CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for March, 23 2022

CER Daily Media Clips for March 23, 2022

School Test Scores Start to Rise With Return of In-Person Classes

Mar 23, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | accountability | National

The return to in-person classes this school year has helped students begin to learn again at a normal pace, a new national study shows, though many are still facing setbacks from months of pandemic-disrupted education.

What Families Should Know About K-12 Online Schools

Mar 23, 2022 |US News & World Report | online learning | National

As schools reopened last fall, many families were relieved to leave virtual learning behind. But for some – particularly those with health concerns or kids who’ve struggled in traditional school – online school may be an attractive alternative for the long term.

Jalen Rose, His Detroit Charter School Profiled on HBO’s ‘Real Sports’

Mar 23, 2022 |Barrett Media | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Michigan

“It’s going to be young people that are achieving their goals and aspiring to do great things and there are going to be adults that are helping that happen. And I have total faith in this city.”

Detroit public schools plan for more than $1 billion in federal aid

Mar 23, 2022 |Michigan Radio | federal budget | States, Midwest, Michigan

Detroit's public school system is investing much of its $1.3 billion in federal COVID-19 relief aid to improve learning for its students and help fix what has been broken for decades.

GOP lawmakers reject attempts to change education freedom accounts, ‘divisive concepts’

Mar 23, 2022 |New Hampshire Bulletin | school choice | States, Northeast, New Hampshire

The message was clear: New Hampshire’s education freedom account program is here to stay. In a series of votes on the House floor last week, the Republican majority rebuffed efforts to restrain the latest education funding program, which allows parents to use the state’s public school funding allocation for their child and put it toward home school, private school, and other costs.

Masks can now come off inside L.A. Unified classrooms

Mar 23, 2022 |Los Angeles Times | other education issues | Towns, States, West, California

Teachers and students on Wednesday will be able to see an unaccustomed sight inside Los Angeles school district classrooms: smiles.Read More...

Charter schools must share in referendum funding, court rules

Mar 23, 2022 |Miami Today | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Florida

Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled last week that Miami-Dade County charter schools are indeed eligible for funding approved through a 2018 voter-approved public school system referendum.

Upstate charter school offers unique experience

Mar 23, 2022 |FOX Carolina | charter schools | Towns, States, South, North Carolina

Is your child interested in learning a second language? A Greenville charter school is offering something that’s rare in South Carolina and enrollment is open for next year.

Metro school board members debate new policy on state oversight of charter schools

Mar 23, 2022 |The Tennessean | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Tennessee

Changes proposed to the board's policy around charter school applications would waive the board's right to “exercise its legal option” to become an authorizer of such a school, according to district documents.

Here are the three finalists for New Orleans public schools superintendent

Mar 23, 2022 |NOLA.com | school districts | Towns, States, South, Louisiana

After more than four hours of private discussion, the Orleans Parish School Board picked three finalists Tuesday night for superintendent of schools: Marshall Tuck, Avis Williams and André Wright.

Freire Charter School withdraws application for Newark campus

Mar 23, 2022 |Newark Post | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Delaware

“As we withdraw our application today, we ask that you join us in realigning so that the 'us' versus 'them' feeling dissolves and we can work together to provide the strongest education possible for every Delaware student,” Nate Durant, head of Freire's Wilmington school, wrote in a letter to the Delaware Department of Education.

Editorial: Lack of progress on learning gaps

Mar 23, 2022 |Star Tribune | accountability | States, Midwest, Minnesota

Though the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has several programs that are supposed to help address the state's student achievement gaps, they are largely ineffective.

‘Who suffers? Our babies’ | Closing California’s student achievement gap

Mar 23, 2022 |ABC 10 Sacramento | accountability | States, West, California

Black students have one of the lowest graduation rates in California. During the 2020-21 school year, graduation rates for Black students statewide dropped by 4%.

Are Philly schools’ 2022-23 budgets a ‘massacre’ or advancing equity?

Mar 23, 2022 |Philadelphia Inquirer | school districts | Towns, States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

Some schools will lose multiple positions next year, and the principals' union is furious. But the district says it's a re-allocation of resources and a $170 million budget increase.

‘Everything is on the table’ as IPS addresses enrollment decline and too many schools

Mar 23, 2022 |Chalkbeat | enrollment | States, Midwest, Indiana

Indianapolis Public Schools has too few students for the number of buildings in the district. A dozen of those facilities in use are in poor or worse condition, district leaders say.

California school enrollment over two decades: gains and losses by region with pandemic year drops

Mar 23, 2022 |EdSource | enrollment | States, West, California

For two decades, K-12 enrollment in California was stable, hovering between 6.1 million and 6.2 million students. But within the state, there was movement: sharp enrollment declines in coastal counties – the rural north and urban Los Angeles and Orange County, where housing prices outpaced incomes – and sharp increases inland, as families moved east to bigger lots and cheaper homes.

Where have all the students gone? Over 100,000 left New York public schools over a two-year period

Mar 23, 2022 |WKBW | enrollment | States, Northeast, New York

According to the Empire Center, over the last two years there has been a combined 5% drop in K-12 enrollment in the state with more than 100,000 students exiting the state's public school system.

School on Wheels offers tutors with special focus on kids experiencing homelessness

Mar 23, 2022 |WTHR | other education issues | Towns, States, Midwest, Indiana

School on Wheels comes to schools where there are students experiencing homelessness. They hold 45-minute sessions with the student to offer individualized tutoring.

Mayor Wu urges state education board against Boston Public Schools takeover

Mar 23, 2022 |The Boston Globe | state takeover | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

Just four months into her term, Mayor Michelle Wu found herself Tuesday launching a defense against a possible state takeover of Boston Public Schools, becoming the first sitting Boston mayor in recent memory to speak before the state board of education.

Sacramento families scramble to find where to leave their kids ahead of teachers strike

Mar 23, 2022 |KCRA 3 | teachers unions | Towns, States, West, California

With Sacramento City Unified School District teachers and other staff members officially going on strike starting Wednesday, thousands of parents across Sacramento have had to scramble to make arrangements for where to leave their children while they go to work.

Battle brewing over proposed charter school moratorium

Mar 23, 2022 |Deleware Public Media | charter schools | States, South, Delaware

What seemed like an unlikely battle over charter schools last month has suddenly turned into a blistering war of words, with the next skirmish likely to occur Wednesday afternoon in Dover, when the House Education Committee meets in Legislative Hall.

Eric Adams makes picks with charter ties for schools governance panel

Mar 23, 2022 |The Madison Leader Gazette | elected officials | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

Mayor Eric Adams appointed a top charter school administrator and a slew of close allies to the Department of Education’s oversight board Tuesday to a mixed response. While proponents of school choice welcomed several of the new faces, charter foes from DOE watchdogs to union representation questioned the picks with strong ties to the privately operated schools that receive public funds.

Charter school bill wins passage in Kentucky House

Mar 23, 2022 |Associated Press | charter schools | States, South, Kentucky

After years of inaction, charter schools would gain a foothold in Kentucky and be supplied with a permanent funding stream under a bill that won passage Tuesday in the state House.

JCPS envisions streamlined ‘choice zones’ in student assignment proposal

Mar 23, 2022 |WDRB | school districts | Towns, States, South, Kentucky

Jefferson County Public Schools unveiled a proposed overhaul of its complex student assignment plan, which aims to deliver more options for families in and near west Louisville.

Opinion: Hispanic Texans aren’t getting behind progressive policies

Mar 23, 2022 |The Dallas Morning News | school choice | States, South, Texas

On some issues, survey responses aligned overwhelmingly with Republican causes. For instance, 78% of Hispanics surveyed said they strongly or somewhat support school choice. And not just charter schools; the way that question was worded includes the idea of vouchers for private schools.

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