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CER Daily Media Clips for September 20, 2021
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Sep 20, 2021 |NPR | other education issues |
National
Cardona is not the first education secretary to hit the road welcoming students back to school, but the stakes feel higher now. Children across the country are returning to classrooms, in some cases for the first time in more than a year, and with the delta variant of COVID-19 still ravaging many communities and no vaccine yet for kids younger than 12, many families feel as uncomfortable as ever with the idea of sending their kids to school. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Politico | school boards |
National
As angry parents converged on school boards in recent months to decry anti-racist curricula, headlines blared about the culture wars’ return to schools. In fact, these conflicts never left. They instead changed their focus, alternating between religion and history (and lately epidemiology). Our most contentious battles used to concern God and his role in the universe. Now they’re about the nation, and what we want it to be. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |National Review | school choice |
National
With school-choice bills on the table in over 30 states, greater educational freedom may soon be at hand. But that would not be the end of the story. School choice would certainly rattle the current progressive monopoly over public education, but the state still controls the supply of teachers and administrators, and the problem remains that there simply aren’t enough private and parochial options to meet new demand. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WFMZ | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf initiated the regulatory process on Friday for some of his proposed charter school reforms that the Legislature has, so far, been unwilling to adopt. He said most of the six new rules align with requirements school districts must also meet, from financial and auditing standards to posting nondiscrimination enrollment policies online. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Los Vegas Review Journal | school choice |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
What happened in Baltimore recently is an extreme example of why blindly throwing money into a broken education system won’t increase student achievement. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WTOP | charter schools |
States, South, District of Columbia
Eleven charter schools in D.C. plan to offer admissions preference to students who are homeless, receive assistance, in foster care or who are a year older for their grade. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |The Denver Post | charter schools |
Towns, States, West, Colorado
Take the hard road. That’s what a group of Ft. Collins parents did in the early 1990s when they sought to open an elementary school with a rigorous, content-rich curriculum. After years of wrestling with the Poudre School District, they succeeded in opening Liberty Common School in fall 1997 and adding a high school a little more than a decade later. Their hard has work paid off ever since. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Columbia Spectator | other education issues |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Though all schools are cleaned and equipped with air purifiers in every room, not all have the same parent base as does M.S. 54. There, parents have donated extra surface wipes and paper towels to the school’s existing collection of PPE.
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Sep 20, 2021 |NY Daily News | other education issues |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Students across the city restructured their lives during the pandemic, finding the newfound flexibility of remote learning let them take on the long hours at paying jobs — or move. And while some students are having little trouble readjusting to in-person schooling, others are finding the switch back more complicated.
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Sep 20, 2021 |Boston Herald | accountability |
States, Northeast, Massachusetts
The annual release of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test scores has garnered little attention in recent years — not so in 2021. When the results are made public this week, we’ll have our first look at how our students were affected by the continual interruptions in learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Orlando Sentinel | state policy |
States, South, Florida
Like a lot of things, Florida’s end-of-year testing for public school students was a good idea that spun out of control. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WLTX | online learning |
States, South, South Carolina
The Cyber Academy of South Carolina (CASC), for example, said it expected to enroll roughly 2,000 students last year. It instead received 5,200 - a school record. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WHYY | school districts |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Board of Education will vote at its meeting Thursday on a resolution that would make every other Friday a half day of school for students. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Star Tribune | higher education |
States, Midwest, Minnesota
A new health sciences degree program at the University of Minnesota Rochester will combine online and in-person learning to help students complete their studies in just over two years instead of four. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Washington Post | school districts |
Towns, States, South, District of Columbia
After the first weeks of school, some D.C. parents remain frustrated by how campuses are handling coronavirus quarantines and data shows the District has failed so far to reach its goals for testing students for the virus. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WICS | online learning |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Even as school districts require masks and testing for in-person learning, some parents just don't feel comfortable sending their kids to school every day. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Washington Post | accountability |
States, South, District of Columbia
In recent months, many educators have sounded a call: We can’t go back to what was normal for students and schools before the coronavirus pandemic turned education upside down. Though the pandemic has been destructive, now is the time to think about a new way to “do” school. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Sun Sentinel | enrollment |
Towns, States, South, Florida
About 12,000 students have left the Broward County school system in the past 18 months, moving to other districts, private schools, home-schooling — or just missing without explanation. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WPLG-TV | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Florida
The first tuition-free charter school for students diagnosed with autism in South Florida Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Boston Herald | teachers unions |
States, Northeast, Massachusetts
The state’s largest teachers union is blasting the MCAS test, saying it “has allowed white supremacy to flourish in public schools,” and has endorsed legislation designed to rethink the standardized test.
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Sep 20, 2021 |Chalkbeat | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
New York City’s teachers union called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to ramp up the frequency of random coronavirus testing in schools for students under 12, just one day after the city’s first school closure of the year due to widespread virus transmission among staff. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |WBZ Boston | online learning |
States, Northeast, Massachusetts
A group of parents from around Massachusetts is calling for remote learning options for some students. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |Oregon Business | online learning |
States, West, Oregon
Enrollment at public virtual schools surged upward last year — and insiders say it’s likely to continue. Read More...
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Sep 20, 2021 |The Center Square | federal budget |
States, South, Florida
More than three months after missing the deadline, Florida still has not submitted a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) outlining how it will spend $2.3 billion in federal pandemic aid allocated to the state’s Department of Education (DOE) under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Read More...
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