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5 New North Carolina Charter Schools OK’d to Open in 2022. Why Wake Officials Tried to Block One.
Five new North Carolina charter schools were approved Thursday to open in 2022, including a school that had been opposed…
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Salt Lake City Is Going to Start Classes an Hour Later So High Schoolers Can Sleep In
Salt Lake City high schoolers can plan on hitting “snooze” a few extra times in the morning starting this fall.
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Brooklyn Teacher Cuffed for Alleged Rape of Underage Ex-Girlfriend
Sergio Garcia, 26, was picked up on April 7 following an investigation by the 77th Precinct and the NYPD Special…
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Federal Education News
Biden’s Proposed Budget Would Increase Education Spending by More Than 40%
Overall, the president’s request would raise the budget for the federal education department by $29.8 billion, or just over 40%.
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Education Reform Opinion
KAHAPEA: More Teachers Need to Know That They Can Leave Their Unions
Though the AFT presents itself as an advocate for the reopening of schools, the organization and its local affiliates have…
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Education Reform Opinion
MARKOWICZ: Teachers Are Vaxxed, the Science Is Clear: Stop Abusing Our Children and Open the Schools
Those of us unlucky enough to live in places with powerful teachers unions and, more importantly, weak leadership, have heard…
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Education Reform Opinion
ELBAUM: A Teachers Union Boss’ Borderline Anti-Semitic Case for School Closings
Randi Weingarten leads the nation’s second-largest teachers union — which is alarming, since her recent remarks show her thinking on…
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Nevada
Las Vegas-Area Parent Coalitions Push for School Choice, Demand District Break Up
A coalition of parent groups advocated for the Clark County School District to break up, saying it’s too big.
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Education Reform Opinion
ALLEN: A New Report by the Florida League of Women Voters Claims Educational Diversity Is the Wrong Road in Education
An ideological report about the most successful of education scholarship programs in the state and a national model demands not…
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New York
New York Lawmakers Slammed for Blocking Charter Schools Expansion in Budget
The chief state official who authorizes charter schools blasted Albany lawmakers for refusing to lift the cap to open more…
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Mississippi
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Block Lawsuit Claiming Mississippi Allows Grave Disparities in Education Funding
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will not get involved, for now, in a lawsuit that says Mississippi allows…
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Federal Education News
Cardona’s Decision to Grant DC Testing Waiver Draws Ire of Education Officials in Other States
The education secretary’s decision cites the staggering number of students who are still learning fully remote. But it comes after…
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Arkansas
Arkansas House Advances Bill to Let Schools Teach Creationism
A bill to allow public schools to teach intelligent design as a theory of how the Earth came to be…
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Oregon
Oregon District Pauses Tradition of Police Greeting Students on First Day Due to ‘Extra Anxiety’ It Creates
Albany public school students will no longer be greeted by police officers on the first day of school after some…
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National Education News
The Pandemic’s Terrible Toll on Kids
A year of school shutdowns and family trauma leads to social isolation, stress and mental-health issues
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Texas
Texas Parents Clash Over LGBTQ Books in School Libraries
Books including transgender, gender identity and other LGBTQ topics were added to the district’s library catalog, sparking heated debate among…
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Louisiana
90% of Louisiana School Districts Want to Pause Letter Grades, ‘Show Grace’ in Pandemic
Amid rising concerns, officials in 90% of public school districts in Louisiana oppose the issuance of school letter grades because…
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Alabama
Three Alabama Educators Plead Guilty in Scheme to Inflate the Enrollments of Districts Through Virtual School Options
Three men embroiled in a virtual schools fraud scheme now have pleaded guilty to federal charges.
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New York
Kindergarten Applications Are Down 12% in NYC
In another sign of how deeply the coronavirus pandemic has rocked the nation’s largest school system, kindergarten applications in New…
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National Education News
Anti-Testing Advocates Say Measuring Pandemic Learning Loss Could Stigmatize an Entire Generation
Studies continue to show that amid the school closures and economic and health hardships of the past year, many young…
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Arizona
Lost Students in Arizona Schools Lead to Teacher Layoffs, Partisan Accusations
News of teacher layoffs at one of Arizona’s largest public school districts has the state’s elected officials pointing fingers over…
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Kansas
School Choice Proposal Hits Snag in Kansas Senate
A bill that ties public school funding to the proposal failed Thursday night in the GOP-controlled Senate on a 19-19…
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Illinois
Chicago High School Reopening Agreement Remains Elusive
The teachers union has scheduled a meeting of its House of Delegates for Sunday, the day before thousands of teachers…
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Education Reform Opinion
ANDREWS: The Other Problem With Woke Schooling: It’s Psychological Child Abuse
Sadly, today’s woke curricula do far more to erode a child’s sense of intrinsic worth than to build it up.
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Police Charge Former West Virginia Teacher After Discovering Thousands of Child Pornography Videos and Images on His Social Media
Randy McKinley, 57, was charged with distribution or exhibition of sexually explicit material involving minors, WDTV reported Tuesday. McKinley was…
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