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Education Reform Opinion
RICHWINE and BIGGS: The ‘Underpaid Teachers’ Myth
In the real world, employees are paid not only for the number of years they sat in a classroom, but…
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Federal Education News
Principals Association Praises New Bill to Raise Smoking Age to 21 as Vaping Increases in Schools
The National Association of Secondary School Principals is backing a bipartisan push led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to…
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California
Teachers March through the Capital as CA Lawmakers Advance Union-Backed Bill to Stunt the Growth of Charters
The bills aim to slow the growth of charters, whose enrollment totals have increased as those of traditional public schools…
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Newswire
Bill to Curb 4-Day School Weeks Sent to Oklahoma Governor
The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a bill that would make it harder for school districts to…
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Louisiana
CREDO: New Orleans Continues to Outpace the State in Student Growth Scores for Both Reading and Math
A new report by the Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) focused on student growth scores reveals that…
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California
California Considers Overhauling Test for Prospective Reading Teachers Due to High Failure Rate
California is considering overhauling a test intended to measure whether prospective teachers are prepared to be effective reading instructors.
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Missouri
Crowd Boos at Missouri School Board Meeting over Proposed Racial Equity and ‘Cultural Competency’ Training
Lee’s Summit school Superintendent Dennis Carpenter, with force, pushed his chair back from the dais, planted his feet hard on…
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Federal Education News
U.S. House Republicans Blast Democrats for Stripping Provisions Supporting Homeschoolers from Bill
The House is expected to pass a measure Thursday that some Republican lawmakers are grumbling was gutted of provisions supporting…
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Mississippi
Thousands of Mississippi 3rd Graders Could Be Held Back after 1 in 4 Fail Reading Test
Just shy of 9,000 students flunked the reading exam statewide.
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National Education News
Bernie Sanders Releases New Video: DeVos Is ‘the Worst Secretary of Education in the Modern History of Our Country’
My message to Betsy DeVos: when we're in the White House not only will you no longer be our Education…
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Illinois
Chicago’s New Mayor Moves to Disband Appointed School Board, Switch to Elected One
Chicago’s new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, said Wednesday she is disbanding the city’s seven-member school board, moving quickly to set up…
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Must-Reads
NYC Ed Department’s Anti-Bias Training: Individualism and Objectivity Are Hallmarks of ‘White Supremacy Culture’
City Department of Education brass are targeting a “white-supremacy culture” among school administrators — by disparaging ideas like “individualism,” “objectivity”…
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California
Analysis: Charter Schools Do Not Cause District Financial Problems in California
Charter schools have become a popular scapegoat for financial problems facing districts across California. In fact, the state assembly is…
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Newswire
Utah District Says Personalized Learning Boosted Its Graduation Rate from 78 to 97 Percent
The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. For the last three years…
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New York
‘Shouting Matches Erupted’ at Long Island NY School Board Meeting after 69% of Voters Reject Budget
At Wednesday night board meeting, the superintendent said the district's next step after voters rejected the proposed budget will be…
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire Delegates Will Not Attend National NEA Convention, Citing Anti-Immigrant and LGBTQ Policies in Texas
Convention non-attendance as a form of protest could get very tricky, very quickly for NEA.
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Newswire
Charleston SC School Board Spends $33K to Rent Space on Six Highway Billboards to Thank Teachers
For $33,650 — the price of a half-million No. 2 pencils — the Charleston County School District is broadcasting its…
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Chancellor Richard Carranza Says Changes to NYC’s School Discipline Manual Are Coming Soon
Chancellor Richard Carranza is poised to unveil the results of his overhaul of school discipline policies — and the changes…
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Education Reform Opinion
STEWART: Curbing Charter School Growth Robs Black and Brown Students of Options
Black leaders across America should be paying attention to the educational assault on people of color under way in the…
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Education Reform Opinion
COHEN: Environmental Indoctrination in Our Schools
Ever wonder why kids come home from school often sounding as if they had received woefully inadequate instruction in everything…
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Arizona
BUTCHER: This Arizona Policy Change Is Robbing Navajo Kids of School Opportunity
Three thousand and one hundred feet. That’s the distance between Hilltop Christian School in New Mexico and the Arizona border—but…
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Education Reform Opinion
CLAYPOOL: Alternative Education Key to Boosting Graduation Rates
I fear a high school diploma is becoming an illusion for hundreds of thousands of students as the process to…
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California
ELLIOT: Imagining Los Angeles without Charter Schools
What would public education look like, and how would the system have impacted a generation of Los Angeles students?
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Georgia
Violence against Georgia Teachers often Underreported, Advocates Say
Threats and violence on a smaller scale, against teachers, often go underreported, misreported or completely ignored, school experts said.
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California
CA Teachers Union to Rally at the Capitol to Demand Student Loan Assistance for Teachers, Charter School Caps
Within the Sacramento City Unified School District, teachers have called off a strike that was previously scheduled for today, and…
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