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…
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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…
Proposal to arm school personnel gets backlash at Brevard County meeting
Monique Valdes , Ken Tyndall Updated: Apr 18, 2018 – 12:34 AM BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The Brevard County School Board got an earful Tuesday night from people opposed to arming school personnel on campuses. Dozens of people spoke out at a meeting against the so-called Sheriff Trained Onsite Marshal Program, or STOMP. The idea came about…
‘Students aren’t quitting’: Thousands plan walkouts to protest gun violence, mark 19 years since Columbine
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 8:00 a.m. ET April 18, 2018 Students at thousands of schools across the nation are planning to stage walkouts Friday to mark the 19th year since the Columbine High School massacre, an attack that marked a new era of gun violence. More than 2,300 events are planned for the National School Walkout,…
Teachers protest Clark County district’s decision to fight pay raises
By Amelia Pak-Harvey / Las Vegas Review-Journal April 17, 2018 – 9:42 am Shadow Ridge High School educators protested against pay freezes before school on Tuesday morning, matching the spirit of teacher protests in other states while working around Nevada’s anti-strike law. Roughly a dozen educators and a few students gathered at a…
Colorado teachers stage rally at statehouse to lobby for higher pay
By NOELLE PHILLIPS and JESSE PAUL | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 16, 2018 at 10:25 am | UPDATED: April 16, 2018 at 6:04 pm All classes in Englewood were canceled Monday after more than 150 teachers in that district announced plans to walk out of classes Chanting “You left me no choice, I have to use my teacher voice!” hundreds of Colorado…
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