CER Daily Media Clips for October 12, 2021   Forbes And The Center For Education Reform Announce $1 Million STOP Award At Forbes Under 30 Summit Oct 12, 2021 |Forbes | innovation | National At the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit, Forbes announced from the stage the STOP Award: a new $1 million prize open to education innovators, providers and entrepreneurs who continued to support underserved families during COVID-19 and who seek to expand their work in the coming year. Read More...     Across America, students are back in school. It’s working — but it’s weird. Oct 12, 2021 |Washington Post | other education issues | National More than a month into the 2020-2021 school year — despite a surge in coronavirus cases and bitter political fights over vaccine and mask mandates — most American schoolchildren are back in the classroom. And while the political battles may continue, it looks like the students are there to stay. Read More...     Editorial: Stop denying hope to NYC kids, and lift the evil charter-school cap Oct 12, 2021 |New York Post | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York The SUNY Charter School Committee just approved five new charters, including the innovative Nurses Middle College Charter School in Albany — but none in New York City, thanks to the cap on new charters here. Read More...     This gubernatorial candidate’s education plan involves changing the Michigan constitution Oct 12, 2021 |Mlive.com | fund families | States, Midwest, Michigan Education is the top issue in Dixon’s gubernatorial campaign, and a pillar of her plan is establishing an Education Savings Account that allows a student’s per-pupil funding to be used on public, private, charter, virtual or homeschooling options. Read More...     Editorial: Virginia Dad Takes On the School Board Oct 12, 2021 |Wall Street Journal | parent power | Towns, States, South, Virginia Mr. Jackson sees the school board protests as fallout from the Covid-19 lockdowns. “Because kids were home and learning online, parents got a look at what their kids were being taught in the classroom, and they didn’t like it,” he says. “Now they’re speaking up. Read More...     Ensuring Vermont’s students have equitable access to education Oct 12, 2021 |NBC 5 | school funding | States, Northeast, Vermont But a panel established by the Vermont legislature is now considering significant reform in how the state funds public education. More and more school districts are voicing their belief that it's about time. Read More...     Families of at-risk children struggle to balance safety and education this fall Oct 12, 2021 |Boston Globe | online learning | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts Weeks into the new school year, an unknown number of families across the city and state continue to struggle with a keenly painful dilemma: how to balance their children’s health and their education. Some, like Ramon and Van Delft, faced delays and obstacles in tracking down online options for vulnerable students, or never learned about those options.Read More...     Florida is short more than 5,000 teachers, education group says. Oct 12, 2021 |CNN | general teacher issues | States, South, Florida Florida's teacher shortage has worsened since the start of the school year, with vacancies for teachers surging to more than 5,000, according to updated data from the Florida Education Association. Read More...     Facing major campus disruption and firings, LAUSD extends staff COVID-vaccine deadline Oct 12, 2021 |Los Angeles Times | general teacher issues | Towns, States, West, California The Los Angeles school district — confronted with widespread campus disruption and the firing of potentially thousands of unvaccinated teachers and other staff — has extended the looming deadline for all workers to be fully immunized for COVID-19. Read More...     FL allows 16-year-olds to withdraw from school with parent permission but most other states don&#821 Oct 12, 2021 |Flordia Pheonix | state policy | States, South, Florida In fact, 24 states and Washington, D.C., require students to attend school until the age of 18. And a handful more set that age to at least 17, according to data from the Education Commission of the States, a Colorado-based organization that tracks education policies throughout the nation. Read More...     Pennsylvania education officials claim that cyber schools impair performance and increase costs Oct 12, 2021 |Pennsylvania News Today | charter schools | States, Northeast, Pennsylvania According to PSBA, Pa. The school district plans to spend more than $ 23 billion on taxpayer dollars on mandatory payments to cybercharters and other real schools, and these costs are increasing significantly each year. But one director said most of the money wasn’t from the state. Read More...     Pioneer Charter School of Science in Everett/Saugus providing additional supports to students Oct 12, 2021 |Wicked Local | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts In order to ease this transition, the Pioneer Charter School, a K-12 system with campuses in Everett and Saugus, has started a series of community-building events and exercises to help students get reacquainted and develop new relationships with each other and with teachers and staff. Read More...     California and LAUSD shortchange students at Catholic schools Oct 12, 2021 |Orange County Register | catholic schools | States, West, California The federal government has allocated nearly $200 billion in relief funds to K-12 education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill in Congress could eventually send another $700 billion in education dollars to states. Read More...

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