By Jeffrey Solochek Published: April 20, 2018 STUDENT PROTESTS: Aiming to keep their gun control and school safety message alive, high school students around the Tampa Bay area and Florida will hold another class walkout in memory of the 1999 Columbine shooting. “After Parkland, I’ve felt so much more empowered than I’ve ever felt before,” St. Petersburg High student Taylor Redington…
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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…
Study shows charter school performance debunking DeVos critics
BY BEN DEGROW, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/18/18 10:15 AM EDT 263 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL There is good news about the progress of the nation’s schools, though the secretary of education’s opponents may not want to see it. The results deliver a deep blow to their…
Kentucky Education Commissioner Dr. Stephen Pruitt resigns
By WKYT News Staff | Posted: Tue 5:15 PM, Apr 17, 2018 | Updated: Tue 10:37 PM, Apr 17, 2018 FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – Dr. Stephen Pruitt has resigned as Kentucky education commissioner. The board agreed to accept Pruitt’s resignation, even though he had the ability to complete his term as there were no grounds for termination. The board held a lengthy…
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…
CMS fact check: Superintendent said 50 percent of charter schools fail. Was he right?
Charlotte’s StudentFirst Academy charter school closed in 2014, the first of three Charlotte charters that collapsed within their first year after the state lifted its 100-school cap. Davie Hinshaw Observer file photo BY ANN DOSS HELMS April 18, 2018 01:42 PM Updated April 18, 2018 01:42 PM At a meeting to discuss whether Matthews town officials should pursue…
Big spending turns California’s race for governor into a proxy war between teachers unions, charter school backers
Netflix co-founder and Chief Executive Reed Hastings last week donated $7 million to bolster the financially struggling gubernatorial bid of former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg) By GEORGE SKELTON APR 19, 2018 | 12:05 AM | SACRAMENTO For most of us, the notion of someone spending $7 million to help another person run for governor…
Teachers protest funding gap, some PERA changes at Capitol
About 400 educators, many from Englewood, voiced opinion on public-pension system and school funding Ellis Arnold earnold@coloradocommunitymedia.com Performances of teachers singing a 1980s rock hit in protest have swept the nation — from Oklahoma to West Virginia to Kentucky — and now, the show came to Colorado. “We’re not gonna take it — no, we…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 