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Your Daily News Clips for February, 14 2022

CER Daily Media Clips for February 14, 2022

Column: Will there be big education changes after pandemic? No, but look deeper.

Feb 14, 2022 |Washington Post | innovation | National

A historian of schools sees good news in the recent turmoil, plus long-term advances we have not yet noticed.

Commentary: Blue state parents turn to home schooling

Feb 14, 2022 |Washington Examiner | homeschooling | National

Closed public schools. COVID-19 mandates. Woke curricula. For these reasons and more, parents in blue states are turning to home schooling in droves.Nationally, home schooling has boomed. According to Census Bureau data, the proportion of households home-schooling their children skyrocketed from 5% in spring 2020 to 20% in spring 2021.

Upset over a new charter school in Baker, city leaders petition public, consider lawsuit

Feb 14, 2022 |The Advocate | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Louisiana

Baker leaders aren't giving up even though the state approved a charter school last month to open there in 2023 despite their objections, and they may file a lawsuit to try and stop it.

Adams’ unlikely alliance with the head of New York’s teachers union

Feb 14, 2022 |Politico | teachers unions | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The warm relationship between Adams and Michael Mulgrew shows the mayor’s pragmatic approach to governing and the tough political spot the union leader is in. But don’t expect the honeymoon to last.

What’s causing canceled classes and risking aid for Michigan’s K-12 schools?

Feb 14, 2022 |The Detroit News | school funding | States, Midwest, Michigan

Yet more than a quarter of his 2,500 Eastpointe Community Schools students have missed 20 days of school already this school year. Each of those days counts as student attendance falling below 75%, the daily legal threshold to collect full state funding.

Dayton startup wants to fill the gaps in educational environment

Feb 14, 2022 |Dayton Business Journal | microschools | Towns, States, Midwest, Ohio

Just Like Me Presents currently provides supplemental teaching materials and a condensed curriculum to parents, teachers and organizations. Person’s goal for 2022 is to open a 30-student class for grades K-2 in her downtown space later this fall.

Why Black educational leadership matters so much: The view from a charter school CEO

Feb 14, 2022 |New York Daily News | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The oft-quoted statistic suggests only 2% of teachers nationally are Black men. At Ascend, that number is 14%. Fifty-nine percent of our staff are Black, including 60% of our teachers, 60% of school leaders, and 57% of the executive team. They serve a student body that is 76% Black. And we still have a long way to go.

Attacks On Charter Schools Places Their Muni Bonds In Jeopardy

Feb 14, 2022 |Forbes | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey

University Heights Charter School in Newark NJ appears to have become the victim of New Jersey's teachers union fight to end charter schools in that state. In this case, it is at the cost of bondholders as well as the students. The school has a $14.9 million municipal bond issue by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority

Nearly a quarter of students enrolling in AL colleges need remedial classes

Feb 14, 2022 | WPMI | accountability | States, South, Alabama

Not everyone who gets into college is prepared for college-level math or English classes. According to the latest data from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, 24% of students enrolling in a public Alabama college or university need to take a remedial English or math class or both.

Opinion: Black students benefit in charter-school states

Feb 14, 2022 |Bowling Green Daily News | charter schools | States, South, Kentucky

Here’s also hoping that the legislature will take the steps needed to finally make charter schools a reality, replicating in Kentucky the kind of success we’re seeing in a growing number of states nationwide where school choice is already a given.

Monday Minneapolis Public School teachers start casting votes for and against striking

Feb 14, 2022 |KARE 11 | teachers unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Minnesota

The outcome of the vote could impact the rest of the school year for students and staff

This proposed charter school promised free college credits. Why did they drop their plans?

Feb 14, 2022 |Herald News | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

Opponents of the proposed Innovators Charter School are declaring victory after the group behind the new school announced they would withdraw their application for state approval, following months of organizing and debate over the school's merits.

Alberto Carvalho begins new role as Los Angeles Unified’s superintendent

Feb 14, 2022 |EdSource | school districts | Towns, States, West, California

Los Angeles Unified School District’s new superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, begins his new position Monday, following a 13-year tenure at Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Keeping kids in school during the pandemic has been tough. In WA, at least 29,000 can’t be fou

Feb 14, 2022 |Seattle Times | accountability | States, West, Washington

Around the state and country, school districts have grappled with big enrollment drops and high numbers of disengaged students during the pandemic — to the extent that some, as far as educators know, have gone missing. They are not going to school anywhere at all.

Educators warn bills to give parents more power could push teachers out

Feb 14, 2022 |Minnesota Reformer | school choice | States, Midwest, Minnesota

Mostly Republican governors and legislators in more than a dozen states are fighting to give parents more control over what their children learn in public schools, banking on so-called parents’ rights bills as a political winner. But educators worry that empowering parents to veto books and history lessons would push many already stressed teachers out of the profession.

Column: Support charter schools in Virginia

Feb 14, 2022 |Richmond Times-Dispatch | charter schools | States, South, Virginia

Several myths about charter schools are being shared as part of an apparent attempt to defeat Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed legislation to expand charter schools.

Kansas high school students are thriving under JAG-K. A $3.5M investment could help thousands more.

Feb 14, 2022 |Topeka Capital-Journal | higher education | States, Midwest, Kansas

Russell-Unger and about 4,000 other students across Kansas are enrolled in Jobs for America’s Graduates Kansas — the state’s chapter of a national program focused on getting students not only across the graduation stage but also to careers and education after high school.

Delaware charter schools still offer a bold path forward for our kids | Opinion

Feb 14, 2022 |Delaware Online | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Delaware

The original plan was to have a few charter schools to model a new way of operating that, eventually, would be adopted by all public schools and replace the existing system of school boards and education bureaucracies. That “new way” was local control with operational decision-making at the building level by the people hired to educate the students — the administrators and teachers.

Budget report on Pa. education agency provokes spat between lawmakers, watchdogs

Feb 14, 2022 |Spotlight PA | school funding | States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

In a section of the report analyzing the relationship between Pennsylvania’s spending on public schools and students’ standardized test performances over the course of a single year, the state’s Independent Fiscal Office concluded: “the data suggests there is little or no correlation.

In-person learning brings ‘COVID bump’ in enrollment to Michigan Catholic schools after

Feb 14, 2022 |mlive.com | catholic schools | States, Midwest, Michigan

Kathryn Dobija witnessed the pitfalls and limitations of remote learning with her Ann Arbor Public Schools third grader in spring 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Micro school offers alternative learning experience amid pandemic challenges

Feb 14, 2022 |Austin Spectrum | microschools | Towns, States, South, Texas

Eight-year-old Alice Flores is showing off a new way of learning in the classroom. With interactive menus, colors and a kid-friendly layout, Flores is excited to begin today’s lesson.

Roaring Fork school board updated on charter school negotiations

Feb 14, 2022 |Glenwood Springs Post Independent | charter schools | Towns, States, West, Colorado

There are a couple negotiation points Stein updated the board about at Wednesday’s meeting. The first negotiation point was demographics. The contract with TRCS will include language requiring that TRCS have enrollment policies in place so that student demographics reflect district demographics.

Ames summer program plans full-time private school expansion

Feb 14, 2022 |Ames Tribune | innovation | Towns, States, Midwest, Iowa

The Community Academy has existed as a summer program since 2018, but leaders envision a full-time, year-round school to open this fall.

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