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TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES

Many Texas families say remote learning isn’t working and they want it fixed https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/20/texas-schools-remote-learning/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @TexasTribune

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Wants to Set Aside $3 Million on 'Patriotic Education Fund' https://www.theroot.com/mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-wants-to-set-aside-3-mill-1845716598?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_twitter via @TheRoot

UVa's President Ryan mentioned as a 'maybe' for Biden cabinet | Latest News | starexponent.com - https://starexponent.com/news/uvas-president-ryan-mentioned-as-a-maybe-for-biden-cabinet/article_2cc3a475-e37f-5065-8d85-38bc75b37680.html on @culpeperse

Indiana Red for Ed: A year later, COVID-19 has largely erased momentum - https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2020/11/19/indiana-red-ed-year-later-covid-19-has-largely-erased-momentum/3765471001/ via @indystar

Whoever replaces Betsy DeVos as education secretary will take over during a time of unprecedented upheaval in schools. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-next-education-secretary_n_5fb6820cc5b66cd4ad4264e6?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostPol

New York City closing public schools amid rise in COVID-19 cases (Video) - Social News XYZ https://www.socialnews.xyz/2020/11/19/new-york-city-closing-public-schools-amid-rise-in-covid-19-cases-video/

What 'the science' really says about COVID-19 infections in kids - https://news.yahoo.com/science-really-says-covid-19-012329155.html on @YahooNews

Training Bias Out Of Teachers - PopularResistance.Org - https://popularresistance.org/?p=179019

It's starting to sink in: Schools before bars - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/20/its-starting-to-sink-in-schools-before-bars-438555

Texas schools to get $420 million back for expenses tied to remote learning - https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/11/18/texas-schools-to-get-420-million-back-for-expenses-tied-to-remote-learning/#new_tab via @dallasnews

Beshear: Kentucky schools must switch to virtual classes until the end of the semester https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2020/11/18/kentucky-restrictions-k-12-classes-go-virtual-rest-semester/3768641001/ via @courierjournal

Georgia high school tests won't count toward student grades - https://apnews.com/article/biology-georgia-archive-richard-woods-coronavirus-pandemic-862ca4aef63f0032d99182644998caf8#new_tab on @ap

Detroit schools to offer learning hubs during shutdown - https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/11/19/detroit-schools-offer-learning-hubs-during-shutdown/6345931002/#new_tab via @freep

Ohio lawmakers OK revamp of eligibility for school vouchers - https://apnews.com/article/legislature-ohio-poverty-school-vouchers-abf168871ded48f276bd159ed72a28d7#new_tab on @ap

CCSD could cut 1.5K jobs if distance learning lasts full school year | Las Vegas Review-Journal - https://wp.me/p8qdWm-9aXU on @reviewjournal

MN’s 20 largest school districts moving online as 69 more schools report coronavirus outbreaks – Twin Cities - https://wp.me/p79gJ9-fLZi on @pioneerpress

America's gifted education programs have a race problem. Can it be fixed? - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/america-s-gifted-education-programs-have-race-problem-can-it-n1243143#new_tab by NBCNews on @NBCNews

NYC Parents Say School Shutdown Hurts Children: 'Remote Learning is Not Working' - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyregion/schools-closing.html#new_tab

Superintendents to Polis: Change health rules or support school closure - Chalkbeat Colorado - https://co.chalkbeat.org/2020/11/19/21578926/superintendents-to-polis-change-quarantine-rules-or-stand-behind-our-closure-decisions#new_tab on chalkbeat

San Bernardino campuses will stay closed through 2020-21 school year – San Bernardino Sun - https://wp.me/p95TSE-bx7G

N.Y.C. mayor's reason for closing public schools was 'arbitrary,' adviser says https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-y-c-mayor-s-reason-closing-public-schools-was-n1248285 via @nbcnews

Montgomery County urges private schools to consider move to all-virtual learning - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-school-outbreaks/2020/11/20/464a0b08-29eb-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_local-education

Parents Erupt in Frustration as New York City Schools Close - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/parents-erupt-in-frustration-as-new-york-city-schools-close.html

More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades - The Hechinger Report - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=75515 via @hechingerreport

TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES

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Big Education Ape The Damage Betsy DeVos Has Done as Education Secretary and the Challenges Facing Joe Biden’s Pick | Vogue - https://www.vogue.com/article/betsy-devos-education-secretary-damage-joe-biden-challenge#new_tab After 8 months, D.C. Public Schools reopens buildings for more than 400 students - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-schools-reopen-build

CURMUDGUCATION: FL: Bullying, Vouchers, And More Baloney

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FL: Bullying, Vouchers, And More Baloney When it comes to school choice, Florida (state motto: "We'll abolish public education any day now") is the place to be. With an array of anti-public education public officials, a non-functioning Democratic party, and the a long history of legislative baloney, it's no wonder that this is Betsy DeVos's idea of how a state is supposed to get things done. But

Latest Ethnic Studies Curriculum Recommendations + Native American Studies Virtual Classroom + Farm to School Grants - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education)

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Latest Ethnic Studies Curriculum Recommendations - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education) State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and Scholars Present Latest Recommendations to Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Teaching Native American Studies Virtual Classroom - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr20/yr20rel95.asp Funding Opportunity: Farm to School Grants - Nutrition (CA Dept o

Jeff Bryant on The Rick Smith Show: “The idea that public schools have failed us is a propaganda campaign.” | Ed Politics

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JEFF BRYANT ON THE RICK SMITH SHOW: “THE IDEA THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED US IS A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN.” “ The idea that public schools have failed us is a propaganda campaign. Right now we see a lot of parents being upset at school districts and teachers, wondering why they can’t send their children back to school. The bigger problem is there’s a lack of government leadership dealing with fu

"Have To" History Preview: Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) | Blue Cereal Education

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"Have To" History Preview: Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) I've been posting rough drafts from what I hope will be an upcoming book focused on Supreme Court cases related to church-state separation in public education. Some aren't cases likely to get full treatment in the book but of interest to me personally, so I ramble about them here. Others – like this one – don't require ex

'State-sanctioned segregation': California’s school closure debate boils over

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'State-sanctioned segregation': California’s school closure debate boils over SACRAMENTO — Pandemic politics have reached a boiling point in California’s school reopening debate. A hands-off approach by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and public pressure from powerful labor unions has led the state’s biggest city districts to keep schools shuttered, leaving most of California’s 6 million public sch

Goodbye, Betsy: Speculation Increases Over The Next Education Secretary | HuffPost

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Goodbye, Betsy: Speculation Increases Over The Next Education Secretary The appointee would take over during a time of unprecedented upheaval in schools . Democrats in the education world are ready to say goodbye to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, but divides within the party about who should replace her fall along familiar lines. On one side, labor leaders like Randi Weingarten and Lily Eskels

The Personal Side of Being a Superintendent | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

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The Personal Side of Being a Superintendent In The Managerial Imperative: The Practice of Leadership in Schools (1988), I wrote of my experiences as a superintendent, husband, and father and how the job intersected with my life during and after the workday. Because the family side of being a superintendent is often unwritten much less talked about–especially during the Covid pandemic, I have upd

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_14.html A Look Back: Here’s The Video Of The Keynote I Gave At The VirtuEL Confer

Carol Burris: The Secretary of Education We Need–and Those We Don’t | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Carol Burris: The Secretary of Education We Need–and Those We Don’t Carol Burris wrote the following post. Marla Kilfoyle provided assistance. They asked me to add that there are dozens more exceptionally well qualified people who should be considered for this important post: they are career educators who believe in public education, not closing schools or privatization. The media has been fille

Teacher Tom: Imagine If We Stood On the Shoulders of the Remote Learning Giants

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Imagine If We Stood On the Shoulders of the Remote Learning Giants A couple days ago, I wrote a piece that had been long coming in which I called upon educators to embrace the opportunities and challenges presented by this pandemic to reimagine how we teach young children while continuing to embrace the "freedom, equality, and hands-on democratic education" that so many of us fear we are losing,

Federal Judge Permanently Bars DeVos from Diverting CARES Funds to Private Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Federal Judge Permanently Bars DeVos from Diverting CARES Funds to Private Schools While Trump appointees are doing their best to impose their policies before January 20, a federal judge in California told Betsy DeVos in no equivocal terms by a federal judge that she cannot divert CARES money to private schools. The nation’s nearly 100,000 public schools received $13.2 billion in CARES funding,

The Legacy Of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos | 89.3 KPCC

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The Legacy Of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos What to make of the tenure of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos depends, like Beauty itself, on the eye of the beholder. To the president who asked her to run the Department of Education, she was a loyal lieutenant who argued for her department's irrelevance in a nation where control of schools is a local affair — that is, until she argued the opp

NYC Educator: Another Message from Our Esteemed Chancellor

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Another Message from Our Esteemed Chancellor Dear Colleagues, This has been an eventful and challenging year on so many levels. Not for me, of course. I’ve been able to not only sit in my office at Tweed, but also stay home and not even get out of bed over the past several weeks. To date, we have seen a COVID-19 positivity rate of only 0.19 percent out of more than 120,000 students and staff tes

Covid-19 In Historic Context - Perdaily.com

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Covid-19 In Historic Context If we truly wanted to deal with Covid-19 in an effective manner, designed to minimize and ultimately stop its continuing- yet avoidable- murderous effects on our species, we would have to look at all the historical and scientific factors, that we have so far ignored, that have made us the prime target for such a pandemic- or other plague- that we clearly have the sci

As District Covid Cases Increase, McKeesport Schools Remain Open Temporarily | gadflyonthewallblog

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As District Covid Cases Increase, McKeesport Schools Remain Open Temporarily Next week, McKeesport Area School District will go fully remote to keep students safe from an ongoing outbreak of Covid-19 at several district buildings. Two new cases are suspected today at the western Pennsylvania district, says a source close to the school board. However all district buildings were open, and administ

Education Matters: District staff to start subbing... sort of... (draft)

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District staff to start subbing... sort of... (draft) You know I wish I didn't have to write pieces like this, ones where I point out how little the district cares about its staff, and this time they are showing it by doing as little as possible to avert the subbing crisis or lack of sub crisis if you will, that is going on in the district. To help out, district staff for two days only will be s

Should we talk about blended learning? Some in the UFT do not think so | JD2718

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Should we talk about blended learning? Some in the UFT do not think so I submitted a resolution to this month’s Delegate Assembly – to move away from Blended Learning . I am attaching the text at the bottom. I submitted as late as possible – five minutes before the deadline – assuming that I would be #14 on the list and it would not come up. I was a bit surprised – there were only two submission

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As District Covid Cases Increase, McKeesport Schools Remain Open Temporarily

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Next week, McKeesport Area School District will go fully remote to keep students safe from an ongoing outbreak of Covid-19 at several district buildings. Two new cases are suspected today at the western Pennsylvania district, says a source close to the school board. However all district buildings were open, and administrators say classes will continue in-person Thursday and Friday. On Monday, the

Jeff Bryant on The Rick Smith Show: “The idea that public schools have failed us is a propaganda campaign.”

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“ The idea that public schools have failed us is a propaganda campaign. Right now we see a lot of parents being upset at school districts and teachers, wondering why they can’t send their children back to school. The bigger problem is there’s a lack of government leadership dealing with fundamental problems of a pandemic, causing community spread that’s out of control. Until we get rid of the spi

Emily James: Teachers Are on a Tightrope with No Safety Net

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After more than a month into New York City’s experiment with reopening schools in a hybrid format that has students alternating between classrooms and their homes, teacher Sapphira Hendrix still finds herself working until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning, planning lessons and responding to students. One night in particular, she recounts, when finishing up a lesson plan for one of her classes, she g

CURMUDGUCATION: College Debt Sucks

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College Debt Sucks I passed a milestone a couple of months back--I paid off the last of my children's college loans. I went to college back in the 70s. My entire undergrad education cost about $16K. I could have paid for some of it with the proceeds of my summer job, but my parents covered the costs and that allowed me to save for grad school and to start out on my feet. Lots of my friends from

NYC Educator: Showing Faces (or Not) in Remote Instruction

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Showing Faces (or Not) in Remote Instruction This year, our school has asked students to show their faces during remote instruction. This is a large improvement for those of us out here doing the work. Some say this is an intrusion on student privacy. There are workarounds, though, for students uncomfortable with showing their faces or homes. Students can use virtual backgrounds, and many do. Fo

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_14.html “Give Students Choice When It’s Time to Read” by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h Giv

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Big Education Ape TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Progressives turned out for Joe Biden. Now they want a big role - - https://www.kten.com/story/42921925/progressives-turned-out-for-joe-biden-

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