By Kalyn Belsha | January 13, 2017 Key Elementary School, a sandy-colored brick building on a tree-lined street on Chicago’s West Side, sits empty now. Several windows near its entrance are boarded up, giving the school’s façade the look of a smile that is missing front teeth. The school is in a busy, historic section of the Austin…
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Private schools, poised to grow in Illinois, move into closed Chicago public schools
By Kalyn Belsha | 3 hours ago Photo by José Alejandro Córcoles The Field School, a small private Christian school currently housed at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, bought Key Elementary on the West Side for $125,000 as their new location. The district sold the shuttered school to them for $50,000 less than they originally bid since…
States are favoring school choice at a steep cost to public education
By The Associated Press April 24, 2018 6:52 am (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Teacher strikes are generating a healthy focus on how far public education funding has fallen over the past decade. The full explanation, however,…
Computer glitches interrupt standardized testing in states across the country
Teacher Chandni Langford wrote inspirational messages on her fifth-graders’ desks Monday before they started four days of standardized tests in Woodbury, N.J. (Crystal Ramirez/Associated Press) By Valerie Strauss April 19 at 6:00 AM In Tennessee, an attack on a software vendor interrupted standardized testing this week and may have also caused delays in Mississippi. In Ohio, computers crashed statewide…
School Board clears new charter school in Martin County, but not without some hesitancy
Andrew Atterbury, Andrew.Atterbury@TCPalm.comPublished 4:29 p.m. ET April 18, 2018 Florida Voices is a project of the USA TODAY Network-Florida that spotlights the 2018 election issues that matter to Floridians. LEAH VOSS/TCPALMLeah Voss and Leah Voss and Leah Voss and Leah Voss, Treasure Coast MARTIN COUNTY — A new “classical” charter school is set to open next…
A closer look at the future of charter schools in Kentucky
By Emilie Arroyo | Posted: Wed 5:06 PM, Apr 18, 2018 | LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The Kentucky Board of Education is taking a new direction after the resignation of education commissioner Dr. Stephen Pruitt and Gov. Matt Bevin’s appointments of new board members this week. Many expect that direction to be a stronger push for charter schools, but Kentucky’s…
Letting state approve ‘new kinds’ of public schools would enhance education for the next generation
In 2011, Children wait to shake hands with Florida Gov. Rick Scott during his visit to the Florida International Academy charter school in Opa-locka. Joe Raedle Getty Images April 18, 2018 06:45 PM The Florida Constitution Revision Commission had a profound responsibility: We had to legislate for the next generation. We worked to adapt a document drafted…
Parents flood Baltimore school board meeting to protest freezing classrooms
CASEY QUINLANJAN 9, 2018, 8:07 PM The Baltimore City Public Schools Board Meeting on Tuesday was packed with people who wanted to voice their concerns about the frigid classroom temperatures many students were forced to endure last week, along with a host of other complaints about the condition of their schools. Community advocates and activists encouraged…
3 HUNTSVILLE SCHOOLS ‘FAILING’ ACCORDING TO THE ALABAMA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Posted: Jan. 24, 2018 6:44 PM Updated: Jan. 24, 2018 10:39 PM Posted By: Travis Leder Three Huntsville schools are listed as “failing” in the 2018 Alabama Accountability Act list. The Alabama Accountability Act deems schools in the lowest six percent as “failing” based on reading and math scores. The only three Tennessee Valley schools…
Consistently failing schools are in danger of closing
Megan Cruz ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Updated: 7:31 PM MST Dec 5, 2017 The New Mexico Public Education Department said four consistently failing schools could close by the end of next year. The schools are Dulce Elementary School, in Dulce, and Los Padillas, Hawthorne and Whittier elementary schools, all in Albuquerque. The Public Education Department said…
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