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CENTER ON REINVENTING PUBLIC EDUCATION: Strategies for Nimble Cities: Lessons from Stepping Up, Our 18-City Project
For the past two years my CRPE colleagues and I have tracked education strategies to help policymakers, system leaders, and…
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Massachusetts
MA Districts Rally Behind Governor’s Proposal to Give Them $72M in New School Safety Spending
Bay State superintendents and local police chiefs rallied yesterday behind a proposal from Gov. Charlie Baker’s office to dedicate $72…
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New Hampshire Charter School May Double Enrollment in Second Year
Next week will mark the beginning of a new school year in classrooms across the Monadnock Region — and for…
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Newly Appointed New Jersey Ed Chief Discusses Where K-12 Education Is Headed
How will Lamont Repollet, New Jersey's newly sworn commissioner of education, seek to change the state's educational landscape?
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South Jersey School Officials Talk District Consolidation after Sweeney Report
Nestled within the Pinelands in the Dorothy section of Weymouth Township is one school that is home to 150 students…
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Connecticut Magnet School Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Student
Brian Marshall. 28, of Meriden, has been charged with second- and fourth-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a…
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Former NC High School Teacher Arrested on Sex Crime Charges
Jason Dellinger, 30, was arrested and also bonded out of jail on Monday. According to investigators, the Mooresville man was…
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Newswire
Texas Governor Says the Best Teachers Should Make Six Figure Salaries
Just as millions of Texas students were beginning their new school year on Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott made news by…
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New Mexico
Santa Fe Superintendent Accuses NM Education Department of Retaliation
Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Veronica Garcia said she believes the state education department is retaliating against her – and…
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Education Reports
EDUCATION NEXT: 2018 EdNextPoll
The status of public opinion on these and other topics comprises the 12th annual Education Next (EdNext) survey of public…
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National Education News
Politifact: U.S. at Top of Per Pupil Spending, But Below World Average on PISA Math Score
The United States spends big on education. But what is the return on that investment compared with the rest of…
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Minnesota
With One-Third of Minneapolis Students Failing to Graduate On Time, District Makes Case for $30M in New Taxes
Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff on Monday laid out an ambitious vision for the school district and his pitch…
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National Education News
Freed Mexico Teachers Union Boss Attacks Education Reforms
Long accused by critics of corruption, Elba Esther Gordillo was a powerful force in Mexican politics before her arrest in…
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Education Reform Opinion
NEW YORK POST: Even When NYC Ed Chief Has a Point, He Misses the Real Issue
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza isn’t wrong to question the use of a single test of 4- and 5-year-olds for entry…
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Must-Reads
National Poll of Public Opinion on Education: Support Increases for Charter Schools and Vouchers
Support for charter schools and private school voucher programs has gone up over the past year, with Republicans accounting for…
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California
Potential Candidates Lining Up to Fill Empty Los Angeles School Board Seat
The Los Angeles school board has yet to set a special election date to fill the seat of Ref Rodriguez,…
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Georgia
‘Teacher of the Year’ Arrested after Allegedly Throwing a Stool at Georgia Student
According to the arrest warrant obtained by Channel 2 Action News, Simmons was sitting down during hall duty when a…
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Must-Reads
Study: 1 in 3 High School Seniors Have Not Read a Book for Pleasure in Past Year, While 82% Use Social Media Every Day
A new study has alarming findings but is probably not surprising to anyone who knows a teenager: High schoolers today…
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Must-Reads
Cities Where the Fewest People Graduate High School
While education levels have improved on the national level, many metropolitan areas fall far behind the United States average when…
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California
CA Community Colleges Told to Prepare for Drastically Fewer Students Taking Remedial Courses Despite Low GPAs
A new law allows colleges to use high school performance rather than placement tests to evaluate whether students are ready…
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Must-Reads
More Than a Dozen States Taken to Court over Quality of Education
The legal complaints have different areas of focus — from school funding to segregation to literacy — but all of…
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Kentucky
In Court Fight to Prevent State Takeover, Louisville District May Call New Witness: Former State Ed Chief
Former Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt was expected to recommend state assistance for JCPS rather than state management before he left…
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National Education News
Study: Social Injustices, Not Racially Biased Educators, Contribute to Minorities Being Place in Special Ed
The study by Portland State University published in The Sociological Quarter used a statistical method to compare kids with comparable…
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Must-Reads
Schools Using Artificial Intelligence to Track Every Word a Student Types
Over 50 million k-12 students will go back to school in the US this month. For many of them using…
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Newswire
How Will Texas Find and Pay for the 200,000 Students Wrongly Denied Special Education?
The TEA now projects that special education enrollment will rise over the next few years to 12.2 percent, still below…
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