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CER Daily Media Clips for February 9, 2022
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has made inequity in the K-12 system a priority. But the nation’s more than 13,000 school districts appear to be responding with varying levels of sincerity. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |NBC News | teachers unions |
National
Teachers unions on Tuesday called for the mandate rollbacks to be informed by science, not politics, as mask-wearing has become an increasingly polarized issue. They also called for states to establish policies around when masks would or would not be required in schools should there be another surge in cases. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | school funding |
National
The lawsuit, which has been grinding through the courts for more than seven years, is one of several legal actions across the country asking courts to step in and force state legislatures to improve funding for public education. Other cases are active in Tennessee, North Carolina and New York. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |Chicago Daily Herald | teachers unions |
Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois
After a chaotic return to school Monday in the wake of a downstate judge's ruling late last week that seemingly overturned the state's classroom masking requirement, the Illinois Federation of Teachers held an emergency town hall with more than 250 local union chapter presidents throughout the state. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |The Patriot News | state budget |
States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
As far as charter school reforms, making dramatic changes to the state’s 25-year-old charter school law has been an elusive goal for several administrations. Wolf apparently wants to take one final shot at getting something done in this space, which in turn, would lower the cost of these independently operated public schools on school districts, which are charters’ sole funding source. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |St. Louis Post-Dispatch | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Missouri
Confluence Academies charter schools in St. Louis can continue to operate for another five years under increased oversight from the state, the Missouri Board of Education decided Tuesday.
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Feb 9, 2022 |Arizona Daily Star | school choice |
States, West, Arizona
Republican lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to approving what would be the largest-ever increase in who can get a voucher of state funds to attend private and parochial schools. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |KNOE | school choice |
States, South, Louisiana
Could parents soon choose any school in the state to send their child to? Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says it could be a way to improve education in Louisiana. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |Post and Courier | school choice |
States, South, South Carolina
Republican legislators are on track to create a private school choice program in South Carolina after years of failed attempts, driven by parental complaints about closed classrooms and virtual-only non-learning amid the pandemic. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |Tampa Bay Times | charter schools |
Towns, States, South, Florida
Chastened by the state last summer, the Hillsborough County School Board approved four charter school renewals on Tuesday even as some members complained about having to do so.
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Feb 9, 2022 |mlive.com | charter schools |
Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan
Grand Valley State University has launched a new scholarship program for students who graduate from a GVSU-authorized charter high school.
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Feb 9, 2022 |Washington Post | school districts |
Towns, States, South, Maryland
Montgomery County voted to hire its first woman as schools superintendent — an African American educator who was a leader during the pandemic — a milestone in Maryland’s largest school system and another marker of its ever-increasing diversity. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |The Herald News | charter schools |
Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts
“Over the past months and weeks, it has become increasingly clear that political complexities on the ground will make it very difficult for us to successfully launch our early college charter public school on the south coast at this time. As a result, we need additional time to continue to share the vision for our proposed educational model in the community,” she said.
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Feb 9, 2022 |Asbury Park Press | accountability |
States, Northeast, New Jersey
For Freehold Borough and other school districts in Monmouth and Ocean counties, the major impact has been on so-called “learning loss,” the diminished education of many students who were forced to engage in virtual or remote learning for so long.
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Feb 9, 2022 |Colorado Politics | teachers unions |
States, West, Colorado
Public regard for teachers' unions took a nosedive in a survey that shows Coloradans strongly supporting parents having more say in their children's education.
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Feb 9, 2022 |Los Angeles Times | online learning |
Towns, States, West, California
Anticipating that thousands of Los Angeles Unified students may not be vaccinated when the district mandate kicks in this fall, educators are preparing a significant expansion of online learning options, taking preliminary steps Tuesday to establish up to six new transitional-kindergarten-though-12th-grade virtual schools that could enroll up to 15,000 students. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |TAPinto | charter schools |
States, Northeast, New Jersey
The State Department of Education denied multiple requests from charter schools to add seats in Newark in decisions that will result in some students having to be sent back into district schools and hundreds more who will have to wait longer on charter-school waiting lists. Read More...
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Feb 9, 2022 |WBRE | online learning |
Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania
The pandemic changed a lot of things including how children learn. More and more students are opting for virtual school. Read More...
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