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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Tuesday, February 2, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER #BLACKHISTORYMONTH

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Judge rules that Twin Rivers School District retaliated against whistle-blowing teacher • Sacramento News & Review - https://sacramento.newsreview.com/?p=20274 via @SacNewsReview

It’s Groundhog Day & Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=115304 on @Larryferlazzo

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=115299 on @Larryferlazzo

The Five-Second Cancellation of Abraham Lincoln http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/Fey8iRpdeuk/

Homeroom: How to Enforce Screen-Time Rules When Everything’s Online http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/kOezBtheUx0/

10 parenting strategies to reduce your kids’ pandemic stress https://www.salon.com/2021/02/01/10-parenting-strategies-to-reduce-your-kids-pandemic-stress_partner/

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Pushing Teachers to Return to In-Person Learning This Week https://www.theroot.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-pushing-teachers-to-return-1846174812

There aren't enough substitute teachers to step in when coronavirus keeps Texas teachers out of the classroom https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/02/texas-substitute-teachers-coronavirus/

NOLA Public School COVID-19 cases inch down as students return to campus https://thelensnola.org/2021/02/01/nola-public-school-covid-19-cases-inch-down-as-students-return-to-campus/

Los Angeles schools to remain in hard shutdown for near future, Beutner says http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/Ex8sVRURxNs/la-schools-remain-shut-down-near-future-covid

NJ education leaders pushing for federal waiver of school testing requirements https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/02/nj-education-leaders-pushing-for-federal-waiver-of-school-testing-requirements/

Press Sec. Jen Psaki: President Biden ‘hopeful’ deadlocked Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago Teachers Union ‘can reach common ground as soon as possible’ - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/1/22260620/chicago-teachers-union-cps-ctu-strike-mayor-lori-lightfoot-president-biden-jen-psaki-msnbc

School Districts, Teachers Are At Odds Over Resuming In-Person Classes | Iowa Public Radio - https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2021-02-01/school-districts-teachers-are-at-odds-over-resuming-in-person-classes on @IowaPublicRadio

Biden Wants to Reopen Schools Quickly. That Might Not Happen | Time - https://time.com/5935112/biden-coronavirus-school-reopening/ on @TIME

UC-AFT holds virtual teaching faculty rally to settle contract - https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/01/uc-aft-holds-virtual-teaching-faculty-rally-to-settle-contract/ via @dailycal

What it would really take to reopen American schools https://www.vox.com/22254942/covid-19-schools-reopening-cases-cdc-opening?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter via @voxdotcom

Can — and should — teachers maintain political neutrality? https://hechingerreport.org/should-teachers-be-apolitical/

COLUMN: The four steps to safely reopen schools and save our nation - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/column-the-four-steps-to-safely-reopen-schools-and-save-our-nation/

D.C. seeks a temporary restraining order against teachers union to order that teachers stop discussing a strike https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-teachers-union-restraining-order/2021/02/01/ce86ce70-64c4-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Virginia set to pass historic bill giving students time off to protest — because teen Republicans and Dems teamed up to demand it https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginia-young-dems-teen-republicans/2021/01/31/21e54dca-6228-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html?tid=ss_tw

After months of planning, protests and false starts, D.C. students and teachers head to classes for first time in nearly a year https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-schools-reopening/2021/02/02/29bfe1c4-6514-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Perspective | Teacher: What Americans keep getting wrong about our unions during the pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/02/02/what-american-get-wrong-about-teachersunions/?tid=ss_tw

Is Patrik Williams Resigning As Superintendent Of Smyrna School District Today? | Exceptional Delaware - https://wp.me/p4JboV-5Nf via @ExcptlDelaware

Pastors For Texas Children Ask U.S. Department of Education: Please Regulate the Growth of New Charters in Texas | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-thC via @dianeravitch

Education Pick Miguel Cardona Is New To Washington — But Not To Classrooms https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/962050863/education-pick-miguel-cardona-is-new-to-washington-but-not-to-classrooms?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Florida: Stop the Mega-Voucher Bill! | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-tp0 via @dianeravitch

Mpls. schools must accept staff work-from-home requests - StarTribune.com - https://www.startribune.com/court-orders-minneapolis-district-to-accept-teachers-work-from-home-accommodation-requests/600017433/#new_tab on @StarTribune

Missing in School Reopening Plans: Black Families’ Trust - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/us/politics/school-reopening-black-families.html#new_tab

Alabama teacher retirements in 2020 highest in nearly a decade - al.com - https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/alabama-teacher-retirements-highest-in-2020-in-nearly-a-decade.html#new_tab on @aldotcom

California governor and unions clash over school openings - ABC News - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/california-governor-unions-clash-school-openings-75604705#new_tab

N.C. Senate Republicans file bill to reopen schools with option of fully in-person learning - https://www.wbtv.com/2021/02/01/nc-senate-republicans-file-bill-reopen-schools-with-option-fully-in-person-learning/#new_tab via @WBTV_News

Debate about elitism at S.F.'s Lowell High School reflects broader fight over merit-based admissions - https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Debate-about-elitism-at-S-F-s-Lowell-High-15917176.php on @sfchronicle

Petition claims school board member’s posts support racism, homophobia - Deseret News - https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/2/1/22260429/petition-ouster-state-school-board-natalie-cline-racism-homophobia#new_tab on deseretnews

Biden's 100-day school goal smacks into reality - Axios - https://www.axios.com/biden-100-day-school-reopen-goal-reality-abd66dfc-5d1d-4917-b026-b53f7f84c062.html#new_tab on @axios

As virus cuts class time, teachers have to leave out lessons - https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-teachers-schools-f45f9bf7843483dedfaa525fe7afd4a5#new_tab on @ap

Less excited, less prepared, less challenged: Mass. high school students report big disparities in learning online vs. in person - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/less-excited-less-prepared-less-challenged-mass-high-school-students-report-big-disparities-in-learning-online-vs-in-person/ar-BB1djPMB#new_tab

What to watch for during Connecticut education Commissioner Miguel Cardona’s confirmation hearing to be U.S. education secretary - Hartford Courant - https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-cardona-senate-hearing-advance-20210202-2oh4cnhxdndwvb7tvou4zfwvdu-story.html#new_tab via @hartfordcourant

Advocates push wide-ranging new Arizona school voucher bill - https://apnews.com/article/education-costs-arizona-coronavirus-pandemic-school-vouchers-dbfb56bcfb2d13bcc34cf9b08716382d#new_tab on @ap

Biden's first big Covid test: Keeping parents of school kids from losing it - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/joe-biden-covid-teachers-unions-parents-463380#new_tab

School District's Art Department Calls Acronyms 'Symptom of White Supremacy,' Changes Name - https://www.newsweek.com/school-districts-art-department-calls-acronyms-symptom-white-supremacy-changes-name-1566141#new_tab on @newsweek


Big Education Ape: Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools - The Washington Post - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/report-california-wasting-millions-of.html


Big Education Ape: As Trump Era Ends, “School Choice Movement” Must Confront Its Conservative Roots | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/as-trump-era-ends-school-choice.html


Big Education Ape: Black History Month 2021: “There’s a Lot Left to Be Done” by Ben Jealous | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/black-history-month-2021-theres-lot.html


Big Education Ape: Teacher Tom: "For Your Own Good" - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/teacher-tom-for-your-own-good.html


Big Education Ape: The State (SC): Read to Succeed bill would fail reading again in South Carolina – radical eyes for equity - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-state-sc-read-to-succeed-bill-would.html


Big Education Ape: The Whole Truth about Kids, Schools, and Covid-19 (Derek Thompson) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-whole-truth-about-kids-schools-and.html


Big Education Ape: CURMUDGUCATION: Donors Choose Monday: Give This Book - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/curmudgucation-donors-choose-monday.html


Big Education Ape: NYC Educator: UFT Executive Board February 1, 2021--Slogging Through the Pandemic Snowstorm - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/nyc-educator-uft-executive-board.html


Big Education Ape: Republicans Want to Slash Funding for Schools in COVID Relief Bill | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/republicans-want-to-slash-funding-for.html


Big Education Ape: Schools Matter: Part 2: Red State Governors Pick Up Where DeVos Left Off - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/schools-matter-part-2-red-state.html


Big Education Ape: TOO MANY THREADS – Dad Gone Wild - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/too-many-threads-dad-gone-wild.html


Big Education Ape: LEO’S TV – radical eyes for equity - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/leos-tv-radical-eyes-for-equity.html


Big Education Ape: How a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change - Alternet.org - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/how-fight-for-elementary-school-became.html


Big Education Ape: MPS celebrates National Black Lives Matter Week of Action 2021 | Educate All Students, Support Public Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/mps-celebrates-national-black-lives.html


Big Education Ape: NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER #BLACKHISTORYMONTH - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/newblackman-in-exile-today-blm_2.html


Big Education Ape: A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER #BLACKHISTORYMONTH - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-very-busy-day-larry-ferlazzos_2.html


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Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools - The Washington Post

Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools - The Washington Post
Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools




A new report on California’s online charter schools says that the state is “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year by funding these schools at a level far above their costs.”

The report, published Tuesday by a California-based nonprofit research and policy organization called In the Public Interest, also says that the “track record of online charter schools has been uniformly negative for every demographic subgroup of students” despite the promise of online education.

“In a time when school districts everywhere face the heartbreak of knowing they cannot provide all the services their students need and deserve, it is critical that lawmakers act as conservative stewards of the state’s tax collars by focusing funding on the schools where it can do the greatest good for the greatest number of the state’s students,” the report says.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated. About 10 percent of public school students in California attend charter schools — both brick-and-mortar and online. According to the report, nearly 175,000 California students in 2018-19 were enrolled in online charter schools, representing 27 percent of all charter school students in the state.

The charter sector in California — which has more charter schools and more charter students than any other state — has long been troubled. Though charter schools are designed to operate outside the rules of school district bureaucracies, the state allowed them to expand for years with very little oversight despite continuing controversy over financial scandals and other problems.

In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law the most substantial changes to California’s charter school laws since passage of the original California Charter Schools Act in 1992. Among the changes was a two-year moratorium on new online charter schools till the end of this year. The state legislature will have to address the issue of whether to extend the ban on new online charter schools in the current session, which ends in September. CONTINUE READING: Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools - The Washington Post