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May 11, 2021 | Wall Street Journal | catholic schools |
National
Catholic schools across the country are struggling to keep the doors open, after a pandemic year that left many families unable to pay tuition and the church without extra funds to cover the difference. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Daily Signal | catholic schools |
National
Here is one demonstrable fact about the difference between Catholic and public schools: Students who study at Catholic schools do better in reading and math.
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May 11, 2021 | Washington Post | accountability |
National
U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country’s dropout rate during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | The 74 | charter schools |
National
The study uses enrollment and fiscal data reported by traditional school districts between 2000 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between the proportion of students attending charter schools not approved by the local school district and the finances of host school districts in twenty-one states, including the Golden State. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Education Week | other education issues |
National
For those who have long sought to give students more “voice and choice” inside the country’s K-12 classrooms, the devastating coronavirus pandemic appears to have had a silver lining. Read More...
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Republicans have questions after a report about the influence of teachers unions on the Education Department’s guidance for states and school districts to safely reopen. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | FOX News | teachers unions |
National
The nation's second-largest teachers union has been accused of dragging their feet when it comes to returning children to their classrooms full time following nationwide COVID-19 shutdowns. The agency was charged last week of holding too much influence over the White House and the CDC on the political hot button issue. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | KTVU | other education issues |
Towns, States, West, California
The majority of high school and middle students were largely left out of the district’s initial reopening plan, which allowed for its elementary and preschool students to gradually return to classrooms on a rolling basis last month. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Washington Post | elections |
States, South, Maryland
Maryland Democrats running for governor can spend the next 18 months discussing their plans to address injustices and closing the opportunity gap. But voters in the state should remember that when schools have unjustly remained closed, thus expanding the opportunity gap like never before, it was Democrats who were standing in the way of school doors. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | The News & Observer | fund families |
States, South, North Carolina
A preliminary House bill draft obtained by The News & Observer shows a plan to give North Carolina parents $1,000 to $3,000 to spend on future costs to help their school-age kids avoid learning loss as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | KCRG | teachers unions |
States, Midwest, Iowa
From improving building ventilation to avoiding layoffs to adding summer school classes, Iowa school districts have a wide variety of ways to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money that will be divided among them. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | The Center Square | teachers unions |
States, West, Oregon
A bill being considered in the Oregon Legislature this session, Senate Bill 580, would make class sizes a required component allowed in teacher union contract bargaining. The bill provides no increased state funding to schools. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | California Globe | teachers unions |
States, West, California
A group of parents have started a petition to rid California of the California Teachers Association (CTA), the largest statewide teachers labor union. Across the state, parents and students have held protests and rallies against teachers unions and public school districts for not reopening. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Wisconsin State Journal | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Wisconsin
Nearly 150 Madison teachers and supporters protested Monday outside the Doyle Administration Building after the School District sent out employee contracts without wage increases tied to experience and educational attainment — a change from what had been a decades-long practice. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Alexandria Magazine | enrollment |
Towns, States, South, Virginia
While students leave Alexandria City Public Schools every year for a variety of reasons, this is the first year in more than a decade that the total number of students enrolled in ACPS has actually declined. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | The Philadelphia Inquirer | other education issues |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia School Partnership on Tuesday will name Stacy Holland, a nonprofit leader with broad education experience in Philadelphia, as its new executive director.
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May 11, 2021 | The Daily Californian | parent power |
Towns, States, West, California
Berkeley parents are initiating legal action to fully reopen middle and high schools. A Berkeley Parents for Full Reopening press release claims that only elementary schools being allowed to return to in-person instruction creates an unequal situation for the middle and high school students. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Florida Poltiics | school choice |
States, South, Florida
Lawmakers on Monday formally sent a bill (HB 7045) to the Governor that would pave the way for the largest school choice expansion effort in Florida history. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Watertown Daily Times | school districts |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
In a letter Monday, 45 school district superintendents in the St. Lawrence-Lewis, Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton and Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES regions appealed to state legislators to advocate for additional guidance to allow all students to return to school in person each day beginning in the fall. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Chalkbeat | teacher pay |
Towns, States, Midwest, Indiana
With the end of the school year approaching, Indianapolis teacher Katy Aiello considered signing up to work summer school. She quickly decided: “Nope.” After a roller-coaster year of both remote and in-person learning, she’s planning a well-deserved break.
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May 11, 2021 | The Colorado Sun | charter schools |
States, West, Colorado
Public charter schools have been a lifeline for many students and families. We must continue to keep children at the forefront of education. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Associated Press | school choice |
States, Midwest, Wisconsin
Wisconsin families who want to send their children to a private school using a voucher paid for by taxpayers would increase to three times the federal poverty level under a Republican-backed bill the state Assembly is scheduled to pass on Tuesday. Read More...
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May 11, 2021 | Des Moines Register | state policy |
States, Midwest, Iowa
Republicans have pushed for the change as part of a package of “school choice” efforts this year. They said eliminating the plans will keep students from being trapped by their socioeconomic status in districts where they don't want to be. Read More...
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