Red for Ed Action Day INDIANAPOLIS – More than 15,000 people were expected to flood downtown Indianapolis on Tuesday for what could be the largest Indiana Statehouse rally in more than 20 years. The Red for Ed Action Day, organized by the Indiana State Teachers Association and other labor groups, was expected to include educators from every…
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Detroit Students Fight for the Right to Literacy
By Kristiana Bolzman November 12, 2019 A 2016 lawsuit re-emerged last month that, if successful, could be the first to codify a fundamental right to literacy. But proponents ignore the possibility that competition within education may be a more effective solution to the challenges students face. The lawsuit began in 2016, when several Detroit students sued the State…
Are Minnetonka Public Schools secretly monitoring students’ social media posts?
By Greta Kaul | 11/07/2019 MinnPost photo by Tony Nelson Minnetonka Public Schools Superintendent Dennis Peterson signed a three-year contract, at $23,500 annually, with a company that pledged to alert the district to “threats shared publicly.” In the summer of 2017, Minnetonka Public Schools Superintendent Dennis Peterson attended a conference in Baltimore put on by the Education Research and Development…
CPS plan to make up days lost to teachers strike would cut into Thanksgiving, winter and summer breaks; teachers union criticizes proposal
By HANNAH LEONE NOV 05, 2019 Third graders wait in line for their teacher at Roswell Mason elementary school Friday as classes resume following an 11-day teachers strike. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune) A plan by Chicago Public Schools to shorten school holidays to make up days lost to the teachers strike has been met with…
How the teachers strikes gave Democrats a win in deep red Kentucky
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin made some powerful enemies. By Alexia Fernández Campbell Nov 6, 2019 Kentucky Public school teachers rally at the Kentucky State Capitol to pressure lawmakers to override Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s veto of the state’s tax and budget bills on April 13, 2018 in Frankfort, Kentucky. Getty Images Andy Beshear just flipped Kentucky’s governor’s…
School Shopping Demands More Than Looking At Grades, Families Say
By ANN DOSS HELMS • NOV 1, 2019 Billingsville Elementary, which has an IB magnet program, is a racially and economically diverse school with a C grade. ANN DOSS HELMS / WFAE As the 2020 school shopping season begins, narrowing the list can seem easy. A quick internet search will yield ratings from services such as Niche and GreatSchools, and North Carolina…
More schools received A and B letter grades from the state. Check how your school did
Lily Altavena, Nov. 1, 2019 Students at Arizona College Prep in Chandler are shown on Sept. 26, 2019. (Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic) More schools this year received A and B letter grades from the state and fewer received D grades, according to data released Thursday by the Arizona State Board of Education. The grades, based on spring 2019 test data,…
Were public schools better way back when? Giving today’s schools an honest grade.
By Valerie Strauss November 5, 2019 Surely you’ve heard it before: Public schools today are a mess, far worse than they used to be. Kids used to learn a lot more than they do now. When exactly that was remains unclear, but people like to say it anyway. To be sure, there are many troubled public…
‘When We Fight, We Win’: Chicago Teachers Score Another Victory for Public Education
And they organized a new generation of teachers in the process. By Alan Maass NOVEMBER 4, 2019 Teachers and school workers march through Hyde Park on October 21. (Alan Maass) Ready To Fight Back? The slogan on the banner that led many of the marches during last week’s Chicago teachers strike told the story: “When we…
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…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 