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Jefferson district bid-rigging investigations, Orange board’s LGBTQ+ proclamation, book bans, scholarships for disabled, and more
Get smart fast, vol. 11
Broken habits Chalkbeat goes inside a Chicago classroom to show learning has not returned to normal. [I]nside Nikhil Bhatia’s classroom, the evidence was on the whiteboard, where the math teacher was shading in slices of a pie to illustrate how to find a common denominator. That day, his seventh graders were working to add and… Read more »
Pay hikes, school replacements, National Blue Ribbon honors, transportation changes and more
Broward: School employees here will be soon receiving bigger paychecks after the school board approved an agreement with workers unions. Under the deal, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, police officers and other school support staff will be paid 5.5% more, at least for the next four years. That’s after the county’s voters passed a tax referendum in… Read more »
Mixed results for Florida colleges in latest annual rankings, LGBTQ+ month a go in Palm Beach County, politics and school choice, and more
Yes, parents can be the deciders and yes, there are safeguards
A recent article in the Tampa Bay Times dissected parents’ uses of Florida’s education choice scholarships, including some unconventional uses of funding, like large-screen TVs. While the article quoted supporters of the program and defenders of parents’ choices, it did not feature the most important perspective: That of parents using the scholarships. One scholarship parent, David… Read more »
State suspends distribution of ideological surveys to colleges, districts rip DOE’s communication, more scholarship details requested, and more
Pain, stress and public education’s return to normal
If I had to choose one word to summarize the problems facing public education since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be homeostasis. When living organism face change or stress, they seek to return, as quickly as possible, to their previous baseline. At every stage of the crisis that began in spring of… Read more »