CER Daily Media Clips

CER Daily Media Clips for May 25, 2021

States and cities across the U.S. debate the future of online learning.

May 25, 2021 | New York Times | online learning | National

As the coronavirus pandemic ebbs in the United States and vaccines become available for teenagers, school systems are facing the difficult choice of whether to continue offering a remote learning option in the fall.

New York City, Los Angeles to send students back to school

May 25, 2021 | Reuters | school districts | National

New York City and Los Angeles, the two largest U.S. public school districts, on Monday announced plans to fully reopen schools, part of a parent-led nationwide trend amid a sustained decline in COVID-19 infections and rise in vaccinations.

Oh, What A Year For School Choice

May 25, 2021 | Forbes | school choice | National

It has been hard to keep up with the number of school choice programs state legislatures have created so far in 2021. As sessions across the country wrap up, it is worth pausing to underscore just how massive the wins for the educational choice movement have been this year.

Editorial: Randi Weingarten isn’t fooling parents and other commentary

May 25, 2021 | New York Post | teachers unions | National

It’s been a rough 15 months for everyone. If teachers’ unions don’t want to earn even more contempt from the furious public, they need to quit the special pleading and focus (for once) on the children’s needs. Demanding pity after their disgraceful performance of the last year is only digging an even deeper hole.

Mountain House Academy to offer nontraditional, Christian education

May 25, 2021 | Summit Daily | private schools | Towns, States, West, Colorado

Class sizes will also intentionally be kept small in an attempt to individualize learning for the students, Bull said. For its first year, Mountain House Academy plans to have two pods, one for junior kindergarten through second grade and another for third grade through fifth grade. Each pod will accept 10 students.

Legislation directly funding charter schools headed to Gov. Kevin Stitt

May 25, 2021 | Tulsa World | charter schools | States, South, Oklahoma

The measure also seemed to defuse a legal blowup between the state board of education and individual districts over the board’s decision last month to give charter schools access to property tax-fed building funds in apparent contradiction to state law.

The virtual impact: How the pandemic influenced student enrollment

May 25, 2021 | WGLR | enrollment | Towns, States, Midwest, Wisconsin

The pandemic shook things up for all of us: how we work, play and learn. When many schools switched to virtual learning, many families and their students switched schools. Those who didn’t often had to learn a whole new way of schooling.

Commentary: When all public schools thrive, our communities will, too

May 25, 2021 | Missouri Independent | charter schools | States, Midwest, Missouri

Before adjourning for the year, Missouri lawmakers missed an important opportunity to right a wrong that has significant consequences on thousands of public school students.

Camden schools will be open for the summer for all grades

May 25, 2021 | Philadelphia Inquirer | school districts | Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey

The Camden public school system plans to open summer school full-time for every student in the South Jersey district, Superintendent Katrina McCombs announced Monday.

State school board rescinds controversial charter school settlement

May 25, 2021 | The Oklahoman | charter schools | States, South, Oklahoma

A polarizing lawsuit settlement by Oklahoma's top school board is no more, almost two months to the day that the board shocked the state by granting local tax revenue to charter schools with the agreement.

Mayoral hopeful Kathryn Garcia backs lifting city charter school cap

May 25, 2021 | New York Post | elections | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

“I do support raising the charter cap because I want every kid to have the opportunity,” Garcia told a virtual candidate forum for charter school parents and supporters on Monday night.

Utah charter schools at a crossroads with first enrollment decrease in 10 years

May 25, 2021 | KUTV | charter schools | States, West, Utah

The January meeting of the Utah State Charter School Board was unusual. The oversight authority that grants Utah charter schools the right to open denied the applications of three potential schools in one meeting.

Opinion: How NYC’s Catholic schools kept their doors open against all pandemic odds

May 25, 2021 | New York Post | catholic schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

But Catholic schools have stood by families through troubles past. Generations of families have relied on the consistency of Catholic schools to help students thrive in the face of the challenges from the world around them.

Parents react with relief and outrage after NYC ditches remote instruction next fall

May 25, 2021 | Chalkbeat | remote learning | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The news came as a shock to many families, as more than 60% of them — or roughly 600,000 students — have opted for fully remote learning this year and the mayor suggested in March that the city would likely have a virtual option.

N.Y.C. Will Eliminate Remote Learning for Next School Year

May 25, 2021 | New York Times | remote learning | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

New York City will no longer have a remote schooling option come fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday, a major step toward fully reopening the nation’s largest school system and a crucial marker in the city’s economic recovery after more than a year of disruptions caused by the pandemic.

Parents, educators look back at what good might come out of a year of virtual learning

May 25, 2021 | WCPO | remote learning | Towns, States, Midwest, Ohio

“;With the flexibility, I was able to offer multiple modalities for the kids to use,” Middendorf said. “So on my modules, the kids would have ways to learn visually; there was auditory ways; we would do online labs where they could do hands-on things. So I was able to address all kinds of learners.

Atlanta elementary teachers to get $3,000 stipend for longer work days

May 25, 2021 | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | teacher pay | Towns, States, South, Georgia

The district plans to extend the elementary school day by half an hour for the next three years, starting in August. The goal is to provide more time for academic intervention to help students who have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Commentary: How will California schools spend gusher of money?

May 25, 2021 | Cal Matters | school funding | States, West, California

During Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 90-minute, superlative-saturated monologue on the virtues of his revised 2021-22 budget this month, he boasted of an historic high in public school spending.

Enrollment option program helps local school districts grow

May 25, 2021 | KFXL | school choice | Towns, States, Midwest, Nebraska

Parents have the option to choose what school they want to send their kids to thanks to the enrollment option program that was implemented into Nebraska’s legislature back in the ‘90’s.

Kansas education funding hike, school choice eligibility expansion signed into law

May 25, 2021 | Kansas Reflector | school choice | States, Midwest, Kansas

Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday commended a new bipartisan education law increasing education spending that fully funds Kansas education for the third year in a row while also expanding eligibility for private school scholarships.

Private school advocate calls for Gov. Pritzker to keep tax breaks for scholarship donors

May 25, 2021 | WTVO | school choice | States, Midwest, Illinois

One of the nation’s leading advocates for school choice visits Illinois. She’s calling on state leaders to keep a scholarship program alive.

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