EduClips: Chicago Special Ed Students Face ‘Cycle of Chaos’; NYC Girls Schools to Admit Transgender Students — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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EduClips is a roundup of the day’s top education headlines from America’s largest school districts, where more than 4 million students across eight states attend class every day. Read previous EduClips installments here. Get the day’s top school and policy news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up for the
Top Story
TEACHERS — Nearly 1 in 5 public school teachers have second jobs during the school year, a new analysis of federal data shows.
Half of teachers with second jobs are working in a field outside of education, while 5 percent of teachers are taking on a second teaching or tutoring job outside of their school districts. And 4 percent of teachers have a job that is not teaching, but is still related to the teaching field.
Across the country, teachers who work a second job earn an average of $5,100 to supplement their incomes. And teachers who moonlight in a non-education field earn about $1,000 more on average than teachers who work a second job related to teaching — $5,500 compared to $4,500. ()
National News
ELECTIONS — From the Schoolhouse to the State House: These 7 Teachers Are Running for Office to Say ‘No More’ to Slashed Education Funding (Read at The74Million.org)
ELLS — If DeVos Scraps the Federal Office for ELLs, Would It Matter? ()
SCHOOL SAFETY — ‘I want to be able to protect them’: After Parkland, some teachers turn to firearm training ()
FLIPGRID — Microsoft is buying education start-up Flipgrid, bolstering Google rivalry ()
BROAD PRIZE — DSST Public Schools Wins the 2018 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, Will Soon Serve One-Fourth of Denver’s Middle & High Schoolers (Read at The74Million.org)*
District and State News
ILLINOIS — CPS students denied special education services amid ‘cycle of chaos,’ parents say ()
NEW YORK — New York’s Elite Girls Schools Are Starting to Admit Transgender Students ()
VIRGINIA — Richmond school drops Confederate name in favor of Barack Obama ()
PENNSYLVANIA — ‘Enough is enough’: Philly school unions boiling over assaults on staff ()
NEW YORK — More bullying reported at New York City schools, study shows ()
CALIFORNIA — Advocates: California’s school budget still leaves rising special education costs to districts ()
ILLINOIS — New state budget boosts early childhood education funding ()
TEXAS — Texas Senate panel conducts hearings on school violence, safety ()
CALIFORNIA — California Schools Seek Rollback to Disclosure Law on Bond Votes ()
Think Pieces
TEACHERS UNIONS — After Janus: A new era of teacher’s union activism ()
MILLENNIALS — Public Schools for a New Generation: 5 Reasons Why Millennials Will Bend the Arc of American Education (Read at The74Million.org)
AP COURSES — Our schools will get rid of AP courses. Here’s why. ()
EDUCATION RESEARCH — The Snares And Delusions of Education Research ()
BUSING — The route school buses can take toward racial equity ()
AP HISTORY — Teachers protest against changes to a high-school history course ()
SUMMER PROGRAMS — Summer learning programs are too expensive for many of Mississippi’s kids ()
Quote of the Day
“Working two jobs and trying to maintain a balance with teaching, it does take a toll, especially when you have a family.” —Joe Reid, until recently a middle school language arts teacher in Hebron, Ind. ()
*Disclosure: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Walton Family Foundation have provided funding to both DSST and The 74; the Walton Family Foundation also provides financial support to the Century Foundation’s project on charter school diversity. The 74 also receives funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which funds the Broad prize.
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