74 Interview: AFT’s Randi Weingarten Talks Tying School Reopening to Teacher Vaccine Rollout, Biden’s Ed Secretary Pick and $900B Relief Bill @The74https://www.the74million.org/?p=566585
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Americans’ Secular Faith in Schooling (Part 2) It would be a grave mistake to think that American reformers only looked at schools as targets for change. Reforming individual Americans to be better persons has been in the American blood stream since the Mayflower arrived. Ditto for reforming community institutions to be better places within which to live and work. Perfecting individuals and comm
St. Louis: Privatizers and Assorted Billionaires Pick Over Bones of Public School System Tracee Miller, a member of the St. Louis Board of Education, writes that she was shocked and dismayed to discover that a proposal to raise taxes for early childhood education was actually a disguised effort to divert more public money to charter schools. The truth leaked out: Emails exposed via public record
STUDENTS SET TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AS COVID CASES SPIKE The head of the Knox County Education Association (KCEA) is calling on that district to begin school this semester in a hybrid or virtual model as COVID-19 cases spike in Knox County and across the state. WBIR has more : The Knox County Education Association called for the county’s schools to start the semester in the “red zone” with no in-pe
Delay, dismantle, resist: DeVos leaves a legacy like no other Education secretary Betsy DeVos relentlessly promoted school choice and ended many Obama-era rules. She shares few similarities with her likely successor, Connecticut state education chief Miguel Cardona. Betsy DeVos will soon step down from her perch as Education secretary, ending her four-year run as the most polarizing person to ha
We're Here on this Earth to Saunter The last item on my "to do" list yesterday involved running an errand to a place a couple miles from my home so despite the damp day I decided to make it into a leisurely afternoon walk. We live in downtown Seattle and the sidewalks have been relatively empty since March, but yesterday they were even more bereft of people than normal. Those who were out were h
Should Private and Religious Schools Receive COVID Funds Meant to Save Small Businesses? Last spring, when the pandemic began crippling the economy, Congress passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act). It was a rare moment of bipartisan action. Included in the act was the Paycheck Protection Program, which offered $660 billion to help small businesses
UFT Executive Board January 4, 2021--Vaccines, Openings, Closings and Food Banks UFT Secretary LeRoy Barr --Welcomes us. DA Next week, Jan. 13th. Karen Alford --Thanks members for toy drive donations. Says many children got toys, and over 20K in monetary donations, not to mention toys. Al Shanker scholarship deadline extended to February 1. Anthony Harmon --Food drive to help communities--partne
Testing, testing and more testing If it’s not for graduation, I would urge all parents to opt-out of whatever test the district has planned. There is a raging out of control pandemic going on, and it would be nice if our superintendent and school board acknowledged that and tried to take as much off plates as possible. Though if we are making wishes having a unicorn would be cool too. From the A
Do schools spread COVID? It depends on the community, new studies suggest - Chalkbeat Do schools spread COVID? It may depend on how bad things already are around them Opening school buildings doesn’t increase the spread of COVID-19 in places where cases or hospitalizations from the virus are rare, according to two new studies . Reopening schools in areas with higher caseloads, though, does spread
Fixing Connecticut school finance: The time is now Fixing Connecticut school finance: The time is now The COVID pandemic has laid bare the extent of inequalities across Connecticut’s cities, towns and school districts and the children and families they serve. Connecticut has long been one of our nation’s most racially and economically segregated states, while also one of the wealthiest. In the pa
EDUCATION MYTHS OF 2021 “The music we play has to be tomorrow’s, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.” ― Pete Townshend, Who I Am 2021 is now officially underway, and unsurprisingly, it’s coming in as noisily as 2020 went out. Increasing cases of COVID-19, an increasingly unhinged president, along with fights over whether school buildings should be open
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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Teachers start getting coronavirus vaccines — but only in some places - The Washington Post -
