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Teachers union demands transparency after COVID-19 cases shut Philadelphia school - Chalkbeat Philadelphia - https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/17/22336985/teachers-union-demands-transparency-after-covid-19-cases-shut-philadelphia-school on chalkbeat

Top-Notch Language Conversation/Pronunciation Site “Peaksay” Now Lets Teachers Create Classes! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=116310 on @Larryferlazzo

Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/Ay-V6mmInvI/

Expanded testing part of Biden administration school plans | National | gazette.com - https://gazette.com/ap/national/expanded-testing-part-of-biden-administration-school-plans/article_19bd963b-16a4-5897-83f7-29c5969b570c.html on @csgazette

The U.S. government is taking another step to encourage schools to reopen, saying it will give $10 billion for Covid-19 testing. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-give-10-billion-to-schools-for-covid-19-testing-11615996819?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

Will Classroom Social Distancing Rules Change? - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/schools-reopening-social-distancing-cdc.html on @nytimes

Senator Schumer Comes Through On Education Equity https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/editorial/senator-schumer-comes-through-on-education-equity/2021/03/17/ via @JewishPress

CDC set to revisit advice on spacing between students amid new evidence https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-reopening-distance-cdc/2021/03/17/6d252502-8740-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html?tid=ss_tw

School nurses have become crucial in battling the pandemic, but Texas doesn't require districts to have them https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/18/texas-school-nurses-coronavirus/

Help your kids, but not too much, says new Stanford study https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/helicopter-parenting

Marking one year COVID anniversary, Hite talks Philadelphia reopening, stimulus, new school year in Chalkbeat interview https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/17/22336763/marking-anniversary-hite-talks-philadelphia-reopening-stimulus-new-year-in-chalkbeat-interview

Loudoun schools to ramp up to four days a week of in-person school in April https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-county-schools-four-days-april/2021/03/17/ae43bde0-8750-11eb-8a8b-5cf82c3dffe4_story.html

OPINION: We ignore middle school students at our own peril https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-we-ignore-middle-school-students-at-our-own-peril/

Many parents eager to sign up kids for NJ COVID-19 vaccine trials https://www.njspotlight.com/video/many-parents-eager-to-sign-up-kids-for-nj-covid-19-vaccine-trials/

Education Dept. Begins Rolling Back Trump-Era Policies On Defrauded Students https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978574707/education-dept-begins-rolling-back-trump-era-policies-on-defrauded-students

The Latest Stimulus Package Includes $130 Billion For K-12 Education https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978288289/the-latest-stimulus-package-includes-130-billion-for-k-12-education

White House to Spend Billions to Increase Virus Testing and Ease Reopening https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/politics/coronavirus-testing-schools.html

San Diego County Back in the Red and Schools Are Back in the Green http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/obrag/IrDB/~3/PUT_ApPWCg8/

Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=116296 on @Larryferlazzo

Ethnic Studies Curriculum Needed in California https://www.laprogressive.com/ethnic-studies-debate/

Bad News in Kentucky: Legislature Passes Voucher Bill | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-tRp via @dianeravitch

Education Research Report: Crisis in Rural Community Colleges - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/

Lt. Governor Mark Robinson launches new website to report 'indoctrination' in North Carolina public schools - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham - https://abc11.com/mark-robinson-lt-governor-indoctrination-in-schools/10423650/#new_tab via @ABC11_WTVD

Make it easier to expand charter schools? Texas lawmakers will have that debate - https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Make-it-easier-to-expand-charter-schools-Texas-16033090.php#new_tab on @mysa

CNN segment raises questions about union commitment to school reopening - kappanonline.org - https://kappanonline.org/?p=81813 by @alexanderrusso on @pdkintl

Dallas trustees lowered the district’s academic goals because of the pandemic. DISD kindergarteners are still off-track - https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/03/18/dallas-trustees-lowered-the-districts-academic-goals-because-of-the-pandemic-disd-kindergarteners-are-still-off-track/#new_tab via @dallasnews

Local School Districts Suddenly Have Unprecedented Cash https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/local-school-districts-suddenly-have-unprecedented-cash/

A petition from Maine parents gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to protect religious freedom in education, writes Michael Bindas https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-supreme-court-has-unfinished-school-choice-business-11616000813?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJOpinion

US schools prepare summer of learning to help kids catch up » Albuquerque Journal - https://www.abqjournal.com/2371064/us-schools-prepare-summer-of-learning-to-help-kids-catch-up.html on @abqjournal

Miguel Cardona: Education secretary says school in the fall 'will look more like what it was before Covid' - CNNPolitics - https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/politics/school-reopening-covid-19-miguel-cardona/index.html#new_tab

DeSantis knocks critical race theory in civics curricula - https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-ron-desantis-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-naples-56d68d06e08105796e87c684f95bf1a7#new_tab on @ap

Proposal would change Tennessee law to let for-profit companies run charter schools https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/17/22337221/proposal-would-change-tennessee-law-to-let-for-profit-companies-run-charter-schools via @ChalkbeatTN

As U.S. Sees Encouraging News Over All, Northeast Looks Like an Outlier - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus#a-national-teachers-union-objects-to-changing-the-cdcs-six-foot-distancing-rule-for-classrooms on @nytimes

1 in 3 CPS students back in classrooms are being taught by remote teachers, principals association says - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/3/17/22336546/cps-reopening-remote-learning-public-schools-black#new_tab

Big Education Ape: Teacher Tom: Partnering With Parents - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/03/teacher-tom-partnering-with-parents.html

Cancel the F**king Tests! | The Merrow Report

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Cancel the F**king Tests! Last week in this space I put forth nine reasons why it was absolutely essential that students be required to take machine-scored, multiple-choice bubble tests once they return to school. This was an entirely facetious essay that maintained, among other things, that NOT giving tests would cause an economic recession but that GIVING tests would make it easier for student

Bad News in Kentucky: Legislature Passes Voucher Bill | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Bad News in Kentucky: Legislature Passes Voucher Bill Kentucky Republican legislators passed a voucher bill, which now goes to Democratic Governor Andy Bashear. The Governor will likely veto the bill, but the legislature can override his veto with a simple majority. This is the ultimate vengeance against teachers, who organized in 2018 to fight the Republican plan to change teachers’ pensions. T

Education Matters: Tallahassee Republicans continue to attack schools, students and teachers

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Tallahassee Republicans continue to attack schools, students and teachers Representative Dennis Baxley out of Ocala, whose day job is that of a mortician has proposed radically changing the Bright Futures scholarship program, a program that annually pays the college tuition for tens of thousands of high school graduates that attend Florida schools. He says some college degrees do not lead to emp

Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps

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Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps America is in the midst of a profound political reckoning. Against the backdrop of an unprecedented public health crisis and steadily rising death toll, a historically deep economic recession, and widespread protests against police brutality and racial injustice, people across the country are awakening and grappling anew with longstanding issues of inequa

Urge the Mayor and the Council to use a big chunk of the federal funds to reduce class size next year! | Class Size | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

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Urge the Mayor and the Council to use a big chunk of the federal funds to reduce class size next year! | Class Size Matters Urge the Mayor and the Council to use a big chunk of the federal funds to reduce class size next year! | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes Urge the Mayor and the Council to use a big chunk of the federal funds to reduce cl

Bruce D. Baker and Robert Cotto Jr.: The underfunding of Latinx-serving school districts - kappanonline org

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The underfunding of Latinx-serving school districts - kappanonline.org The underfunding of Latinx-serving school districts An analysis of spending in U.S. public schools reveals dozens of districts — many with large Latinx enrollments — that are underfunded compared to other districts in their region, even though they serve children with much greater needs. When analyzing questions of fairness in

CURMUDGUCATION: School Choice Dinner Party

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School Choice Dinner Party Pairagraph is a website set up around the idea of conversations, or debates, around a particular question. The website organizers invite a pair of people to address the question in turn for a total of four posts of no more than 500 words each. It's a fun little concept that has, so far, been applied to a broad range of topics. I was recently invited to join in one of t

Biden needs to pursue student loan forgiveness - USA TODAY

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Biden needs to pursue student loan forgiveness Student loan forgiveness: Biden can restore a broken promise We found a minefield of deceptions by student loan companies and negligent indifference by government officials. Kelly Finlaw is a middle school art teacher in New York City. Over the last year, she has also been called an “essential employee,” a “frontline worker” and — a term she has cert

In Which I Think of Ways to Respond to My Legislators | Live Long and Prosper

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In Which I Think of Ways to Respond to My Legislators Indiana is ready to add more public money to the state voucher program for private — mostly religious — schools. House Bills 1001 and 1005 would give nearly a third of the state’s increase in education funding to the 5% (10% if you count charters) of the students who go to private schools . I had written to my local state rep, Dave Heine , bu

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Biden admin unveils $10B school testing plan for Covid-19 https://politi.co/3cCTfj0 via @politico Department of Education to Host National Safe School Reopening Summit on Wednesday, March 24 | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-host-national-safe-school-reopening-summit-wednesday-m

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