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Education Reform Opinion
MALKUS and CUMMINGS: Make-Up Courses Can Lead to Made-Up Graduation Rates
Expectations for academic progress in America’s public high schools keep increasing despite the fact that high-school test scores have been…
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Education Reform Opinion
FLANDERS: More Regulation of School Choice a Mistake
Calls for more regulation of Wisconsin’s school choice programs have been getting louder. Making the claims that performance isn’t consistent…
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Florida
Florida Teacher: School Fired Me for Giving Students a Zero for Work They Didn’t Do
Should students get half credit for an assignment they didn’t even turn in? A former St. Lucie County teacher doesn’t…
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Newswire
Maryland State Board Votes to Allow Non-Educators to Become Superintendents
The new regulation passed despite significant protest by educators across the state, including the association representing local school boards.
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Education Reports
TNTP: The Opportunity Myth
Students are planning their futures on the belief that doing well in school creates opportunities -- that showing up, doing…
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Education Reform Opinion
FRANK: Black Charter Schools Caught in Political Crossfire
There is an anti-charter school movement that is sweeping the US like an uncontrollable wide-fire. Black students, once again, are…
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Alabama
PESHEK: In Defense of the Alabama Accountability Act
If participation is a sign of success, then the program has met that goal. More than 4,000 students are participating…
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Education Reform Opinion
WHITE: Five Charter Schools Making Waves for Their Take on the Vocational Model
Some CTE schools focus primarily on specialized career fields while other schools fuse their core curriculum with real world experiences…
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New Mexico
Albuquerque District’s New School Shooter Strategy to Involve a Proactive Approach
Although Albuquerque Public Schools Chief Operations Officer Scott Elder offered assurances Monday that district schools are safe, he also noted…
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Newswire
State Still Waiting for Nashville District to Report Nearly a Dozen Cases of Teacher Misconduct
In one case at Una Elementary School, a teacher broke a student's clavicle. In another, an Antioch High School teacher…
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Florida
Mom of Teen Girl Suspended for Wearing Ripped Jeans Accuses High School of Sexism
Melissa McKinlay took to Facebook to express her frustration after her daughter received a dress code violation for wearing ripped…
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Must-Reads
Study Finds Less Than a Fifth of Assignments Given to Students Are at Grade Level
Low-income students, English learners, students of color and those with disabilities are far less likely to be given the chance…
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Massachusetts
Chinese Educators Visit KIPP Charter with Goal of Bringing Teaching Methods Back to Their Country
The 24 Chinese educators, known as teacher trainers, will spend the week touring different types of schools in the metro…
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California
First-Grade Textbook Hails Current Candidate for CA Governor as ‘Champion’ of Gay Rights
The textbook, being tested in the Elk Grove Unified School District, refers to then-San Francisco mayor Newsom’s 2004 decision to…
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Colorado
Colorado District to Pay $11.5 Million to Students Sexually Assaulted by Teacher
The settlement was split evenly five ways, said Abbe Smith, a spokeswoman for the Cherry Creek School District. Each victim…
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Must-Reads
Study: Girls ‘Significantly’ Better Than Boys at Reading, Writing
A new study finds that girls perform significantly better than boys in the U.S. on standardized tests of reading and…
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New York
Group Representing Local School Board Calls for Limits on NYC Mayor’s Power over Schools
A group representing the city’s influential local school boards has come out against Mayor de Blasio’s control of the public…
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Michigan
Analysis: 42% of MI Districts Experienced a Net Increase in Enrollment through Choice Programs
One of four Michigan public school students are not enrolled their home district because the children attend a charter school…
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California
‘Parasites That Want to Destroy the Host’: Tensions High at L.A. Campus Shared by District and Charter Schools
Don’t trust Excelencia Charter Academy — that was the clear message, which the new charter’s supporters saw as nothing less…
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Newswire
Charter School for Kids with Dyslexia Opens in South Carolina, Only the Fifth of Its Kind in the Nation
Lakes and Bridges Charter School is one of only five free public schools in the nation for students with dyslexia…
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Newswire
Nashville Board Chair: Not Ruling Out School Closures to Address Poor Performance
Nashville's share of the state's lowest performing "priority schools" has grown sharply. Six Metro Nashville Public Schools sites fell in…
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Newswire
Ohio Families Affected by Closure of Online School: Feels Like State ‘Kicked My Children to the Curb’
“I never received a phone call," Aquino says. "I never received a letter saying ‘How are you doing? What’s going…
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Must-Reads
New Republic Magazine: Asian American Perspectives on Racial Quotas for Magnet Schools
A proposal to integrate New York City’s top public high schools would be a boon to black and Latinx students—and…
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Florida
Lawsuit over Teacher Bonus Program in Florida Heads to Mediation
A year-old case contending Florida's "Best and Brightest" teacher bonus program discriminates against educators of a certain age or race…
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Idaho
Nearly 11,000 Names on Waitlists for Charter Schools in Idaho
Charter schools are growing in Idaho, but they aren’t meeting the state’s demand. Waitlists now have the names of nearly…
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