EduClips: How DeVos’s Civil Rights Policy Affected Shutdown of Texas Schools’ Probe; AZ Teacher Walkout Scheduled for Thursday — 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
ARIZONA STRIKE — Arizona teachers voted last week to go on strike this Thursday, making the state the fourth this year to host teacher protests in support of increased pay. The state’s union, and organizers of a Facebook group where rank-and-file teachers have been posting, announced the results of a vote at a joint press conference in Phoenix. Seventy-eight percent of teachers who cast ballots supported the protest, they said.
The teachers are asking for 20 percent pay raises and increases in state education funding, which hasn’t returned to pre-recession levels. ()
National News
NATIONAL WALKOUT — Delaying College, Getting Out the Vote: As They Stage Another National Walkout Over Gun Violence, Students Look to Movement’s Sustainability (Read at The74Million.org)
TEACHER DEBT — Teachers Share Anger, Frustration Over Grants Turned Into Loans ()
MILITARY FAMILIES — How Congress Could Give School Choice to Military Kids Without an Impact Aid Uproar ()
TEACHER OF THE YEAR — 2018 Teacher of the Year Wants Her Refugee Students to Know They Are Wanted and Loved, to Give All Students and Teachers the Chance to Connect (Read at The74Million.org)
ALABAMA — Alabama Board Taps Superintendents’ Group Leader as Next State Chief ()
District and State News
TEXAS — Shutdown of Texas Schools Probe Shows Trump Administration Pullback on Civil Rights ()
NEW YORK — Students attacked, threatened thousands of school employees last year ()
TEXAS — Texas school apologizes for asking students to list ‘positive aspects’ of slavery ()
FLORDIA — After months, no action on Hillsborough’s substitute teacher problem ()
NEW YORK — City Council wants $100M to put security cameras in all schools ()
NEVADA — North Las Vegas school asks special education students to stay home ()
CALIFORNIA — Why deep-pocketed charter school advocates are pouring money into the governor’s race ()
NEVADA — Opinion: State must look within to solve its education problem ()
CALIFORNIA — LA School Report to Partner With California Children’s Organizations for May 15 Gubernatorial Forum on Education, Equity, Juvenile Justice (Read at The74Million.org)
Think Pieces
CHARTER SCHOOLS — Do charter schools suspend students more? It depends on how you look at the data. ()
OKLAHOMA TEACHER STRIKE — Oklahoma’s Teacher Walkout: How Did Something That Started So Right End So Wrong? (Read at The74Million.org)
4-DAY SCHOOL WEEK — The 4-Day School Week Gets Introduced to Cities and Suburbs ()
TEACHER RETIREMENT — Why More Than a Million Teachers Can’t Use Social Security ()
SCHOOL SAFETY — STUDENT VOICE: ‘The youth movement extends beyond gun violence’ ()
Quote of the Day
“For the kids who are being ticketed, arrested, suspended or expelled — who are predominantly black — it tells them that they don’t belong in our public schools, which is a travesty. For the students that remain in the classroom and see their peers treated this way, they internalize unhealthy and harmful messages about what that means. That’s the way that implicit bias is formed and gets reinforced.” —Deborah Fowler, executive director of Texas Appleseed, a social justice advocacy group. ()
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