CER Daily Media Clips

CER Daily Media Clips for July 27, 2022

New Goldwater Report Reveals How AZ Public School Spending Surged During Pandemic

Jul 27, 2022 |Goldwater Institute | public schools, school funding, spending | States, Midwest, Ohio, West, Arizona

Unfortunately, these final months of the 2019-2020 school year now look less like an unprecedented disruption to K-12 education and more like the modest prologue to a nearly 2-year saga of previously unfathomable institutional failure.

Harmony Public Schools Offering Virtual Option For K-12

Jul 27, 2022 |Focus Daily News | charter schools, public schools, virtual learning, virtual schools | States, South, Texas

Harmony Public Schools will offer a full virtual learning option to DFW students in kindergarten through Grade 12 when the 2022-23 school year begins in August.

State says Alaska homeschooling families can use public funds for some private school classes

Jul 27, 2022 |Alaska Public Media | private schools, school choice, vouchers | States, West, Alaska

Families enrolled in state-funded homeschool programs in Alaska can use their student funding allotments to pay for some private school classes, according to an opinion released Monday by the state Department of Law.

California schools have seen huge enrollment declines. Where are all the students?

Jul 27, 2022 |EdSource | enrollment, public schools | States, West, California

California's K-12 enrollment decline of more than 270,000 students since the pandemic began is largely attributable to people leaving the state, not enrolling children in transitional kindergarten or kindergarten, or deciding to home-school their children but failing to file the paperwork to account for them, the head of the state's largest school district and other experts said Sunday.

One charter school wins Memphis school board approval

Jul 27, 2022 |Chalkbeat Tennessee | charter approvals, charter schools | States, South, Tennessee

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board on Tuesday approved just one of four charter school applications for the 2023-24 school year.

Students from Brass City Charter School shadows health care professionals at St. Mary’s

Jul 27, 2022 |WFSB Eyewitness News | achievement, charter schools, curriculum | States, Northeast, Connecticut

A group of students are seeing the operations at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury.

The students were shadowing all kinds of health care workers and are seeing demonstrations first-hand.

Private school vouchers draw interest from 2,185 Tennessee families

Jul 27, 2022 |Chalkbeat Tennessee | private schools, school choice, vouchers | States, South, Tennessee

Nearly 2,200 families completed forms by this week’s deadline to indicate interest in participating in Tennessee’s private school voucher program in Memphis and Nashville.

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