November 5, 2019 Alabama school officials released the “failing” public schools list on Nov. 1, 2019. By Trisha Powell Crain On the eighth annual list of “failing” Alabama schools, released Friday morning, all but 10 of the 75 public schools on the list were making a repeat appearance. Fifty-two of the schools made the list last year, too. And…
Category: Every Student Succeeds Act
Segregation in Pennsylvania schools: How a ZIP code determines the quality of a child’s education
By JACQUELINE PALOCHKO, SARAH M. WOJCIK and MICHELLE MERLIN THE MORNING CALL | OCT 31, 2019 Lehigh Valley school funding Fawlco Ramos, 13, a seventh-grade student at Salisbury Middle School, takes a seat in the hallway and uses a laptop to do classwork. The Lehigh Valley’s schools vary from wealthy to poor, with some having the newest tech, while…
Here’s how much each Alabama school spent on students
Spending in Alabama’s public schools By Trisha Powell Crain August 9, 2019 As the result of a new requirement under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, the public is getting a close look at how much money public schools—not just districts—spent educating Alabama’s children. And those numbers, from the 2017-18 school year, are all over the…
Why Rhode Island’s Governor Is Taking Over Providence’s Public Schools
The city’s schools have been failing for decades. The state believes it can fix them by stepping in. ADAM HARRIS OCT 29, 2019 “We have to go big here. These kids have been left behind too far for too long,” Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo said in an interview.PAUL MORIGI / STRINGER / GETTY Public…
Are Brian Kemp’s listening sessions with teachers more than lip service?
By Maureen Downey 10-28-19 You can’t fix public schools while promoting increased options for families to flee them Brian Kemp arrived in the governor’s office 10 months ago with no history as an education advocate. In his first year in office, he wooed teachers with a pay raise, but dismayed public education supporters with his embrace…
School starts today for some Milwaukee Public School students
Keith Schubert, August 12, 2019 Some Milwaukee Public School students are headed back to school today, the third year of the district’s early-start calendar. Forty-three out of 160 MPS schools, including all high schools, start Monday. A first-day back celebration will take place at Golda Meir School from 7:15 to 9 a.m., MPS said in a…
New teacher survey shows many educators report feeling satisfied in their job — but undervalued by their community
Mark Keierleber | June 26, 2019 Teachers in the Univted State work long hours and feel undervalued by the public-but like their jobs anyway! Those findings, from an international education survey released this month, offer fodder for all sides of a debate about teacher pay and working conditions that is mobilizing teachers to protest across the country….
Teachers quit in Florida, citing ‘toxic’ conditions and a ‘testing nightmare’
(iStock) (Michael Quirk/iStock) By Valerie Strauss June 5, 2019 Florida has a serious teacher shortage. During this school year, there were more than 2,200 vacancies at one point or another. Why? In a recent post, Fed Ingram, Miami-Dade County teacher of the year in 2006 and now president of the Florida Education Association cited several reasons,…
Illinois teachers get new minimum base salary
By Michael Urbanec 8:26 pm The Times files A new minimum salary for Illinois teachers passed through the House and Senate around the same time lawmakers worked on recreational marijuana legalization and a gambling expansion. The bill is aimed at addressing the state’s teacher shortage. The new legislation sets the salary floor at $40,000 for public…
Bipartisan bill to build Minnesota’s ranks of teachers of color sputtered
By Faiza Mahamud JUNE 9, 2019 GLEN STUBBE – STAR TRIBUNE Rep. Jim Davnie, co-author of the bill, said less than half of the $3 million from the $543 million in education spending went to the effort to boost the number of teachers of color. Minnesota is increasing spending to hire and retain teachers of color…
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