The study is the first in-depth analysis of student performance for the state’s young charter school network, which was granted more stable legal footing by a state Supreme Court ruling in 2018. By Dahlia Bazzaz January 9, 2019 In a report released Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University took on a question that Washington’s state auditors could not:…
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Mayoral candidate Bill Daley proposes massive CPS overhaul, cutting school councils from more than 500 to 60
By: Juan Perez Jr. January 10, 2019 Mayoral candidate Bill Daley called for a series of complex overhauls to Chicago Public Schools this week, as he advanced a government-shrinking policy agenda that included plans to slash the City Council’s ranks and constrict its remaining members’ power. On Thursday, the former U.S. commerce secretary and heir to a Chicago political dynasty…
Audit: Many Problems At PPS, Oregon Department Of Education
by Rob Manning Follow OPB Jan. 9, 2019 Portland, Ore. UPDATE (11:24 a.m. PT) — State auditors released a blistering review of Oregon’s education department and its largest school district Wednesday, recommending that legislators take a hard look at how administrators spend existing money as they consider significant new educational investments sought by Gov. Kate Brown. Auditors working for Secretary of…
Thousands of Los Angeles teachers are about to go on strike. What will happen to 600,000 students?
Los Angeles teachers rallied December 15 to demand more school staffing, smaller class sizes and higher salaries. If no resolution is reached by Thursday, teachers will go on strike. By Holly Yan, CNN January 8, 2019 The country’s second-biggest school district could see a mass exodus of teachers Thursday when the Los Angeles teachers’ union goes…
SC teachers’ patience waning as lawmakers again pledge to fix public education
BY MAAYAN SCHECHTER AND TOM BARTON January 06, 2019 COLUMBIA, SC Two days before S.C. lawmakers return to Columbia with an unprecedented desire to overhaul the state’s public education system, there is no consensus on how to stop the ongoing teacher shortage and fix the state’s K-12 education woes. Influential S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas,…
Florida Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s system of public education
BY JIM SAUNDERS JANUARY 04, 2019 TALLAHASSEE A fiercely divided Florida Supreme Court on Friday rejected a nearly decade-long lawsuit that challenged whether the state has properly carried out a 1998 constitutional amendment that called for ensuring a “high quality” system of public schools. The decision upheld lower-court rulings and focused heavily on…
Harsh critic turned public education advocate to speak at CenturyLink Center
Jan 7, 2019 BOSSIER PARISH, LA) – What do blueberries have to do with public education? Everything, as respected businessman and attorney Jamie Vollmer learned after being taken to task by a teacher after he vocally condemned public schools. Once a harsh critic, Vollmer is now an award-winning champion of public education and author of…
Brevard teachers union halts raise negotiations, calling district’s offers ‘laughable’
Following months of negotiations, the Brevard County school district and the teachers union are at a standstill over teacher raises after the union called impasse this week. District negotiators and union leaders have made little progress since starting bargaining talks nearly six months ago, and despite millions of dollars in budget savings are struggling to find money for salaries….
Los Angeles Teachers Prepare to Strike
Esther Wang December 20, 2018 This year saw a wave of teacher strikes, from West Virginia to Oklahomaand Arizona. Now, educators in Los Angeles, who work in the second-largest school district in the country, have announced that unless the district meets their demands for, among other things, a salary increase and additional hires, they will go on strike on January 10. As Jacobin noted, “The…
Trump school safety group backs off his call to arm trained teachers
Trump created the school safety commission and asked Betsy DeVos to chair it following the February shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images By KIMBERLY HEFLING December 19, 2018 A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings…
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