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CER Daily Media Clips for January 6, 2022
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Jan 6, 2022 |Forbes | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
The Chicago Teachers Union’s abandonment of their duties today is nothing short of a strike. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |US News & World Report | other education issues |
National
Educators, principals and administrators are facing significant student absences, staff shortages and labor disputes along with rapidly rising coronavirus cases. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Fox News | accountability |
National
A 22-year-old education trailblazer who wants to create a charter school in Atlanta, Georgia, said the public school system is graduating kids who don't have basic literary skills Wednesday on “Fox News Primetime. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Washington Times | teachers unions |
National
Schools in Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, are closed for the week. Pittsburgh shuttered a dozen individual schools because of staffing shortages. The head of New York City’s teachers union, Michael Mulgrew, wrote an open letter Sunday urging new Mayor Eric Adams to return the nation’s largest school district to remote learning. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Washington Post | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
The Chicago Teachers Union’s vote to return to remote learning over what it says are unsafe conditions due to covid-19, forcing the city’s schools to close on Wednesday, not only defies reason; it’s also an assault on the well-being of children. City, state and national Democrats should act to bring vaccinated teachers back to work and prevent future unjustified work stoppages. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Chicago Tribune | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Classes are canceled in Chicago Public Schools on Thursday after district officials and the teachers union again failed to come to terms on COVID-19 safety measures. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |New York Post | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Angered teachers union factions are ramping up pressure on city officials to adopt remote learning amid an ongoing “nightmare” of COVID-19 infections in city schools. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
The political scandal of the year so far is unfolding in plain sight in Chicago, where the teachers union has effectively shut down the public schools. Will this finally cause President Biden to speak up for children? Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is showing the way.
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Jan 6, 2022 |Washington Post | other education issues |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
More than 125 public schools in Montgomery County have hit “red” levels of coronavirus infection and could be switched to virtual learning — a jump in cases that has alarmed parents and teachers across Maryland’s largest school system.
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Jan 6, 2022 |Cal Matters | enrollment |
States, West, California
Without help from the state, California’s school districts could face a sudden drop in funding after two years of not being penalized for declining enrollment. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |The Detroit News | remote learning |
Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan
Parents of Ann Arbor Public Schools' students with disabilities asked a federal judge Wednesday to stop Michigan schools from shifting to remote learning amid another COVID-19 surge. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Chatham News Record | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, North Carolina
School of the Arts for Boys Academy (SABA) — a new public charter school set to open next fall — will add 6th grade students to its 3rd through 5th grade school population to accommodate boys provisionally accepted in 2021 when the school still planned to open in fall 2021. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |The Boston Globe | remote learning |
States, Northeast, Massachusetts
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu suggested Wednesday that she’s hoping for more flexibility from Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration when it comes to allowing temporary remote learning at schools dealing with staffing shortages due to the omicron variant of COVID-19.
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Jan 6, 2022 |WRAL | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, North Carolina
State officials are mulling the fate of a Raleigh charter school, after nearly two years of concerns over whether the school is properly providing special education services. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |WCBD | accountability |
Towns, States, South, South Carolina
The concerns being raised include claims that CCF has little to no prior experience with school operations. Another is why CCSD would choose to utilize an outside party instead of funneling the money directly into the schools in need. A third concern stated by parents is why the district isn’t able to provide an equal education to all students. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |Colorado Politics | school choice |
States, West, Colorado
The Colorado Supreme Court will not hear an appeal that questioned whether judges may decide where children are to attend school when their divorced parents cannot agree. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |WCBE | school choice |
States, Midwest, Ohio
The school leaders say the voucher program is syphoning taxpayer money from their districts in order to pay for students who choose to go to private schools instead. Read More...
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Jan 6, 2022 |WZTV | remote learning |
Towns, States, South, Tennessee
The national teacher shortage has led to a new approach at Maury County Public Schools. The district is now using virtual teachers in some of its classes to make up for the missing teachers. Read More...
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