EduClips: Post-Parkland, Broward County Had No Armed Guards at Summer School; New LAUSD Chief Lays Out Vision For School Leaders — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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Top Story
SCOTUS — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, in a speech last year, gave a strong hint at his views on taxpayer support for religious schools when he praised his “first judicial hero,” Justice William Rehnquist, for determining that the strict wall between church and state “was wrong as a matter of law and history.”
Mr. Rehnquist’s legacy on religious issues was most profound in “ensuring that religious schools and religious institutions could participate as equals in society and in state benefits programs,” Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, , a conservative research organization.
Words like that from a Supreme Court nominee are breathing new life into the debate over public funding for sectarian education. Educators see him as crucial to answering a question left by Justice Kennedy after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for the state of Missouri to exclude a church-based preschool from competing for public funding to upgrade its playground: Can a church-school playground pave the way for taxpayer funding to flow to private and parochial schools for almost any purpose? ()
National News
MINORITIES — The State of America’s Student-Teacher Racial Gap: Our Public School System Has Been Majority-Minority for Years, but 80 Percent of Teachers Are Still White (Read at The74Million.org)
OMAROSA — Omarosa Book: Trump Derided Betsy DeVos, Said He’d ‘Get Rid of Her’ ()
WISCONSIN — Wisconsin Democrats Will Run on Education Against Gov. Scott Walker ()
CHARTERS — Most New Charter Schools Were Actually Approved by School Districts. That’s Changing. ()
District and State News
FLORIDA — Despite urgent focus on security, Broward had no armed guards at summer school sites ()
CALIFORNIA — Fewer Emails, More Power: L.A.’s New Schools Chief Lays Out Back-to-School Vision for District Leaders (Read at The74Million.org)
NEW YORK — New data show how few black and Hispanic students benefit from New York City’s specialized high school diversity program ()
TEXAS — U.S. education chief Betsy DeVos pledges $174M to Texas schools disrupted by Harvey ()
CALIFORNIA — Focusing can be hard for kids when going back to school in the summer means hot classrooms ()
ILLINOIS — District 113 scrambles to remediate mold at Highland Park High School before school starts ()
FLORIDA — First Amendment arguments rejected in Florida charter school case ()
GEORGIA — Are teachers on board as Gwinnett rolls out merit pay? ()
NEW YORK — Cuomo’s re-election bid gets boost from charter schools’ big ()
TEXAS — Letter Grades for Texas School Districts Released Wednesday ()
NEVADA — New plan for education: Repeat the old plan ()
Think Pieces
SCHOOL SAFETY — Do metal detectors and X-ray machines belong in schools? ()
CHARTERS — Richmond: Why School Districts Are Walking Away From Authorizing New Charter Schools — and Why That’s Both a Bad and a Good Thing (Read at The74Million.org)
CELL PHONES — Parental debate: Should your kid have a cellphone in school? ()
Quote of the Day
“If we’re serious about educational equity, it seems to me that we need to get past religion in schools as a nonstarter.” —Dale Chu, a fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, on his hopes that Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, will help clear the way for greater taxpayer support of religious schools. ()
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