CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for September, 14 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for September 14, 2021

Think of the Children: Recall Gavin Newsom! (CER in the news)

Sep 14, 2021 | Newsmax | parent power | States, West, California

Indeed, on this vital matter, the Center for Education Reform’s Parent Power! Index gives California a big, fat F. Beyond embattled charter schools, CER declared: “There are no choice programs in this state.

School boundaries often reflect 1930s-era housing discrimination

Sep 14, 2021 | Axios | accountability | National

Today's school boundaries in many cities are still linked to a history of housing segregation that goes back to the 1930s, a new study has found.

Opinion: The Other Back to School Story

Sep 14, 2021 | RealClear Education | school choice | National

Back to school stories this year will focus, naturally, on the Covid-19 pandemic’s tollon students and families and on remedying these difficulties. But another story is being shortchanged: it’s about how parents sought new options for their children like homeschooling, small learning pods, and micro-schools, with civic entrepreneurs and their partners creating new organizations or expanding existing ones to meet this demand.

Ida deals new blow to Louisiana schools struggling to reopen

Sep 14, 2021 | Associated Press | other education issues | Towns, States, South, Louisiana

After a year and a half of pandemic disruptions that drove children from schools and pulled down test scores, at least 169,000 Louisiana children are out of class again, their studies derailed by the storm. The hurricane followed a rocky reopening in August that led to more COVID-19 infections and classroom closures, and now it will be weeks before some students go back again.

Alabama education chief wants $800 million more for teachers and students in 2023 budget

Sep 14, 2021 | AL.com | state budget | States, South, Alabama

Alabama education officials have big plans for the 2022-23 school year, judging by the more than $800 million increase they’ll request when the legislative session starts in January.

Editorial: The dubious campaign to crush Colorado kids

Sep 14, 2021 | Colorado Springs Gazette | elections | States, West, Colorado

You’d think LEAP’s huge dose of funding to bolster student achievement would make it clear that it’s a net gain, and a big one, for Colorado public education. Yet, the “no” campaign is attempting to argue that because some of LEAP’s funding will come from state trust lands, the proposal will take money “away from teacher salaries and classroom supplies.” That’s absurd.

College readiness scores decline across state, area

Sep 14, 2021 | Daily Advance | accountability | States, South, North Carolina

The percentage of students meeting the University of North Carolina system’s benchmark on the ACT college readiness exam for 2020-21 was at or below the state average at five area high schools.

How a Chicago charter school is trying to make sure the kindergarteners are OK

Sep 14, 2021 | Chalkbeat | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

It was little more than a week into kindergarten at LEARN Charter Schools’ Hunter Perkins campus in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood, and Principal Latrice Franklin could already say with certainty that her youngest students will need more — much more — than any kindergarteners in her decades-long career.

Independence Charter School completes $9 million capital expansion

Sep 14, 2021 | Philadelphia Tribune | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

A special ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday at the Independence Charter School, unveiling its $9 million capital expansion.

Get vaccinated or resign, Rocketship charter schools tell staff

Sep 14, 2021 | WUSA 9 | charter schools | States, South, District of Columbia

D.C.’s Rocketship public charter schools have announced that they will be requiring all staff to get a COVID-19 vaccine or face a forced resignation.

Column: Charter schools are good for our community

Sep 14, 2021 | Florida Times Union | charter schools | States, South, Florida

I understand her fears. Back in the late 1990s, when charter schools were new in Florida thanks to legislation signed into law by Gov. Lawton Chiles, I was also concerned. I didn’t understand them. But then I educated myself. I visited charter schools and saw the good they are doing.

How the pandemic accelerated integrating technology in Iowa schools

Sep 14, 2021 | The Gazette | technology | States, Midwest, Iowa

Before the pandemic, integrating technology into the classroom was mainly focused on middle and high school students, Castelluccio said. But she saw what it could offer elementary students, too.

Springfield Public Schools add permanent virtual school

Sep 14, 2021 | The Republican | online learning | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

By the start of the school year, it was at capacity with 500 students and about 60 teachers. The students are all from the Springfield Public School district and teachers are a mix of teachers that were previously in the district and new hires, the district told MassLive. It will also be treated like all other schools and will only allow transfers under specific circumstances, meaning students will not switch between in-person and virtual schooling.

CNY private schools will use some pandemic learning strategies during future school years

Sep 14, 2021 | CNY Central | private schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

There are things the schools learned throughout the pandemic that they are taking with them in the future. Technology is a big one.

Where are the students? Kids who live in Sioux Falls could be at Jefferson, or Tea, or Sioux Falls

Sep 14, 2021 | KELO | enrollment | Towns, States, West, Idaho

The Sioux Falls School District started the 2021-2022 school year with 29 more students in K-12 than last year.

Charlie Baker activates National Guard to aid school transportation amid bus driver shortages

Sep 14, 2021 | Boston Herald | transportation | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

Gov. Charlie Baker is calling in the troops to drive students to school in some Massachusetts cities and towns amid widespread bus driver shortages.

Some parents call CPS reopening ‘chaotic,’ demand a remote learning option for everyone

Sep 14, 2021 | Chicago Tribune | parent power | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

Flanagan — who is the mother of two Chicago Public Schools students — was one of more than two dozen protesters calling attention to the district’s “chaotic” fall reopening. Those in attendance Monday demanded more COVID-19 testing in schools, faster contact tracing when there is a positive case, quicker disclosure of cases and expanded access to remote, synchronous learning for students who don’t feel comfortable with the safety protocols in place.

Florida bill would make state education commissioner an elected post again

Sep 14, 2021 | The Center Square | state policy | States, South, Florida

Florida’s education system is embroiled in partisan rancor with lawsuits and the state’s on-again, off-again policy against face-mask mandates – it’s on again via a Friday order by the First District Court of Appeal – creating confusion and political angst over pandemic protocols.

Opinion: Public schools now costlier than college

Sep 14, 2021 | Capitol Times | school funding | States, West, Arizona

Arizona public schools just hit a major milestone — they’re officially more expensive than the full freight tuition cost of sending a child to college at a four-year university here in the Grand Canyon State.

ENC parents upset with quarantine policies in schools

Sep 14, 2021 | WCTI | accountability | Towns, States, South, North Carolina

Parents in Eastern North Carolina are frustrated with quarantined learning policies, saying their children are falling behind in school.

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