CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for October, 11 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for October 11, 2021

Jeanne Allen: New Trends Emerge In U.S. Schooling Amidst Pandemic’s Second School Year

Oct 11, 2021 |Forbes | innovation | National

New opportunities have challenged prior conceptions of what education can and should be for students. The impact on traditional education is severe and much overdue.

Microschools Aim To Personalize Learning And Disrupt The Status Quo (CER in the news)

Oct 11, 2021 |Forbes | microschools | National

Imagine a learning environment where students' needs are individually met; where personalized instruction is delivered because class sizes are manageable; where children feel valued, safe, supported and challenged. While in today’s world this may seem like an unachievable utopia, Janelle Wood of the Phoenix-based Black Mothers Forum would argue she has done just that.

Why white students are far more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities

Oct 11, 2021 |NBC News | higher education | National

The problem is pervasive: Nationally, white students at public colleges are 2½ times more likely to graduate than Black students and 60 percent more likely to graduate than Latino students.

CRT advocate unwittingly makes the case for school choice

Oct 11, 2021 |Washington Examiner | school choice | National

It’s unusual that a stalwart liberal who opposes an idea will make the case for it, but we observed this, thanks to Twitter, last week with Hannah-Jones and school choice. Liberals rarely seem to know what conservatives think about hot-button issues. This was no different.

Dropping ‘F’ grades for kids is a new ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’

Oct 11, 2021 |FOX News | accountability | National

Sunrise Park Middle School is not alone in abandoning failing grades. This everyone-gets-a-trophy approach to education is also found in high-school math curriculum and the phase-out of college entrance exams—all in the name of “equity.”

Opinion: An Unexpected Reason to Support Charter Schools

Oct 11, 2021 |Bloomberg | charter schools | National

New research shows that girls who attend such institutions are more likely to vote, as are their parents.

Judge’s ruling strikes blow to Kentucky’s new school choice law

Oct 11, 2021 |Louisville Courier Journal | school choice | States, South, Kentucky

Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd's decision delivers a crippling blow to the fledgling education opportunity account program, which narrowly became law earlier this year.

Column: De Blasio’s final ‘gift’ to New York City is ruining its schools

Oct 11, 2021 |New York Post | elected officials | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

New York has endured nearly eight years under its worst mayor ever, but Bill de Blasio aims to do even more damage on his way out the door. His plan to end all Gifted and Talented programs in the public schools represents another assault on merit and would further dumb down a system already drowning in mediocrity and failure.

Opinion: School choice is not the problem in Portland

Oct 11, 2021 |Portland Press Herald | school choice | Towns, States, Northeast, Maine

Educators should find out why families are choosing one high school over the other, not take away their ability to choose.

Column: N.C. needs more Opportunity Scholarships

Oct 11, 2021 |News & Record | school choice | States, South, North Carolina

America prides itself on being the land of opportunity and equality — but our education systems fail to realize that promise. By placing children in schools based on where they live rather than their unique needs and gifts, we so often keep them in the cycle of poverty and squander their potential.

City orders educators to find the thousands of students ‘missing’ from schools

Oct 11, 2021 |New York Post | accountability | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

City educators are scrambling to find what some officials fear are 150,000 or more kids who have not yet set foot in school — and others who don’t show up on a given day.

Tennessee leaders to review education funding formula

Oct 11, 2021 |Johnson City Press | school funding | States, South, Tennessee

Gov. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn on Friday announced plans to review how the state funds its multibillion dollar K-12 education system.

New Jersey teacher says her stomach was churning following union demand to log students’ vaccine

Oct 11, 2021 |Fox News | teachers unions | States, Northeast, New Jersey

Jennifer Mess, a New Jersey public school teacher, said Sunday on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ that her stomach was “churning” after watching a teachers union training video enticing her and her colleagues to log the vaccination status of students and parents into a progressive app.

$6 million Fort Smith charter school expansion opens door for freshmen

Oct 11, 2021 |Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Arkansas

The school opened Aug. 22, 2016. The school is centered on a “personalized approach to learning via student-designed internships, personalized learning plans, and an adviser for each student,” according to its website.

Meet the 4 who will likely get to decide whether charter schools open in WV

Oct 11, 2021 |West Virginia Gazette | charter schools | States, South, West Virginia

Four people get to decide which charter schools can open in West Virginia. The quartet is also tasked with helping to hold these schools accountable.Nobody voted for them. The governor appointed them. State senators will decide whether they remain on the state’s new Professional Charter School Board.

NY state approves nursing charter HS amid pandemic, shuts out NYC

Oct 11, 2021 |New York Post | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

New York City is a mecca for the health-care profession — yet the state’s first specialized high school aimed at training future nurses will be hours away thanks to Albany pols.

Superintendents: Charter school funding law ‘seriously flawed’

Oct 11, 2021 |Sun Gazette | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

Although they stressed they were not seeking to end cyber charter schools, three Central Pennsylvania district superintendents, advocated, with a sense of urgency, a reform in the system to eliminate inequities.

Columbus City Council asked to approve 24-acre-plus annexation for KIPP campus expansion

Oct 11, 2021 |Columbus Dispatch | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Ohio

The Columbus City Council on Monday will consider a request from fast-growing charter school KIPP Columbus to annex into the city more than 24 acres in Mifflin Township west of its existing campus on Agler Road in Linden.

Learning Community Charter School to Celebrate Indigenous People in the United States

Oct 11, 2021 |TAP into | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey

Student’s at Jersey City’s Learning Community Charter School (LCCS) will be using Columbus Day to celebrate and learn about the culture and history of indigenous people in the United States.

An unexpected blessing for the Archdiocese of Chicago: More students

Oct 11, 2021 |Chicago Business | catholic schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

Amid a slew of financial setbacks, including a bond downgrade to junk status, parochial schools are bringing in more students and tuition dollars.

Philly principals have a new four-year contract with raises and bonuses

Oct 11, 2021 |Philadelphia Inquirer | teachers unions | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

If members of the Commonwealth Association of School Administrators, Teamsters Local 502 approve the deal with the Philadelphia School District, they will get salary increases of 11% over four years, and will pay less for their health insurance, Robin Cooper, CASA president, said Friday.

There’s another crisis emerging in Chicago-area schools: A critical shortage of workers

Oct 11, 2021 |Chicago Tribune | general teacher issues | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

A critical shortage of essential school employees in Illinois and across the U.S. this fall — including a scarcity of substitute teachers, school nurses, bus drivers and food service workers — has hit a tipping point this month, nearly forcing officials at one of the state’s largest school districts to cancel classes recently.

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