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CER Daily Media Clips for May 10, 2021
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May 10, 2021 | CNBC | private schools |
National
Until the pandemic, many families in the U.S. ruled out a private-school education because of the cost. Yet as the coronavirus crisis raged on, parents increasingly sought out schools that were fully in-person rather than remote — and, for many, that meant switching to an independent institution, regardless the price tag. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | New York Times | other education issues |
National
Only a small slice of American schools remain fully closed: 12 percent of elementary and middle schools, according to a federal survey, as well as a minority of high schools. But the percentage of students learning fully remotely is much greater: more than a third of fourth and eighth graders, and an even larger group of high school students. A majority of Black, Hispanic and Asian-American students remain out of school. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | FOX News | teachers unions |
National
“Teachers unions have long pretended that their interests are perfectly aligned with those of the children,” Riley said. “I think their behavior during this pandemic, their resistance to go back to work, and the harm we know it has caused children…shows that their interests are not aligned with those of the children and families.” Read More...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t been following the science on school reopenings. Instead, it’s been acting as the stenographer for a powerful national teachers unions. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | CT Post | charter schools |
National
Congress will soon start to vote on how much federal funding, if any, will be available next year to start and replicate innovative public schools through the Charter Schools Program grant. In Connecticut, there are 21 charters serving about 11,000 children, and there are thousands more students who would attend a charter school if one were available to them. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | school districts |
Towns, States, West, California
Except for her voice, the room was silent. Only three students were physically in the class — and they weren’t paying attention to her as they attended other online classes while wearing noise-canceling headphones. Returning to school in Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest school district, means sitting in one classroom all day, two or three days a week, with little intermingling or movement. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | The Post and Courier | federal budget |
States, South, South Carolina
The $1.9 billion in emergency cash the Congress appropriated this spring for S.C. schools amounts to about 10% of the total local, state and federal funding they already spend — or just 3% if you average it out over the 40 months they have to spend it. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Star Advertiser | federal budget |
States, West, Hawaii
At the tail end of the 2021 legislative session, with no public input, lawmakers decided to use nearly $30 million in coronavirus relief money to give every full- and part-time public school teacher a $2,200 bonus.
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May 10, 2021 | Times Picayune | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Louisiana
Educators with Bricolage Academy, the popular elementary school on Esplanade Avenue, will vote on whether or not to have a union in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board later this month. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | WJRT | teachers unions |
States, Midwest, Michigan
It’s no surprise that Michigan is experiencing an educator shortage in every school district. The Michigan Education Association is pushing for a solution by empowering the community to compel lawmakers to act. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Capital Gazette | online learning |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
Monarch Academy Annapolis will continue its eSchool in the fall, an 80% virtual program with a 20% in-person option that is open to all Anne Arundel County Public Schools students in prekindergarten through fifth grade. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | The Oregonian | teachers unions |
States, West, Oregon
After a year in which students suffered profound academic, mental, social and emotional upheaval, Oregon legislators have a moral obligation to put students’ needs first in making any school-related decision. Unfortunately, many are already failing that test with Senate Bill 580, which handily passed the Oregon Senate last month with nearly all Democrats and one Republican voting for it. The bill, a teachers union priority, would require school districts to negotiate class size and case workload with their teachers unions. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | WSOC-TV | school funding |
Towns, States, South, North Carolina
On Monday, Charlotte leaders plan to rally with a powerful message for Charlotte-Mecklenburg School: Stop failing our kids.The county wants to withhold $56 million from CMS’s budget because it said too many children of color are struggling in school. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | The Record | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey
But as progressives now move to knock down racial barriers, the first case to reach the state Supreme Court is aimed not at the white schools in the suburbs, but at the charter schools in Newark whose student bodies are nearly all Black. If the challenge succeeds, it could force up to 2,400 Black students to return to traditional district schools in the years ahead, despite the preference of these families, and the abundant evidence that their children are thriving. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Colorado Springs Gazette | charter schools |
States, West, Colorado
A bill introduced in the Colorado legislature by State Rep. and Denver school board member Jennifer Bacon represents a blatant attempt to strip the State Board of Education of its authority to prevent local school boards hostile to charter schools — like Denver’s — from choking the life out of the charter sector. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Marin Independent Journal | charter schools |
Towns, States, West, California
The state assigned the oversight role to the Marin County Office of Education after the Ross Valley School District denied the charter school’s five-year renewal petition. It is the first such arrangement in the state after new charter school laws became effective this year.
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May 10, 2021 | WTIF | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
The Chester Upland School District is on the cusp of being dismantled and replaced with charter schools — which would make it the first district in Pennsylvania to be almost completely under the control of charters. To a crowd of displeased parents and teachers, three charter school networks presented their proposals at a school board meeting Thursday night. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | WENY | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Ithaca’s New Roots Charter School was one of three New York schools that were chosen by the U.S. Department of Education to be recognized as a Green Ribbon School. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Tahlequah Daily Press | charter schools |
States, South, Oklahoma
The grand jury’s investigation of Epic began in October and isn’t completed yet. But on Thursday it issued a 25-page interim report to inform the public, parents, and policymakers detailing “concerning trends emerging in the investigation.” The grand jury wanted to make the information public before Epic receives its funding allocation for the 2021-22 school year.
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May 10, 2021 | WSAZ 3 | fund families |
States, Midwest, Ohio
The bill would allow all students, regardless of district, to opt-out of the state’s public school system and take the tax dollars associated with them along. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | WSMV | personalized learning |
Towns, States, South, Tennessee
Parents said those plans will help children who may have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | South Bend Tribune | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Indiana
Just shy of 7,400 students within South Bend district lines enrolled in charters and nonpublic schools this year, according to state data, and a new school opening in a building Tarkington’s size could mean a loss of over 300 more students and $2 million in per pupil funding. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Cherry Hill Courier-Post | remote learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey
Roskiewich's young welders – particularly his freshman and sophomores – are struggling the most. He said underclassmen in automotive and carpentry have similar experiences. “You just get the hang of something, then we don't see them for five days,” he explained. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Las Vegas Review-Journal | online learning |
States, West, Nevada
While distance learning began as an emergency response to school building closures at the onset of the pandemic, signs now indicate it may become a fixture on Nevada’s learning landscape. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Anchorage Daily News | homeschooling |
States, West, Alaska
The Bradleys are among the many Alaska families choosing to home-school their kids during the pandemic. From April 2020 to September 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that nationwide, households that opted to home-school their children doubled. In Alaska, numbers shot up even more, from 9.6% to 27.5%. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Topeka Capital-Journal | school choice |
States, Midwest, Kansas
While Indiana is expanding school choice eligibility from 37,000 to 48,000 students, Kansas is resisting even slight changes to existing school choice programs. A Wall Street Journal editorial congratulated Indiana “for its leadership in establishing one of America’s most ambitious school voucher programs. Read More...
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May 10, 2021 | Post & Courier | school choice |
States, South, South Carolina
High-income families have opportunities that low-income families do not; South Carolina’s education system will not be equitable until disadvantaged children have access to a full range of educational providers, public and independent, like children in wealthy families do. Every step toward this goal evens the playing field; this is why, as a public school teacher, I support H.3976. Read More...
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