EduClips: Chicago Schools’ Fingerprinting Requirements Scaring Away Undocumented Parents; Study: CA Children Enter School Unprepared and Never Catch Up — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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Top Story
NYC INVESTIGATION — Seventy-five tenured teachers found guilty of abuse or incompetence — many of them male, veteran educators assigned to struggling New York City schools — were fired over 16 months in 2015 and 2016, an analysis of disciplinary records obtained by The 74 has found.
Educators were terminated for choking students, publicly taunting children who couldn’t read, and, in the case of one Brooklyn technology teacher in 2011, threatening to “shoot up everyone” at a school. But the majority were found by their schools to be inadequate as instructors.
Department of Education lawyers prosecuted 154 schoolteachers in all during this period — a tiny fraction of the city’s 58,000 school staff with tenure. For critics, the total suggests that many who are unfit have been allowed to remain in classrooms. Others believe relatively few teachers merit termination. (Read at The74Million.org)
National News
ESSA — Betsy DeVos Reopens Application Process for ESSA’s Innovative Assessment Pilot ()
SCHOOL SECURITY — Light, Stylish … and Bulletproof: A Look at the Post-Parkland Marketing of Security-Conscious School Supplies (Read at The74Million.org)
DEVOS — DeVos’s Strong Words on Suppression of Speech, State of Civics Education ()
District and State News
ILLINOIS — How Chicago schools’ fingerprinting requirements are scaring away undocumented parents ()
CALIFORNIA — California children enter school unprepared and never catch up, landmark research finds ()
FLORIDA — You asked: Should charter schools be allowed to hire teachers who are not certified? ()
PUERTO RICO — Puerto Rican students still without power at school one year after Hurricane Maria ()
NEW YORK — Regents support a new way of evaluating charter schools and soften penalties for schools with high opt-out rates ()
FLORIDA — Watchdog group slams state leaders for using public funds for charter schools ()
CALIFORNIA — Spending on California schools chief race expected to set records again ()
NEVADA — Parents may have say in future of Clark County’s failing schools ()
NEW YORK — Rise & Shine: No ABCs but the education is “more than adequate”: What New York city parents have to say about one yeshiva ()
HAWAII — Hawaii high school students tapped to fill medical assistant shortage ()
Think Pieces
SCHOOL CALENDAR — Think year-round school calendars increase achievement? Think again. ()
VOUCHERS — The voucher program we really need is not for school — it’s for after ()
HOMESCHOOLING — Nunes: The Pros and Cons of Homeschooling a Child With Special Needs — and Some Resources That Can Help (Read at The74Million.org)
DIVERSITY — OPINION: Making campus diversity real — starting in kindergarten ()
Quote of the Day
“You get really egregious behavior because the steps to be taken for dismissal are just so lengthy, so expensive, and so rarely successful that most principals are reluctant to even initiate the process. The challenge and problem is that before they had tenure and due process, teachers were treated badly in terms of hiring, firing, sexism, racism — you name it.” —Patrick McGuinn, a professor of political science and education at Drew University, on the difficulty of firing teachers in the New York City schools. (Read at The74Million.org)
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