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…
Category: Funding For Education
Here’s a low-cost strategy that could help address teacher shortages
BY DAN GOLDHABER AND CYRUS GROUT, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 06/18/18 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL Concerns about teacher shortages are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape. While there aren’t shortages across the board, states are clearly hurting when it comes to hiring in some subject…
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…
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 The State’s ‘Grand’ Education Bargain Came To Be — And How It Comes Up Short
June 18, 2018 Max Larkin Carrie Jung Working in a Brockton elementary school, Kathleen Smith tried to hold the attention of large classes — as many as 35 grade-schoolers in one big room. And conditions were deteriorating. At Brockton High School, she remembered, “you truly had kids that would come in and sit on the radiators,” she said….
Department of Education donations are plummeting under de Blasio
By Bruce Golding June 18, 2018 Donations to the Department of Education’s official charity are down more than 50 percent on Mayor de Blasio’s watch — and recently generated the smallest grant to city schools in more than a decade, The Post has learned. The steady drop in annual contributions to the Fund for Public Schools…
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…
Education splits gubernatorial races in California, New York
June 4, 2018, 9:25 AM 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 campaign has been…
Students have their own ideas about standardized tests
Highschoolers weigh in on controversy about tests and teacher evaluations By Rick Karlin Updated 5:28 pm, Thursday, May 31, 2018 Albany Lawmakers, activists and teachers have been fighting for years over the role that student test scores should play when it comes to evaluating teacher performance. The fight continues this month as legislators wrangle over a bill…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 