EduClips: LAUSD Teachers to Cast Ballots This Week in Strike-Authorization Vote; Hurricane Lane Forces School Closures in Hawaii — 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
Note: EduClips will be taking a short break for the Labor Day holiday. Regular postings will resume Tuesday morning, September 4.
Top Story
#EDlection2018 — Watching to see if a “blue wave” helps Democrats take control of one chamber of Congress next year? Don’t expect a lot of education talk to wash up on shore.
Last week, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report worked with CMAG Kantar Media to study , as well as President Donald Trump, were mentioned in House and Senate campaign ads from the start of 2018 through July.
Mentioned by just 31,582 ads in 2018, education appeared in the second-fewest ads among the 11 issues and people Cook and CMAG Kantar studied. In fact, only House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got fewer mentions in ads. By contrast, more than five times as many ads mentioned health care as the number that mentioned education. ()
National News
‘SOFT SKILLS’ — Schools Should Teach (and Measure) ‘Soft Skills,’ Parents and Educators Agree ()
CHILD TRAUMA — Why a Boston Teachers College Is Sending Its Students to Northern Ireland to Learn About a Child Trauma Program That Could Help U.S. Kids, Too (Read at The74Million.org)
CHARTERS — 40 cities in 10 years: Leaked presentation offers more details on new group’s goals to spread charter (and charter-like) schools ()
District and State News
CALIFORNIA — LAUSD Teachers to Cast Ballots This Week in Strike-Authorization Vote ()
HAWAII — Hawaii school closures due to Hurricane Lane ()
ILLINOIS — CPS to Require Background Checks for All Volunteers After Sex Abuse Scandal ()
NEVADA — Teachers’ Union Recommends Local Districts Be Allowed to Raise Education Money ()
FLORIDA — Teachers Leaving Classroom Based Partly on Low Pay ()
CALIFORNIA — California school’s no-shame dress code empowers students to wear what they want ()
ILLINOIS — New Chicago Public Schools policies may bar students from texting teachers, coaches — and vice versa ()
NEW YORK — Hunter High School Is 9 Percent Black or Hispanic. Why Isn’t It Part of the Diversity Debate? ()
FLORIDA — Miami-Dade Superintendent: Time to Shift Away From ‘Necessary Obsession’ With Security, Focus on Teaching ()
TEXAS — Texas Education Agency Refuses to Monitor County’s Alternative Special Ed Schools Directly ()
NEW YORK — How an Elite New York City Prep School Created a Safe Space for Angry Zionists ()
TEXAS — More North Texas School Districts Turn to TRE for Funds ()
Think Pieces
KINDERGARTEN — Does ‘Redshirting’ Benefit Kids? Kindergarten Decision Looms ()
COMMON CORE — New Study Shows States That Veered From Common Core Adopted Weaker Academic Standards (Read at The74Million.org)
MINORITIES — Study: Minorities Labeled Learning Disabled Because of Social Inequalities ()
SCHOOL CHOICE — Public Opinion Shifts in Favor of School Choice ()
GATES — In Age of Trump, Bill Gates Uses Blog to Highlight Teacher Voice, Programs Helping Immigrant, Refugee Children (Read at The74Million.org)
Quote of the Day
“It was extremely re-traumatizing to me; and probably worse than the event itself was how poorly I was treated by CPS investigators, and how clear it was that there was such a lack of a system, or an outline, or anything.” —former Chicago Public Schools student and sex abuse survivor Morgan Aranda. ()
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