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CER Daily Media Clips for December 6, 2021
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Dec 6, 2021 |The Standard News | innovation |
Towns, States, Midwest, Missouri
The Discovery Center of Springfield is waiting to hear if they are a finalist for the sustainable, transformational, outstanding and permissionless award, also known as the STOP Award. The award will give them $1 million in funding from Forbes and the Center for Education Reform. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Washington Post | school choice |
National
That’s the question before the Supreme Court in Carson v. Makin — a case with major implications for the historic principle of church-state separation. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Forbes | microschools |
National
Determined to provide her children with a learning environment that nurtures their talents and cultivates their individuality, this fall Gregory launched The Wilder School, a microschool that is part of the booming Acton Academy network. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |New York Post | charter schools |
States, Northeast, New York
Michael Bloomberg last week vowed to drop a cool $750 million to solidify and expand the charter-school sector across 20 metro areas — including New York City, whose vibrant charters may well prove the most important legacy of his mayoralty. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |New York Times | private schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Mayor Bill de Blasio set a vaccine mandate for religious and private schools. Jewish and Catholic leaders are frustrated, and some have predicted legal challenges. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Baltimore Sun | elections |
States, South, Maryland
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John King is wading into the hot-button issue of teaching the history of racism in schools with a new video ad campaign. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |WFYI | federal budget |
States, Midwest, Indiana
Indiana schools are slated to get a surge of nearly $3 billion in federal coronavirus relief over the next three years. The money is meant to help them safely operate and make up for the instruction students missed out on. But months after the stimulus began flowing, public information on how local districts are spending it is inconsistent and often hard to find.
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Dec 6, 2021 |Post and Courier | general teacher issues |
States, South, South Carolina
In addition to workload problems, teachers said that they feel like they’ve lost parents’ support. Tiffany Dorris, a former eighth grade English teacher at Dorchester School District Two, said that parents’ recent attitude toward teachers caused her to quit.
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Dec 6, 2021 |The Oregonian | teachers unions |
Towns, States, West, Oregon
Apparently, the union believes that the way out of the hole caused by canceling in-person instruction is… to cancel additional in-person instruction. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |New York Daily News | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
The United Federation of Teachers is escalating its campaign in support of a controversial bill to force the city Education Department to lower class sizes with a legislative deadline looming on Dec. 31. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |WHYY | school funding |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Stem testified during the second week of the long-awaited trial, which pits six school districts, several parents, and two statewide groups against state leaders. The plaintiffs say Pennsylvania is violating its own constitution by severely under-funding public education and failing to close spending gaps between poor and wealthy school districts. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |The Times-Picayune | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Louisiana
Due to declining enrollment and financial impacts from COVID-19, NOLA Public Schools district Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. has announced a proposal to “right-size” the district, a plan that could include charter school consolidations and even closures. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 | Los Angeles Times | charter schools |
Towns, States, West, California
When the Orange County Classical Academy came before the Orange Unified Board of Education in December 2019 seeking a charter to operate a K-5 school that would offer 360 students a classical education curriculum, it was a tough sell. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |WV Metro News | charter schools |
States, South, West Virginia
West Virginia government leaders contend a new path to approve charter schools does not circumvent the state Constitution.The legal question is whether allowing a new Professional Charter Schools Board to approve new schools violates a clause that says no new school district or organization may be created without a vote of people in existing districts. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Daily Pennsylvanian | charter schools |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Charter schools may not be the perfect solution to fixing America’s education system, but they do provide a band-aid over a wound which can, if done correctly, marginally tip the scales of wealth inequality in education. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Staten Island Advance | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
A new public charter school will open in Midland Beach next September, offering seats for kindergarten and first-grade students with a goal to eventually grow to serve students from kindergarten to eighth grade. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Idaho EdNews | charter schools |
States, West, Idaho
It’s been a rough few months for three Idaho public charter schools.Two are shutting down after state leaders say they over-collected millions of state tax dollars. The other faces closure after a company its board chair and head administrator co-own cashed in on at least $500,000 from the school. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Baltimore Sun | enrollment |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
The enrollment numbers for private schools and home schooling in Carroll County are growing after hundreds of students left the public schools last school year. Not only are families staying at private schools and at home, numbers show more students are choosing these options as public school enrollment remains hundreds less than the pre-pandemic school year. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |The Advocate | accountability |
States, South, Louisiana
Nearly three out of four public schools and districts showed drops in their school performance scores in the pandemic-plagued 2020-21 school year, according to results posted Friday. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 | Raleigh News & Observer | school choice |
States, South, North Carolina
The Republican-led General Assembly approved increases in vouchers for private school tuition even as legislative leaders oppose a court-ordered increase in public school funding. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Los Angeles Times | school districts |
Towns, States, West, California
The district is creating a learning option called Alpine Choice Academy, where unvaccinated students can learn together at an off-campus location, getting instruction from district teachers.
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Dec 6, 2021 |patch.com | teachers unions |
Towns, States, West, Colorado
The election was a sweep by candidates backed by the Denver teachers union and critical of Denver Public Schools' past reforms. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |Memphis Commercial Appeal | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Tennessee
A brand new teacher, Antonio Burt arrived from Alabama to Memphis for his first job. It was a new city, and he didn’t know anyone in town. He’d been assigned to Cypress Middle School in North Memphis, a school community he soon realized was burdened by a lack of resources, impacting the way his sixth-grade students showed up to learn. Read More...
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Dec 6, 2021 |WTOP | school choice |
Towns, States, South, District of Columbia
Kids who are homeless or at risk in D.C. will have a better chance for enrollment at the city’s most sought-after schools. Read More...
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