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CER Daily Media Clips for January 7, 2022
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Jan 7, 2022 |STOP Award | innovation |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
This $5 million Rescue Fund has been created by STOP Award founder Janine Yass in partnership with the Center for Education Reform to assist schools or programs that can immediately start or expand existing schools for students.
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Jan 7, 2022 |Associated Press | general teacher issues |
National
Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Newsweek | elected officials |
National
Divisive and complex issues such as the pandemic response and critical race theory have a lot to do with the attention now focused on education, but there is also common ground sitting just below the surface Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |New York Times | other education issues |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
While city officials clash with the teachers’ union over how to return to classrooms amid Omicron, families around Chicago reflect on the pandemic’s effects on their children. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Washington Post | other education issues |
National
Instead of arguing over whether schools are “safe,” let’s agree that schools are essential and then work to reduce risk to get students back to in-person learning. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Washington Examiner | teachers unions |
National
It started in Chicago, where an incredible 91% of union teachers voted to go on strike and refused to do what they get paid to do, which is teach. Then the union walkouts spread to Maryland, New Jersey, and California. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |City Journal | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Despite the recent Omicron coronavirus wave, public schools throughout the nation are mostly staying open. But the Chicago Public School system has shut down after the teachers’ union voted to demand virtual-only teaching for the next two weeks. This action harms children, particularly poor children, who often do not have other sources of educational enrichment at home. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |National Review | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
A Chicago Teachers Union organizer sent an email to members on Thursday encouraging them to refuse to return to school buildings for extra pay after the union voted to shift to remote instruction without the district’s approval. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Chicago Sun-Times | school districts |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Despite the skyrocketing caseloads linked to the omicron variant, Chavez said she’s comfortable with CPS’ plan to keep kids in school. At the same time, she faulted the CTU for allegedly spreading misinformation aimed at causing “havoc. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Star Advertiser | charter schools |
Towns, States, West, Hawaii
Kamaile Academy Public Charter School in Waianae has sent 100 middle school students home to quarantine, while DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach has shifted to full virtual learning for at least two weeks. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |New York Post | catholic schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, New York
Mayor Eric Adams has commendably signaled his intention to ignore United Federation of Teachers chief Michael Mulgrew’s suggestion that public schools close and shift to remote learning, insisting that after two years of “lost education,” we simply “can’t do it again. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Chicago Tribune | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
Chicago Public Schools has canceled Friday classes as an ongoing standoff with the teachers union spills into a third day of educational disruption. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Houston Chronicle | accountability |
Towns, States, South, Texas
Houston Independent School District is calling on students and alumni for help to address the loss of learning its elementary students suffered due to challenges from the pandemic. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Chalkbeat | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Texas
A planned San Antonio charter school was on the verge of winning final approval from the Texas Education Agency last August when a final set of requests arrived. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |San Francisco Chronicle | school districts |
Towns, States, West, California
Nearly 900 San Francisco teachers and aides were not in their classrooms Thursday, a significant increase in absences over the previous day, deepening a crisis that’s been unfolding since Monday as district officials scrambled to make sure enough qualified adults could fill in and families worried about whether their children’s education would be interrupted — again. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Just the News | school choice |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
Two Pennsylvania state senators are proposing new Educational Opportunity Accounts (EOAs) to expand school choice for military families. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |InDepthNH.org | school choice |
States, Northeast, New Hampshire
The House also tabled House Bill 607 which would have expanded the state’s new voucher-like school choice program to allow the use of local property tax money. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Daily Herald | school choice |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
So, it's official: Some urban public school districts are employment programs first and institutions of learning secondarily. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Bluegrass Institute | accountability |
States, South, Kentucky
During legislative hearings today about Senate Bill 1, which makes important improvements to the state’s School Based Decision Making (SBDM) law, there were multiple mentions that Kentucky’s education system now ranks somewhere in the middle for educational performance. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Philadelphia Weekly | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
It’s been more than three years since the Philadelphia Board of Education last approved a new public charter school. With no end to the freeze in sight, what amounts to a de facto ban on new public charter schools is causing headaches for tens of thousands of families that are waiting for a spot as demand for seats grows. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |The Texan | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Texas
Life School Superintendent Brent Wilson said he was unsurprised but “disappointed” by TASB's advocacy against charter schools. Read More...
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Jan 7, 2022 |Florida Politics | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Florida
At a virtual press conference, Donalds — through a 3-D rendered avatar — said this type of virtual instruction will be unlike anything students have experienced, whether during the pandemic or before it. Read More...
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