CER Daily Media Clips

CER Daily Media Clips for July 18, 2022

Charter Schools Win a Washington Battle

Jul 18, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | charter schools | National

Congratulations are in order to thousands of public charter-school parents, educators and advocates who lifted their voices in opposition to the U.S. Education Department’s proposed changes to the federal Charter School Program. Thanks to their relentless advocacy, the finalized rules adopted recently are more rational and slightly less burdensome than the bull-in-a-china-shop scheme the department unveiled in March.

Opinion | Co-Opting the Parents Revolt

Jul 18, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | education reform, parent choice, school choice | National

One political consequence of the pandemic has been a spontaneous uprising among parents across the U.S. against school lockdowns and woke curricula. Now the Biden Administration has decided to mobilize a political counter-force that may be violating federal law.

Opinion | Those destroying public schools don’t want you thinking about alternatives

Jul 18, 2022 |New York Post | charter schools, public schools, school choice, teachers unions | States, Northeast, New York

Public schools are in a serious downward spiral. The options are fixing them, which hasn’t worked for decades, or letting parents get their kids out.

Teachers Unions Are Why More Parents Want School Choice

Jul 18, 2022 |Yahoo! News | achievement, teachers unions | States, West, California

Los Angeles and the country’s other major liberal urban and suburban areas, in alliance with teachers unions, perpetrated what The Atlantic recently called “the biggest disruption in the history of American education.

Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy nearly two-thirds of the way toward raising $25 mil for new school

Jul 18, 2022 |Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | charter schools, school funding | States, Midwest, Wisconsin

The development, which still needs city approval from Milwaukee's Board of Zoning Appeals, would add space for hundreds more students in the high-demand charter school.

Schools have spent little to address COVID learning loss

Jul 18, 2022 |San Mateo Daily Journal | school boards, school funding | States, West, California

This despite data that indicates that learning slowed, especially among the youngest students, and gaps in achievement between Black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian peers widened during distance learning in 2020-21.

Teaching college enrollment has plummeted. The NC Teaching Fellows program is fueling limited growth

Jul 18, 2022 |North Carolina Public Radio | enrollment, teacher training, teachers | States, South, North Carolina

Education majors fell since the recession, classroom vacancies are now soaring

School board says opening charter schools would ‘create competition’

Jul 18, 2022 |The Natchez Democrat | charter obstacles, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter schools | States, South, Mississippi

Originally, proposals for four different charter schools to be located in Adams County were submitted to the Mississippi Charter School Authorization Board for consideration, but only one has made it to the final stage of the state’s approval process.

Schenectady planners OK charter school

Jul 18, 2022 |Times Union | charter approvals, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter proposal, charter schools | States, Northeast, New York

After ironing out some safety concerns around student pickup and drop-off, a proposal to open a charter school in the downtown area recently won approval from city planners, and now must obtain a certificate of occupancy before it can open up next month.

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