CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for November, 16 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for November 16, 2021

Are New Federal Funds Contributing to K-12 Administrative Bloat?

Nov 16, 2021 |RealClear Education | federal budget | National

The latest version of President Biden’s Build Back Better budget resolution excludes some of the priorities Democratic lawmakers backed in a previous $3.5 trillion budget plan, but it still contains some $400 billion in federal funding for universal pre-K and childcare. If passed, these federal dollars would be added to the $200 billion in stimulus funds that the federal government has already poured into public education during the pandemic.

Momentum Behind Learning Pods Drives $1.5M Fundraising Round For Startup KaiPod

Nov 16, 2021 |Forbes | learning pods | National

The rise of pandemic learning pods is showing signs that it may have staying power. That momentum is fueling investor interest in learning pod solutions, including KaiPod Learning, which has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from a combination of investors, including Y Combinator, GSV Ventures, EO Ventures, and Verissimo Ventures, among other strategic investors that have founded other education companies.

Opinion: Progressives can no longer cede school boards to the GOP

Nov 16, 2021 |Washington Post | school boards | National

As today’s school board meetings devolve into screaming matchesand fistfights over mask requirements, vaccine mandates and anti-racist curriculums, conservatives are once again growing their influence within one of the most underrated power structures in American politics.

How Louisiana public schools are dealing with learning disrupted by pandemic surges and storms

Nov 16, 2021 |PBS | accountability | States, South, Louisiana

For April Vincent and her four young kids, trying to keep up with schooling has been an educational crisis, one calamity after another that has cost her family dearly.

Alternative high school program at Riverhead could begin with as many as 70 students

Nov 16, 2021 |Riverhead News-Review | innovation | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

An alternative high school that would operate in the afternoon hours is in the works at Riverhead High School, Superintendent Dr. Augustine Tornatore said at the Nov. 9 Board of Education meeting.

School chief cashes out leave, becomes California’s top paid

Nov 16, 2021 |Associated Press | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

The head of a Southern California school district is the state’s highest paid K-12 administrator for the third year in a row after taking advantage of various perks, including one that allows him to cash out sick time that ballooned to 85 days this year.

Preschool, classical charter school planned for South Toledo neighborhood

Nov 16, 2021 |Toledo Blade | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Ohio

The K-12 school will be similar to the Northwest Ohio Classical Academy in that it will be partnered with Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative that has a heavy emphasis on the sciences and liberal arts, as well as intellectual, moral, and civic virtues.

Editorial: SC charter schools are complicated. Parents need to read the instructions.

Nov 16, 2021 |Post & Courier | charter schools | States, South, South Carolina

Less obvious to too many parents is where that flexibility comes from and how broad it is: In addition to being able to ignore all those state regulations that parents want them to ignore, charter schools also may ignore the local school board, answering instead to their own individual school boards whose members can have very different priorities and values than those who are elected to oversee the regular public schools.

Petition for charter school focused on equity, inclusion denied by Petaluma City Schools board

Nov 16, 2021 |Petaluma360 | charter schools | Towns, States, West, California

A proposed 600-student charter school centered on equity and inclusion was rejected Monday after Petaluma City Schools leaders concluded school organizers didn’t understand the charter process, couldn’t resolve key questions about the proposal and were “demonstrably unlikely” to be successful.

Hundreds of Iowa City students learning in ICCSD Online, district’s first permanent online school

Nov 16, 2021 |The Gazette | online learning | Towns, States, Midwest, Iowa

In his virtual classroom, Iowa City math teacher Bennett Brown says he has more time to challenge students who are excelling in the class and work individually with those struggling with the basic content.

Some Kalamazoo students to remain virtual due to lack of in-person learning space

Nov 16, 2021 |News Channel 3 | school districts | Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan

For the upcoming second semester, Kalamazoo Public Schools received more than 100 requests for students to return to in-person learning.

Kindergarten enrollments rebound in NC, but school alternatives boom

Nov 16, 2021 |Fayetteville Observer | enrollment | States, South, North Carolina

While most students still attend a district school, more families are embracing non-traditional schooling options: charters, private, and, especially of late, homeschools.

Kentucky AG asks state Supreme Court to review school-choice case

Nov 16, 2021 |The Center Square | school choice | States, South, Kentucky

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and a nonprofit law firm that backs school-choice measures have asked the state’s Supreme Court to take up a case where a Franklin County judge ruled a new state law creating educational opportunity accounts for families as unconstitutional.

What does the NC budget mean for education? Voucher money, pandemic help and more

Nov 16, 2021 |News Observer | state budget | States, South, North Carolina

More taxpayer money would go to help North Carolina families pay for private school, and public schools would be shielded from losing state money for having fewer students this year, under a new state budget proposal.

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