CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for March, 10 2022

CER Daily Media Clips for March 10, 2022

Did We Forget What School Is For?

Mar 10, 2022 |The Atlantic | other education issues | National

The pandemic should have forced us to reassess what really matters in public school; instead, it’s a crisis that we’ve just about wasted. The classroom has become a half-abandoned battlefield, where grown-ups who claim to be protecting students from the virus, from books, from ideologies and counter-ideologies end up using children to protect themselves and their own entrenched camps.

One Year After Congress Appropriated Over $122 Billion for K-12, Many School Districts Are Strugglin

Mar 10, 2022 |The 74 | federal budget | National

As the nation’s school superintendents gathered last month for their first in-person meeting since the pandemic began, Dan Domenech, the organization’s leader, pressed U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about an urgent issue.

Editorial: Exam results in: Horrific reading losses mean Weingarten must go

Mar 10, 2022 |New York Post | teachers unions | National

Now the numbers are in. And they confirm what she denied but every parent knew: Closed schools hurt our kids. Because of the senseless policies Weingarten championed, our youngest students are missing crucial reading benchmarks.

Minneapolis teachers union pushes support-staff raises; district questions how much it can afford

Mar 10, 2022 |Star Tribune | teachers unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Minnesota

Wages for support staffers have proven a key issue in the negotiations between the Minneapolis teachers union and the school district. The city's educators began their strike Tuesday after union and school officials were unable to reach an agreement on that matter as well as class-size caps, increased mental health support for students and “competitive” salaries for teachers.

The virtual future of CCPS: Next fall, Chesterfield opens its first stand-alone digital school

Mar 10, 2022 |Chesterfield Observer | online learning | Towns, States, South, Virginia

In the age of COVID-19 and the Internet of Things, Chesterfield County Public Schools are meeting the moment – a rising demand for learning spaces that offer families the flexibility to better merge education with the logistics of daily life. The virtual options that CCPS has offered for about 18 years saw a spike in interest in March 2020, a CCPS administrator says, amid the confusing and deadly early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

AFT President Randi Weingarten joins striking Proviso teachers on the picket line

Mar 10, 2022 |Chicago Tribune | teacher unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

Classes were canceled for a third day at Proviso High School District 209, where striking teachers were bolstered by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who joined forces with educators on the picket line Wednesday.

Find common ground on charter schools and serve Tennessee children and families | Opinion

Mar 10, 2022 |The Tennessean | charter schools | States, South, Tennessee

Every morning, more than 14,000 children walk through the doors of a Nashville public charter school. Our students are musicians, mathematicians and athletes. Our parents are your neighbors, co-workers and friends. Our schools are located everywhere from Madison to Antioch and our enrollment reflects our city’s beautiful diversity – eight in ten Nashville charter school students are Black or Latinx and three in four are eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Bill Would Let Hawaii Home-Schoolers Compete In Sports

Mar 10, 2022 |Civil Beat | homeschool | States, West, Hawaii

Hawaii is one of 20 states that bans home-schooled students from competing in interscholastic sports.

RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity alleges teacher contracts are unconstitutional

Mar 10, 2022 |Providence Journal | teachers unions | States, Northeast, Rhode Island

A report issued Wednesday by an advocacy group alleges that the union dues-paying requirements in at least 10 Rhode Island school district contracts violate a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Milwaukee Carmen union drive shows how charter schools straddle public and private sectors

Mar 10, 2022 |WUWM | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Since former Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the law known as Act 10 in 2011, public school unions have seen their collective bargaining rights curtailed.

Families apply for W.Va. Hope Scholarship program; future uncertain amid lawsuit

Mar 10, 2022 |WCHS | school choice | States, South, West Virginia

A good idea, or an unconstitutional overreach? That's the big debate on West Virginia's new Hope Scholarship program.

Poll finds Oklahoma voters oppose public funds going to private school scholarships

Mar 10, 2022 |KOSU | school choice | States, South, Oklahoma

As Oklahoma legislators debate the merits of policies funneling taxpayer money toward private school scholarships, a poll of likely voters across the state found a majority oppose that type of legislation.

Opinion: Lift the charter cap to serve NYC families

Mar 10, 2022 |New York Daily News | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

What percentage of New York City students deserve a spot in one of the city’s 272 publicly-funded and generally high-performing charter schools? If you answered “13%,” then you ought to be highly satisfied with the city’s current education policies — and, in particular, with the statewide cap on charter schools that precludes any further expansion of its charter sector.

Charter schools to rally in Trenton Thursday to protest state’s refusal to allow them to expan

Mar 10, 2022 |The Star Ledger | charter schools | States, Northeast, New Jersey

In the sunny lunchroom of Philip’s Academy Charter School in Newark, 8th-grader Alyana Bonilla talked about aging out of PACS this Spring after the state Department of Education denied its application to expand into a high school next Fall.

Gov. Lee defends charter school expansion plans, relationship with Hillsdale College

Mar 10, 2022 |WKRN | charter schools | States, South, Tennessee

After some bi-partisan pushback, Gov. Bill Lee is defending his plan to expand charter schools and his administration’s relationship with Hillsdale College.

Inside the debate over teacher rights and innovation schools in Denver

Mar 10, 2022 |Chalkbeat | innovation | States, West, Colorado

A sweeping proposal that would shore up teacher job protections, standardize school calendars, and even ban busywork has divided Denver teachers, principals, and parents.

Education reform bills sail through Wisconsin Senate, face headwinds on governor’s desk

Mar 10, 2022 |The Center Square | charter schools | States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Protection of parental rights and other education reforms are the focus of several bills passed by the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday.

Alabama’s ‘Ultimate School Choice’ Bill Gets Complicated When Considering Race and

Mar 10, 2022 |Birmingham Watch | school choice | States, South, Alabama

The Parents’ Choice Act is outgoing Republican Sen. Del Marsh’s Hail Mary for education reform. SB140 has been dubbed the “ultimate school choice” bill because it would give participating parents $5,600 per kid in state money deposited in an education savings account to use for private school or another public school. Marsh said this bill will put everyone on a level playing field.

NJ denies charter expansions. Is it a sign of growing NJEA, or local schools opposition?

Mar 10, 2022 |New Jersey Herald | charter schools | States, Northeast, New Jersey

Charter schools are a safe space for Abel Escobar, a “timid” ninth-grader who worries that he will have to attend his local public high school in Trenton next year, his mother said. His charter school's application to expand beyond the ninth grade was rejected alongside eight others by the state Department of Education last month, a move that has upset parents, including Escobar's mother Martha Inestroza.

House sends open enrollment, charter funding bills to Senate

Mar 10, 2022 |News Tribune | charter schools | States, Midwest, Missouri

A pair of education bills supported by school-choice advocates narrowly passed out of the Missouri House on Wednesday, overcoming a diminished GOP majority that had threatened to doom their chances earlier in the legislative session.

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