NANCY BAILEY: Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

Acceleration is the new pandemic buzzword brought to you by pro-privatization school reformers. Students may have missed some in-person schooling, even though most learned remotely or in person. Still, the frenzy surrounding learning loss is mounting.

The pandemic has given rise to a new way to reframe the old learning gap talk, with new terminology, acceleration. If students have missed out on schoolwork, they’re told they need to accelerate and catch up if they’ve fallen behind.

The fear is that the pandemic will be used as an excuse to push students harder. Poor students will bear the brunt of this, a doubling down on strictness.

But all students are affected when advanced learning disregards a child’s development.

This message has festered for years, starting with No Child Left Behind. Failure was not an option, we were told, as they continually raised the ante. If students did well, the test CONTINUE READING: Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

Shawgi Tell: Public Funds For Charter Schools Is Socially Irresponsible | Dissident Voice

Public Funds For Charter Schools Is Socially Irresponsible | Dissident Voice

Public Funds For Charter Schools Is Socially Irresponsible

Charter School Report Card (Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society) (9781681232959): Tell, Shawgi: Books - https://www.amazon.com/Charter-School-Report-Critical-Constructions/dp/1681232952

Public money comes from the new value workers produce. It does not come from somewhere else. This value is presently controlled not by those who produce it but by the financial oligarchy and its state. When socially-produced wealth is not controlled by those who actually produce it, endless problems arise. There is no way for the economy to benefit all individuals and serve the general interests of society when it is dominated by a handful of billionaires.

Socially-produced wealth belongs to the public and must be used for social programs and public services that benefit the socialized economy and the general interests of society. This includes education, healthcare, municipal services, and more. This can be achieved when major economic decisions are made by a public authority worthy of the name. A government beholden to the rich and their political representatives leads only to more retrogressive developments.

Since public money does not come from, or belong to, narrow private interests, it must not be used for privatized education arrangements such as charter schools. That is socially irresponsible.

Privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools are contract schools run by unelected individuals. They are not state agencies like public CONTINUE READING: Public Funds For Charter Schools Is Socially Irresponsible | Dissident Voice

Revisiting California's Battle of Hastings - LA Progressive

Revisiting California's Battle of Hastings - LA Progressive

Revisiting California’s Battle of Hastings

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The 2005 Sacking of the Netflix CEO as State Education Board Chief Looks Different Now

After long days supervising my children in their struggles with the miseries of distance learning and hybrid school, I try to relax by watching Netflix. As I do, I often find myself thinking about a state legislative hearing from 2005, and how different California education might be if it had gone differently.

The hearing, in a committee of the State Senate, was supposed to be routine. I, an L.A. Times reporter at the time, didn’t even bother to cover it. The subject was reappointment of the president of the State Board of Education. The president, Reed Hastings, was thought to be a shoo-in.

After all, Hastings, a tech entrepreneur and Democratic donor from Santa Cruz, had put together a successful ballot measure to make it easier to pass school bonds, launching a new era of school construction statewide after decades of neglect. He’d supported the state’s accountability system for schools, and backed the establishment of public charter schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Hastings also had bipartisan support—he’d been appointed four years earlier by a Democrat, Gov. Gray Davis, and was nominated for re-appointment by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.

But the hearing went sideways. Some education groups didn’t like charter schools, or his blunt interest in transforming education systems. Hastings himself suggested that he was felled by CONTINUE READING: Revisiting California's Battle of Hastings - LA Progressive

My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog

My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog

My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education

When I served in the George H.W. Bush administration, I was Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

OERI, as it was then called, had almost no discretionary money. There was very little opportunity for any initiatives, which may have been a good thing at that time. I became very involved in advocacy for national standards, which I now regret. I also spoke up for the national goals (remember them?), most of which were out of reach (like, we will be first in the world in math and science by the year 2000). OERI has since been pretentiously renamed the “Institute for Education Sciences.”

However, there is one thing that I am very proud of. I initiated a statistical review of the history of American education and the best brains in the Office of Research gathered the data to show the progress of education. It was published in 1992.

It is called 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait.

I still refer to it when writing essays that require historical CONTINUE READING: My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog

Education Coalition Calls on Governor to Boost Funding for Schools – Tennessee Education Report

Education Coalition Calls on Governor to Boost Funding for Schools – Tennessee Education Report

EDUCATION COALITION CALLS ON GOVERNOR TO BOOST FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS

Just one day after Gov. Bill Lee introduced his budget amendment that included no new funds for K-12 education, a coalition of education advocates from across the state called on Lee and the General Assembly to improve the amendment and boost funding for public schools. The move follows a statement from the Tennessee Education Association on Tuesday that said Lee’s budget for education comes up “woefully short.”

Here’s more from the Tennessee Public Education Coalition (TPEC):

Members of TPEC are deeply disappointed in Governor Lee’s failure to meet even the minimum funding needs of Tennessee’s schools, teachers, and students. Tennessee has long failed to adequately invest in its children. Tennessee ranks 46^th nationally in education funding, and the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations reports that Tennessee’s K-12 funding formula underfunds public schools by $1.7 billion per year. 

Tennessee’s coffers are awash in excess revenue, and our schools’ needs are immense. Tennessee’s surplus for the current fiscal year, with over five months to go, is over $1.3 billion, with lawmakers expected to have at least $3.1 billion in excess revenue to budget in the current cycle. Tennessee also has $7.5 billion in cash reserves. Our CONTINUE READING: Education Coalition Calls on Governor to Boost Funding for Schools – Tennessee Education Report

Teacher Tom: It's The Process

Teacher Tom: It's The Process

It's The Process

There are some things that I believe exist even though I've never seen them with my own eyes. Baby pigeons, for instance. Last week, I saw my first actual graffiti artist/vandal in action. Frankly, I'd always envisioned the people who tag the vertical surface of Seattle as young males skulking about in during the wee hours, but this scofflaw was a woman who appeared to be closer to 40, brazenly going about her work at midday. She even had an assistant, a man with some gray in his beard who seemed to be responsible for keeping her cans of spray paint organized.

The wall they had chosen were not just any wall. It was a retaining wall built to prevent the land under the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation building from eroding away. This is what I'd call the back side of the property and not visible from the building itself. As I allowed my dog to sniff the shrubbery to her heart's content, I lingered to watch the artist at work, her nose right up against her illicit canvas, carefully filling in the outline of a bubble letter. I'd imagined that the people who did kind of thing must always be in a hurry, hoping to leave their mark, then escape without detection, but there was no urgency at all. In fact, as I CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: It's The Process

Covid-19 changed education in America — permanently - POLITICO

Covid-19 changed education in America — permanently - POLITICO

Covid-19 changed education in America — permanently

It’s been a school year like no other. Here’s what we learned.

There was a moment last spring when every parent and employer in America suddenly realized how deeply their lives and livelihoods depended on an institution too often in the background and taken for granted: the nation’s schools.

With almost no notice, adults and children found themselves in the middle of a massive national experiment in new ways of teaching and learning, and new ways of dividing responsibilities between home, school and work.

A year later, it’s clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed education in America in lasting ways, and glimpses of that transformed system are already emerging. School districts are developing permanent virtual options in the expectation that after the pandemic, some families will stick with remote learning — even for elementary school kids. Hundreds of colleges have, for the first time, admitted a freshman class without requiring SAT or ACT scores, potentially opening admissions to the most selective colleges to more low-income students. And thousands of educators across the country, from preschool to college, are finding new ways to spark their students’ creativity, harness technology and provide the services they need to succeed.

The pandemic has unleashed a wave of innovation in education that has accelerated change and prompted blue-sky thinking throughout the system. What if more schools could enhance learning and nutrition by offering their students not just a free breakfast and lunch, but dinner and a snack? What if schools delivered books during the summer? What if high school art students had access to graphic design and architecture software?

It’s not all upside, of course; the pandemic has been a tragedy for many CONTINUE READING: Covid-19 changed education in America — permanently - POLITICO

CURMUDGUCATION: SC: Lawsuit Looks For Public Dollar Pay Day For Catholic Schools

CURMUDGUCATION: SC: Lawsuit Looks For Public Dollar Pay Day For Catholic Schools

SC: Lawsuit Looks For Public Dollar Pay Day For Catholic Schools

In South Carolina, a lawsuit filed this week seeks to obliterate the wall between church and state.

Like most such lawsuits, the federal lawsuit has been a advocacy group that specializes in such things-- you may remember the Liberty Justice Center as the folks who won the Janus case, which either was an attack on unions wrapped in the First Amendment. 

As with most such cases, the advocacy group needed to find themselves some plaintiffs to attach the case to. What's striking this time is that the plaintiffs are not some group of regular citizens-- the lawsuit-- Bishop of Charleston v. Adams  has been filed on behalf of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, plus a group of independent colleges.

The federal suit follows the South Carolina Supreme Court's rejection of Governor Henry McMaster's attempt to use CARES pandemic relief funds for private schools.

That court found the desire to hand public funds to private schools unconstitutional. So the solution is obvious--sue to have the state's constitution rewritten.

The case has a target perfect for PR purposes--the Blaine Amendment. In 1875, President Grant proposed, and Congressman James G. Blaine officially launched, a move to add a constitutional CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: SC: Lawsuit Looks For Public Dollar Pay Day For Catholic Schools

Is Canceling “High Stakes Testing” More Important than Halving Childhood Poverty? | Ed In The Apple

Is Canceling “High Stakes Testing” More Important than Halving Childhood Poverty? | Ed In The Apple

Is Canceling “High Stakes Testing” More Important than Halving Childhood Poverty?

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist , calls our nation “a beacon of failure,”

“The U.S., with its cherished image as a land of opportunity, should be an inspiring example of just and enlightened treatment of children. Instead, it is a beacon of failure,”

“Though an average American childhood may not be the worst in the world, the disparity between the country’s wealth and the condition of its children is unparalleled.”

Our childhood poverty rate is 19.9 percent, the highest among all developed countries, except Romania.

President Johnson’s “War On Poverty” offered hope; however the Republican Calvinist approach, “helping” the poor would only reinforce poverty, prevailed. 

The Biden initiative, the American Rescue Plan reverses half a century of ignoring the “truly disadvantaged” and offers hope for abandoned Americans.

 Nick Kristoff in the New York Times writes,

  Today one of our saddest statistics is this: American children ages 1 to 19 CONTINUE READING: Is Canceling “High Stakes Testing” More Important than Halving Childhood Poverty? | Ed In The Apple

New Equity Bill Levels Educational Playing Field + 2021 Model School Attendance Review Board Winners - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education)

New Equity Bill Levels Educational Playing Field - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education)

New Equity Bill to Level the Educational Playing Field Advances with Bipartisan Senate Education Committee Support

SACRAMENTO—New legislation designed to lift up some of the lowest-performing school districts in California—sponsored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and authored by Senator Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara)—received bipartisan approval from the California State Senate Committee on Education today, providing a pathway to help close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color.

Senate Bill (SB) 540, which heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee to be heard later this month, will establish a grant program to provide additional targeted assistance to 10 low-performing school districts with identified opportunity gaps for students of color.

“While there are hopeful signs as more and more students return to classrooms, it is important to remember that the inequities that existed before this crisis have only been deepened by this incredibly challenging time,” State Superintendent Thurmond said. “SB 540 will allow the California Department of Education to invest in 10 of the highest-need school districts through an aggressive three-year funding package that focuses on equity coaching and intervention, professional development, and family engagement strategies. We cannot to let students already at a disadvantage slip further behind because of our failure to invest in these schools.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the educational disparities that exist among school districts. SB 540 begins to address the equity gaps that exist in our education system and provide the proper resources to make sure that students, especially those in low-income and communities of color, do not fall behind,” said Senator Limón.

The equity gaps that have existed in the educational system are systemic and long-standing. Research shows that on average, Black students attend schools that are 48 percent Black, while white students attend schools that are only 9 percent Black. By the time Black children enter high school, they are often more than four academic years behind their white counterparts. Suspensions for African American children are approximately three to five times higher than for white children. In the United States, by age 24, only 78 percent of Latinos and 87 percent of Blacks have earned a high school diploma compared to 94 percent of whites. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened these disparities.

SB 540 would allocate grants of $1.25 million to each of the 10 highest-need school districts for the 2021–22 fiscal year and the following two fiscal years. This key investment in underserved California students will urgently and immediately provide assistance to recover and help schools build the structures to accelerate learning for students and to support families hardest hit by a global pandemic.

More information on SB 540 can be found on the California Legislative Information bill analysis website.

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Tony Thurmond — State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Communications Division, Room 5602, 916-319-0818, Fax 916-319-0100

New Equity Bill Levels Educational Playing Field - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education)

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces 2021 Model School Attendance Review Board Winners

SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced today that 20 school attendance review boards (SARBs) have been designated as model programs in California for their attendance strategies during distance learning. The announcement of these Model SARB Awards comes after an unprecedented disruption of in-person attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“These 19 school districts and one county office of education created exemplary plans and worked hard to follow through on them to help students stay engaged in their education—all during the unprecedented closure of our schools due to a global pandemic,” said Thurmond. “Many of these same great attendance strategies will also be crucial for student success as even more schools reopen for safe in-person attendance in the near future.”

The Model SARB Award winners, which include 19 school districts and one county office of education, implemented Learning Continuity and Attendance Plans that focused on these four approaches to meeting the needs of students during distance learning:

1. Shifting staff roles and responsibilities to meet the needs of distance learning students.
2. Supporting virtual attendance of pupils with unique needs.
3. Providing for the mental health and well-being of students during distance learning.
4. Pupil and family engagement and outreach.

As an example, Long Beach Unified School District is a Model SARB because its attendance strategies focus on quality interactions with families and students to promote improved attendance. This includes looking at students’ and families’ unique needs and providing personalized supports to remove barriers to attendance. SARB members are assigned follow-up with each referred family to provide materials, asynchronous work assignments, and links to community resources. SARB members also connect with community partners to ensure that families have access to timely and quality services. By working with the family and community as partners for children, Long Beach Unified’s SARB provides families with a supportive and empowering experience.

State Superintendent Thurmond annually convenes the State’s School Attendance Review Board, which brings together key agencies and community partners to score applications submitted by district and county SARBs throughout the state.

The Model SARBs will be recognized publicly and information about their strategies will be shared at the State SARB meeting on April 15, 2021, and at the annual state conference of the California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance on April 27, 2021.

Below is a list of the recognized school districts and county office of education and their Model SARB chairperson:

• Alhambra Unified School District, Lindsey Ma
• Alvord Unified School District, Ian Fish
• Centinela Valley Union High School District, Vanessa Landesfeind
• Centralia Elementary School District, Dr. Stacy Chang
• Corona-Norco Unified School District, John Reynoso
• Fontana Unified School District, Jose Barzaga
• Glendale Unified School District, Dr. Ilin Magran
• Hacienda la Puente Unified School District, Cynthia Cabello
• Jurupa Unified School District, Olga Lidia Alferez
• Kern High School District, Erin Rader
• Lake Elsinore Unified School District, Steve Behar
• Long Beach Unified School District, Claudia Sosa-Valderrama
• Murrieta Valley Unified School District, Katherine Wood
• Pittsburg Unified School District, Dr. ReJois Fraziers-Myers
• Romoland School District, Carmen Kaas
• Sanger Unified School District, Johnny P. Gonzalez
• Santa Ana Unified School District, Jackie Sanchez
• Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools, Rob Egger
• Val Verde Unified School District, Thomas Gronotte
• William S. Hart Union High School District, Erum Velek
  

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Tony Thurmond — State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Communications Division, Room 5602, 916-319-0818, Fax 916-319-0100

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces 2021 Model School Attendance Review Board Winners

How to Revise Your Essay after Receiving Feedback – radical eyes for equity

How to Revise Your Essay after Receiving Feedback – radical eyes for equity

How to Revise Your Essay after Receiving Feedback

Below is a new handout I created after discussing revision with my first-year seminar. Hope this is useful and you can access as a Word file in the link provided in the title below.

How to Revise Your Essay after Receiving Feedback

When you receive your essay with feedback (highlighting, track changes, comments), save that file to your hard drive (not One Drive) and then “Save as” in Word (hard drive, not One Drive) a new file following Essay submission guidelines for naming files.

Work on your revision directly with this copy of your essay and make sure track changes are off (in Review tab).

Address all feedback, creating a clean copy as you work. Refer to Guidelines for Managing and Submitting Assignments in order to work with track changes and comments (as well as removing highlighting). You can address track changes one at a time or all at once.

NOTE: Be sure to revise and edit beyond the direct feedback that you receive. Review your essay carefully for issues similar to the feedback that are not CONTINUE READING: How to Revise Your Essay after Receiving Feedback – radical eyes for equity

Education Matters: Florida GOP bullies its most vulnerable children

Education Matters: Florida GOP bullies its most vulnerable children

Florida GOP bullies its most vulnerable children

The Florida House came up with a solution without a problem, which includes girls' genitals being inspected by a stranger. The GOP just said to children, want to play a sport? Then be ready to show your privates.

The Florida GOP, a gerrymandered bunch, isn't about solving problems or making things better; it's about exercising its power to gin up its base. The state is so gerrymandered to assure them victory that they don't need to, which just makes their latest effort to punch trans children, for checks notes, being trans children is based on sure meanness.  

From First Coast News,

 Florida lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that would ban transgender girls from participating in women's sports.

HB 1475 passed the House by a 77-40 vote.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kaylee Tuck, R-Lake Placid, is dubbed the “Fairness In Women’s Sports Act.” It would make participation in athletics contingent on determining a student’s “biological sex.” If a student- CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Florida GOP bullies its most vulnerable children

Breaking News: SCTA Rep Council Unanimously Approves Strike Support for SEIU Classified Workers

Breaking News: SCTA Rep Council Unanimously Approves Strike Support for SEIU Classified Workers

SCTA Rep Council Unanimously Approves Standing with SEIU Classified Workers

Up to and Including Striking in Sympathy

Greetings!

Late last week, SEIU Local 1021 which represents approximately 1750 classified workers in SCUSD turned out in record number to reject the District latest offer regarding a reopening MOU and to authorize a strike by a 92% margin.

Classified workers are standing up to the efforts of Superintendent Aguilar to roll back the health and safety standards achieved in our MOU with the District.

We have sat side-by-side with SEIU and they have been with us as we have negotiated how to safely reopen schools to resume in-person instruction.

This evening we held an emergency rep council meeting. After a full discussion, the SCTA rep council unanimously approved the following resolution:

"SCTA stands in solidarity with SEIU. We will fully support our classified co-workers up to and including a sympathy strike with SEIU."

SEIU and SCUSD have been assigned a state mediator. No bargaining has yet been set, and SEIU also has not yet set a strike deadline.

Parents entrust the whole school team with their children so that we can help them learn and keep them safe. SCTA strongly opposes Superintendent Aguilar's effort to roll back health and safety standards and our classified staff.

We will be providing further updates over the next several days, but we wanted to share this important information immediately.

In Unity,

David, Nikki, and John

Sacramento City Teachers Association |916.452.4591 | scta@saccityta.com| www.sacteachers.org

Breaking News: SCTA Rep Council Unanimously Approves Strike Support for SEIU Classified Workers

IGNORANCE OR INTENTION – Dad Gone Wild

IGNORANCE OR INTENTION – Dad Gone Wild

IGNORANCE OR INTENTION

“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

 

Most people enter into the education world through a desire to work with children and make a meaningful impact on the world’s future. We are greeted upon entry, by slogans like, “All children matter”, and “Children First.” Groups proliferate the scene with benign names like “Tennesseans for Student Success” and “Student’s First” and such. Lately, a newly founded non-profit with the moniker, Parents Defending Education is gobbling up headlines. Sounds great, until you take a peek behind the curtain and see some familiar faces.

Stay in the game long enough and you start to become a little cynical. You start to realize that serving all kids, translates into serving most kids, or some kids. Which kids fall into the bucket, largely seems to be the ones that generate the most income, both from private donors and federal programs. There is no payday in championing gifted children or those from wealthier families, but an executive director can make a great deal of money attaching their mission statement to an underserved population. For evidence, you just need to look at the salaries for ED’s of non-profits active in Tennessee. Salaries that far eclipse those of teachers and principals.

• John King, Education Trust, made $531,027 in 2018. Many of you know that Acting-US Secretary of Education Ian Rosenblum previously worked for EDuTrusrt but did you know that in 2018 he cleared a salary of $216,788?
• Elisa Villanueva Beard, Teach For America, in 2017 drew an annual salary of $493,836
• Daniel Weisberg, TNTP, in 2018 received $348,779 in compensation.
• David Mansouri, SCORE CEO, and Sharon Roberts, Chief Impact Officer, pulled in $313,295 and 272,808 respectively.
• Brent Easly, TNCAN, the year before he went to work for Governor Lee cleared roughly $170K.
• Candace McQueen, NIET, didn’t take over as Executive Director until last year but in 2018 her predecessor drew a salary of $402K
• Emily Freitag, Instruction Partners, in 2018 cleared $225K, willing to bet it’s a lot higher these days.

The tragic part of all of this is that the very students that are being used as payroll generators are CONTINUE READING: IGNORANCE OR INTENTION – Dad Gone Wild

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Wednesday, April 14, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

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TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES 

New school board member talks goals for Philadelphia students, lawsuit by former affiliate group ACLU https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/13/22382434/new-school-board-member-talks-goals-for-philadelphia-students-lawsuit-by-former-affiliate-group-aclu via @ChalkbeatPHL

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching Then and Now | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10864 on @NEPCtweet

Elizabeth Warren Slams Student Loan Servicer as Democrats Call for Debt Cancellation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/motherjones/main/~3/Db2FaTm6P5A/

OKCPS requests investigative audit of Santa Fe South charter school https://nondoc.com/2021/04/13/okcps-requests-investigative-audit-of-santa-fe-south-charter-school/ via @nondocmedia

$50K of student loan forgiveness would wipe out federal debt for 36M, new data shows https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/13/student-loan-forgiveness-new-data-481202

Students at North Texas School Disciplined After Holding Slave Auction on Snapchat https://www.theroot.com/students-at-north-texas-school-disciplined-after-holdin-1846675615

NOLA Public Schools draws competition for City Council’s Harrah’s funds https://thelensnola.org/2021/04/13/nola-public-schools-draws-competition-for-city-councils-harrahs-funds/

Sac City Unified bus drivers, custodians, food workers threaten strike over reopening plan https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article250634924.html

Sacramento City Unified schools report 5 returning students test positive for COVID-19 http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB1fCxqr?ocid=st

Climate Justice, Jobs & Freedom to Thrive - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5NrfVrOCdQ on @youtube

Los Angeles Unified reopens for in-person learning https://edsource.org/2021/los-angeles-unified-reopens-for-in-person-learning/653023

The stark racial disparity among students returning to Sacramento City Unified classrooms https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article250201690.html

Hours before reopening, Sacramento City schools declare labor impasse - https://news.yahoo.com/hours-reopening-sacramento-city-schools-151324322.html on @YahooNews

Atlanta School Board Distances Itself from Confederate Past, Renames School in Honor of Hank Aaron https://www.theroot.com/atlanta-school-board-distances-itself-from-confederate-1846680698

Column: The UC system is one of the best and worst parts of living in California http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/oFDy5x4Gakk/column-the-uc-system-admissions-rejections-california

Black students in 14 L.A. County school districts face serious equity barriers, study finds http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/_ZBrljQWrOM/black-students-la-county-school-districts-face-serious-equity-barriers-study

Op-Ed: Time to act on policy solutions for NJ students https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/04/op-ed-nj-schools-in-person-return-solutions-accelerate-student-learning-recommendations-copying-what-works/

Educating For Democracy Act Proposes Grants To Support Civics Education https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/987099824/educating-for-democracy-act-proposes-grants-to-support-civics-education

State school exams start next week — but it’s unclear how they’ll count in NYC middle- and high-school admissions https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-admissions-state-tests-opt-in-20210413-mhiorzwgobaebi4f3dcfysrj6a-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/

Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/hank-aaron-high-school-atlanta.html

Back to School with Variants: COVID Strikes at Our Youth https://www.laprogressive.com/back-to-school-with-variants/

OPINION: As we eye post-pandemic life, it’s time to unclog the pipeline between education and work https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-as-we-eye-post-pandemic-life-its-time-to-unclog-the-pipeline-between-education-and-work/

Education Secretary Cardona praises newly reopened school in Maryland during reopening tour https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/cardona-maryland-mother-jones-school/2021/04/13/a1d64762-9bc8-11eb-8005-bffc3a39f6d3_story.html

Education Research Report: Secondary readers benefit more from engaging instruction than from additional reading periods or technology - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/

Ed Notes Online: The United Front: Retiree Advocate/UFT brings friends and former opponents together for Retiree Chapter election - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-united-front-retiree-advocateuft.html

Perspective | Thirteen things that should happen in schools now — but most probably won’t https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/14/13-things-that-should-happen-in-schools-now-but-probably-wont/?tid=ss_tw

School meals are the healthiest food children eat, study finds - CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/healthy-school-food-nutrition-wellness/index.html#new_tab

Teachers were due at schools to prepare for students to return on Monday. But the union reports progress on key issues at the bargaining table. https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-teachers-walking-out-wednesday-to-ramp-up-pressure-for-a-deal-on-high-school-reopening/dbebaafb-f57a-4e08-80cd-ad946a8ad6bd

OKC charter schools leader calls audit a 'personally motivated' attack - https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2021/04/13/okc-charter-schools-calls-investigative-audit-personally-motivated-attack/7207358002/#new_tab via @theoklahoman_

Many English learners reluctant to return to in-person instruction at California schools http://edsource.org/?page_id=652916 via @edsource

Students flocked to cyber-charter schools this year. So did district revenue and federal relief funds https://www.penncapital-star.com/education/students-flocked-to-cyber-charter-schools-this-year-so-did-district-revenue-and-federal-relief-funds/ via @penncapitalstar

Hillsborough’s charter school growth comes at a rough time, officials say https://www.tampabay.com/news/community-news/2021/04/13/hillsboroughs-charter-school-growth-comes-at-a-rough-time-officials-say/#new_tab

Alabama family sues Athens, Limestone officials over virtual schools scheme https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/alabama-family-sues-athens-limestone-officials-over-virtual-schools-scheme.html

'Zoom in a Room'? California's schools lag in reopening push - https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-san-francisco-distance-learning-coronavirus-pandemic-california-46766e48d1a26f77cca1e3b712186d39#new_tab on @ap

Tulsa-Area School Boards Approve Legal Action Against State Board Over Charter Funding Decision https://tinyurl.com/ydrs2hsp

Charter schools could see more money under GOP-backed measure advancing in Missouri | Education | stltoday.com - https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/charter-schools-could-see-more-money-under-gop-backed-measure-advancing-in-missouri/article_9af93623-5e31-581b-b4e9-a410e8d8a414.html#new_tab

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says school have to be "redesigned" post-pandemic https://www.newsweek.com/education-secretary-miguel-cardona-says-schools-have-redesigned-post-pandemic-1583580

School won't be named after Obamas following protests https://www.newsweek.com/school-will-not-named-after-barack-michelle-obama-protests-1583460

New Montgomery Co. task force will address student mental health | wusa9.com - https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/post-school-resource-o-conversation-montgomery-leaders-create-task-force-to-address-students-mental-health-needs/65-c6940256-e77e-4e84-956a-36638698034f#new_tab on WUSA9

In emotional testimonies, students discuss needs for federal relief money going to Philadelphia schools - Chalkbeat Philadelphia - https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/14/22384024/in-testimonies-students-discuss-needs-for-federal-relief-money-going-to-philadelphia-schools on chalkbeat

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