EduClips: 3 out of 4 IL Kids Aren’t Ready for Kindergarten, State Data Show; TX Must Come Up With $3.2 Billion for Special Ed — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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Top Story
LITERACY — When Jamarria Hall strode into Osborn High in Detroit his freshman year, the signs of decay were everywhere: buckets in the hallways to catch leaking water, rotting ceiling tiles, vermin that crisscrossed classrooms.
In the neglected school, students never got textbooks to take home, and Hall and his classmates went long stretches — sometimes months — with substitute teachers who did little more than supervise students.
Hall was part of a class of Detroit Public Schools students who sued state officials in federal court, arguing that the state had violated their constitutional right to learn to read by providing inadequate resources. ()
National News
SCHOOL SAFETY — To Address School Shootings, U.S. Wants Students to Learn Bleeding-Control Techniques ()
#EDlection2018 — Troubled Student, Teen Mom, Teacher of the Year: Is Connecticut Congressional Candidate Jahana Hayes the New Face of the Democratic Party? (Read at The74Million.org)
EDUCATION ‘DESERTS’ — America’s Education ‘Deserts’ Show Limits of Relaxing Regulations on Colleges ()
District and State News
ILLINOIS — Three out of four Illinois kids aren’t ready for kindergarten. Why that’s a problem. ()
TEXAS — After Audit Finds TEA Shortchanged Kids, Texas Must Come Up With $3.2 Billion for Special Education ()
PUERTO RICO — Kids are back in school in Puerto Rico. But Hurricane Maria’s effects still linger ()
NEW YORK — Fair and objective or useless and biased? A Chalkbeat guide to the case for and against New York City’s specialized high school test ()
CALIFORNIA — New school year, new leaders; familiar and serious challenges for L.A. Unified ()
TEXAS — Texas Schools to Receive Letter Grades on Performance ()
CALIFORNIA — Gary Hart, author of California’s charter school law, reflects on its impact ()
NEVADA — EDITORIAL: Clark County School District begins calendar year with new leader ()
Think Pieces
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND — Pressuring schools to raise test scores got diminishing returns, new study of No Child Left Behind finds ()
CHARTERS — Charter schools want to share how they are helping more low-income students finish college ()
STUDENT JOURNALISM — Student Journalism in the Age of Media Distrust ()
CIVICS — How to Make a Civics Education Stick ()
DUNCAN — ‘How Schools Work’ Review: The Worm in the Apple ()
Quote of the Day
“The conditions and outcomes of Plaintiffs’ schools, as alleged, are nothing short of devastating. When a child who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting injury — and so does society. But the Court is faced with a discrete question: does the Due Process Clause demand that a State affirmatively provide each child with a defined, minimum level of education by which the child can attain literacy? The answer to the question is no.” —U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III, ruling in a case brought by Detroit students who argued that the state violated their constitutional right to read by providing inadequate resources. ()
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