West Virginia teachers, students and supporters hold signs on a Morgantown street as they continue their strike on March 2, 2018. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By: Emmarie Huetteman June 18, 2018 As teacher strikes flared this spring in more than half a dozen states, from West Virginia to Arizona, protesters bemoaned stagnant salaries, overcrowded classrooms and…
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Florida Influencers rank inequality and education as most pressing 2018 election issue
BY ADAM WOLLNER June 18, 2018 05:00 AM Updated 2 hours 55 minutes ago The yawning gap between rich and poor and lack of quality education for all are the most pressing issues facing Florida — and together they represent the top issue candidates should be discussing this election year, according to a new Miami…
Lawmakers Shelve Bill To Merge Education, Workforce Departments Into ‘Mega-Agency
By KAREN KASLER June 18, 2018 The controversial proposal to merge K-12, higher education and workforce development into one big cabinet level state agency won’t go forward any time soon. The plan was backed by some Republican lawmakers and Gov. John Kasich, but had lots of opposition. The bill would bring the departments of Education, Higher…
Gainful-Employment Disclosures Delayed Again
Education Department announces a second yearlong delay of some gainful-employment disclosures as DeVos works on a do-over of the vocational education rule. By Paul Fain June 18, 2018 The federal government will not require colleges to publicly disclose data about their vocational programs’ graduate employment rates or debt levels — requirements under the Obama-era “gainful-employment” rule…
Public education funding in California is anything but progressive
BY TY ALPER AND JUDY APPEL JUNE 7, 2018 We Californians can be pretty smug about holding true to our progressive values in the face of attacks from the president. We tout, among other things, our sanctuary cities, our commitment to environmental regulation and the taxation and regulation of legal cannabis – and candidates for statewide office are…
How Washington D.C.’s public schools went from success story to cautionary tale
Winston Clarke, the father of a Duke Ellington High School junior, speaks during a May 23, 2018, news conference in front of the school in Washington. Parents at the prestigious performing arts public school are in a fight with the office of the school superintendent, which charges that dozens of Ellington families have faked District…
DC’s public schools go from success story to cautionary tale
June 18, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — As recently as a year ago, the public school system in the nation’s capital was being hailed as a shining example of successful urban education reform and a template for districts across the country. Now the situation in the District of Columbia could not be more different. After a…
Melrose teachers continue calls for fair evaluations
By Conor Powers-Smith Posted Jun 1, 2018 at 4:01 PM For the third Friday in a row, Melrose teachers demonstrated solidarity with recently released colleagues on June 1 by gathering outside schools across the city in union t-shirts before heading in for the start of classes. “The standouts or the walk-ins or however you want to characterize them are really just…
In Key Governor’s Races, Like In Colorado, Dems Split On Education
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUN 4, 2018 A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries, even as red-meat issues like guns, inequality and President Donald Trump have dominated the races. In California, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s…
Teacher Evaluation Is Stuck in the Past
Race to the Top is over. Why haven’t we moved on? By Rachael E. Gabriel & Sarah L. Woulfin May 15, 2018 When President Barack Obama announced his Race to the Top competition in the summer of 2009, states across the country submitted plans for reforming standards, data use, and teacher quality to turn around their…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 