CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for December, 29 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for December 29, 2021

‘I Feel Half as Successful’: Teachers and Districts at War Over Hybrid Education

Dec 29, 2021 |Politico | online learning | National

Teachers want to ban teaching students in person and online at the same time. Some education leaders say it should be what the future looks like.

Schools Use Trial and Error for Choosing Edtech, But They Don’t Have to

Dec 29, 2021 |EdSurge | technology | National

As I have written previously, the lack of information-sharing between school districts is a textbook example of what economists call a “collective action problem.” It will never solve itself. Absent a major systematic change, our schools will continue to make huge numbers of well-intentioned mistakes that cause tens of millions of students to miss out on billions of hours of learning experiences.

Editorial: Randi Weingarten’s attempts to rewrite school-closings history won’t fly

Dec 29, 2021 |teachers unions | National

American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten has learned an important lesson from the pandemic: Parents really resent the fact that she and the union she heads pushed to keep schools closed for so long at the expense of kids. So what’s Weingarten doing? Denying she did any such thing. And she’s got her media lapdogs backing her. Don’t fall for any of it.

New York City Looks to Test More and Keep Classrooms Open

Dec 29, 2021 |New York Times | school districts | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The city said it would allow students who were exposed to Covid to remain in school if they test negative for the coronavirus and have no symptoms.

For Asian American students, new magnet school admissions plan creates roadblocks | Opinion

Dec 29, 2021 |Philadelphia Inquirer | other education issues | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

Our community enjoys no greater privilege than any working-class group in America, and we depend on public magnet schools for opportunity, writes Michael Zhang. This new process fails our children.

Cyber charter schools continue to open doors for families in Montgomery County

Dec 29, 2021 |Times Herald | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

As COVID variants remain in the news, more and more families are once again taking a serious look at virtual schooling options for their children. The difference this time around is that families have already had—starting in spring of 2020—the opportunity to assess first-hand what virtual learning would look like for their children.

Kettle Moraine School District will start a virtual charter school next year. Here’s how it will wor

Dec 29, 2021 |Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Kettle Moraine School District plans on adding a public virtual charter school, called KM Connect, as another education option for the district beginning in fall 2022.

Technology, tutors and T-shirts: How Idaho schools will spend a $440 million federal windfall

Dec 29, 2021 |IDEdnews.org | federal budget | States, West, Idaho

Three rounds of congressional coronavirus relief have injected some $680 million into K-12 coffers across the state in less than two years — good for about a third of Idaho’s annual public schools budget.

Student Council members at COJC collect socks for nursing home residents

Dec 29, 2021 |The Shawnee News-Star | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Oklahoma

Members of the Oklahoma Youth Academy Charter School (OYACS) Student Council on the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center (COJC) campus in Tecumseh recently concluded a sock drive to benefit residents of a local nursing home.

Opinion: How a Supreme Court ruling might upend Washington charter schools

Dec 29, 2021 |The Seattle Times | charter schools | States, West, Washington

A quirk of history and misaligned constitutional provisions soon could kill public charter schools in Washington state. A case before the U.S. Supreme Court would make that happen.

Education Freedom Accounts return to the N.H. State House spotlight in 2022

Dec 29, 2021 |Concord Monitor | school choice | States, Northeast, New Hampshire

Education Freedom Accounts give taxpayer dollars to low and moderate-income families to pay for private school or other non-public school expenses. About 1,600 students enrolled in the program this school year, 70 percent of whom had not been attending public school in the last two years.

Whitmer bucks teacher unions and signs bill allowing school staff to be substitutes

Dec 29, 2021 |Washington Examiner | teachers unions | States, Midwest, Michigan

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer bucked teachers unions earlier this month and signed into law an expansion of substitute teacher eligibility as schools across the state grapple with staffing shortages.

Austin ISD to stop virtual learning program

Dec 29, 2021 |KVUE-TV | online learning | Towns, States, South, Texas

Next week, about 3,000 Austin ISD students who were going to school online will head back to the classroom in the new year.

Online K-12 enrollment soars, raising funding, performance questions

Dec 29, 2021 |Wyoming News Exchange | online learning | States, West, Wyoming

The number of Wyoming students enrolled in virtual education programs quintupled last year, and it’s not yet clear how seamless that shift will be for the state’s K-12 learners or the institutions that serve them.

SC Department of Education looks to raise teacher, bus driver salaries amid shortage

Dec 29, 2021 |WIS-TV | teacher pay | States, South, South Carolina

As part of its budget request to lawmakers for the 2022-23 fiscal year, the South Carolina Department of Education is looking to increase salaries for two critical jobs: teachers and bus drivers.

California Department of Education Fails Black Children

Dec 29, 2021 |LA Progressive | accountability | States, West, California

In a state known for its progressivism, you may find it shocking that Black Californians live under a mandate that nothing in particular can be done for Black children in our public schools as a matter of law. This is true despite the fact that according to the California Department of Education, 67 percent of Black students don’t read or write at grade level. In math, nearly 80 percent of Black children do not perform at grade level and 86 percent are below grade level in science. That means that Black Californians are not being prepared to participate in the STEM economy for which our state has been the epicenter of innovation for the world.

State lawmakers to take aim at racial history in public schools, partisan school boards

Dec 29, 2021 |Georgia Recorder | elected officials | States, South, Georgia

Teachers and administrators from across the state agree critical race theory is not discussed in Georgia grade school classrooms, but it likely will be a hot topic under the Gold Dome in January as lawmakers return for an election-year legislative session.

Editorial: Injunction against charters just, but won’t hold

Dec 29, 2021 |Gazette-Mail | charter schools | States, South, West Virginia

Last week, Kanawha Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey granted an injunction against the opening of Yve charter schools in West Virginia, because, it would appear, the state constitution doesn’t allow them.

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