CER Daily Media Clips

CER Daily Media Clips for July 19, 2022

Virginia’s scholarship tax credits are an educational beacon of hope

Jul 19, 2022 |Washington Examiner | private schools, school choice, tax credits | States, South, Virginia

Long before the creation of EISTCP a decade ago, the Congress understood the public benefit provided by religious schools, authorizing public funding and tax benefits to support them. Examples include federal Title I and Title II funds, and a federal charitable income tax deduction for contributing to nonprofit religious organizations.

Students Are Learning Well Again. But Full Recovery? That’s a Long Way Off.

Jul 19, 2022 |New York Times | achievement, school funding, spending, virtual learning | National

A new report estimates that it may take students at least three to five years to recover from the pandemic. Federal relief money will most likely have run out by then.

Pa.’s teacher shortage is now a ‘crisis.’

Jul 19, 2022 |Philadelphia Inquirer | teacher certification, teacher pay, teachers | States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

The state Education Department on Monday laid out a road map for bolstering its number of teachers in the next three years, vowing immediate action to stem its “educator workforce crisis,” illustrated in the number of teachers it certifies alone: Ten years ago, Pennsylvania certified 20,000 teachers; last year, it issued credentials to just 6,000.

Study: Student gains last year narrowed COVID learning gap

Jul 19, 2022 |Washington Post | achievement, public schools | National

Gains across income levels partially closed the gap in learning that resulted from the pandemic, researchers found. But students in high-poverty schools had fallen further behind, making it likely they will need more time than their higher-income peers to make a full recovery.

Educators brace for back-to-school mental health crisis: Report

Jul 19, 2022 |Washington Times | spending, teachers, virtual learning | National

Public schools are adding mental health staff and “therapeutic support classrooms” to absorb an expected flood of anxious and depressed students returning next month from two years of virtual learning.

How Summer Camps & Afterschool Programs Can Step Up to Stem Learning Loss

Jul 19, 2022 |The 74 | achievement, public schools, summer learning | National

America’s children need to bounce back from the well-documented negative effects of the pandemic, and the nation is allocating more funding and attention to summer and afterschool learning than ever before.

Mask mandates return to California schools

Jul 19, 2022 |HRM America | other education issues, public schools | States, West, California

Effective July 18, several California educational institutions have reinstated indoor mask mandates as a result of rising COVID-19 cases.

Operation Education: What schools are families choosing?

Jul 19, 2022 |WSBT 22 | enrollment, school choice, vouchers | States, Midwest, Indiana

Families can choose to send their children to public schools or charter schools of their choice. Parents can also chose most private schools in the state and many are eligible to receive financial help through the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program.

After 2 years homeschooling using high school curriculum, boy, 13, graduates college with 3.78 GPA

Jul 19, 2022 |Epoch Times | achievement, homeschooling | States, Midwest, Missouri

He finished high-school algebra and geometry at 7, took trigonometry at 8, and enrolled at college three weeks after his ninth birthday for calculus classes and beyond, earning an associate’s degree in mathematics at the tender age of 11 during the pandemic.

School board reviews district progress survey

Jul 19, 2022 |Suffolk News-Herald | accountablility, achievement, curriculum, school boards | States, South, Virginia

One of the most important indicators of the district’s progress is this survey, an annual questionnaire that measures student, parent and employee satisfaction towards the educational environment at the city’s schools. Superintendent Dr. John B. Gordon III, and Shawn Dickerson, supervisor of data and research, presented the survey’s findings for the board’s first agenda item.

Report shows enrollment in DC schools is down and projected to continue to decline

Jul 19, 2022 |abc 7 News | enrollment, public schools | States, South, District of Columbia

A report by the DC Policy Center shows enrollment growth stalled in D.C. schools during the pandemic and if the trend continues, an enrollment that currently stands at 87,000 could decline to 81,000 by 2026.

Tennessee school voucher program sign-up begins Tuesday

Jul 19, 2022 |Fox 13 Memphis | private schools, school choice, vouchers | States, South, Tennessee

It’s the new school voucher system the state named the Education Savings Account (ESA) Program. After being held up by court battles over the last three years, starting this school year, it allows parents in just two districts, Memphis-Shelby County Schools and Nashville Metro Schools, to use state money to send their children to private school.

Eighth-graders at Success Academy pass majority of Regents

Jul 19, 2022 |New York Post | achievement, charter schools, testing | States, Northeast, New York

The roughly 1,000 students at Success Academy middle schools took and aced four of the five Regent exams required for a high school diploma in New York, The Post has learned.

Here’s what charter enrollment numbers tell about Black students

Jul 19, 2022 |St. Louis American | charter schools, enrollment, virtual schools | National

During the pandemic, we’ve seen an exodus of teachers from public schools, but it turns out educators aren’t the only ones ditching traditional K-12 education institutions.

To view this email in your browser, CLICK HERE.

__________

If you'd like to unsubscribe and stop receiving these emails click here .