Cheating Choice Schools, Declining Fertility, and More: Friday's Ed News Roundup
Friday's ed news
WISCONSIN: The Milwaukee school district is violating a law requiring them to sell choice and charter schools unused buildings, says a law firm.
MICHIGAN: A Michigan State professor has been suspended with pay for threatening students who disagree with him politically.
BIRTH RATES: Declining fertility may be the biggest coming crisis in education funding.
CALIFORNIA: Lawmakers have introduced a bill to make it more difficult to create charter schools.
ILLINOIS: A lawmaker has introduced a bill to suspend Common Core while the state conducts a financial analysis.
MATH: Now nearly three of four students takes Algebra II, but the label now applies to easier math.
NEVADA: The nation's fifth-largest school district seeks to use air-conditioning breakdowns to get voters to increase property taxes permanently, despite recent upgrades and high infrastructure spending.
COMMON CORE: Four questions no one's asking.
Thursday's ed news
MAINE: The governor signs an executive order contramanding several objectional parts of Common Core.
PENSIONS: Why most public pensions hurt teachers, and how to fix it.
ALABAMA: More kids got school choice from No Child Left Behind than a new state law.
CALIFORNIA: The state accelerates plans for computerized testing.
LOUISIANA: More than 9 in 10 teachers are rated effective or highly effective under new evaluations.
MOTIVATION: Should parents and schools pay kids for good grades?
PARENTS: A new federal survey reveals how engaged parents are in their kids' schools. Most are.
EMPOWERMENT: In which states do parents have the best ability to access quality education options? The updated Parent Power Index is out.
WISCONSIN: The state finally estimates what taxpayers will pay for Common Core: $250 million or more.
SLEEP: The U.S. secretary of education supports later school start times for teens.
FLORIDA: The state department of education is tweeting a different Common Core standard each day to teach more about the standards.
Wednesday's ed news
ALABAMA: 719 students use a new school choice law to switch schools, but just 52 transfer to private schools.
WISCONSIN: Families get five days to decide if they will accept vouchers for this fall.
CALIFORNIA: A poll finds voters strongly support testing students, but not applying those results to teachers.
CHINA: Homeschooling reaches the locked-down country.
MISSOURI: Why Saint Louis's schoolkids don't belong to everyone.
HIGHER ED: Degree holders from top-tier universities don't necessarily earn more than those with less prestigious degrees, a study finds.
Tuesday's ed news
GERMANY: A posse of 20 social workers, police, and special agents storms a family’s home and removes their four children for the crime of homeschooling.
NCLB: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan attaches more strings to federal No Child Left Behind waivers, including a requirement that states redistribute good teachers.
WISCONSIN: Kids flock to extra seats in a new voucher program.
KENTUCKY: Hackers coordinate a cyberattack on student data systems through parent portals. Officials assure everyone there’s nothing to see here, although the motive for the attack is unknown.
HOMESCHOOL: The number of homeschoolers has increased, though not as fast in the past decade as the decade before, finds a new U.S. Department of Education report.
FLORIDA: Gov. Rick Scott meets behind closed doors to discusseducation reform with former Gov. Jeb Bush, angering parent activists.
CURSIVE: Why children need to learn it.
LOUISIANA: What Common Core looks like in one school, including watered-down math, discarding coin money, and de-emphasizing knowledge.
PRESCHOOL: A study finds state rating systems for government preschool don’t actually indicate better preschools.
INDIANA: The state establishes a panel to review school grades after a grade-fixing scandal.
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