view at just how many families pulled out of the public school system during a school year marred by pandemic restrictions and widespread remote instruction. Read More...
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Apr 30, 2021 | Carolina Journal | school choice |
States, South, North Carolina
Legislation to expand school choice in North Carolina is on the move in both chambers of the General Assembly, after the N.C. Senate Education Committee OK’ed a measure to increase the dollar value of Opportunity Scholarships and open them to more families.
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