Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-10-14/education/challenging-charters-profits-from-students-with-disabilities/a54470-1 October 14, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Charter schools often collect $10,000 more than they spend on a student with disabilities, according to the Pennsylvania School Board Assn. (Dscot018/Wikimedia … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): We are hearing rumblings that lawmakers may be planning to move terrible charter legislation we had hoped they had abandoned, HB 530, out of committee. It would then only need a vote in the House … Continued
The Atlantic “The stress of racial discrimination may partly explain the persistent gaps in academic performance between some nonwhite students, mainly black and Latino youth, and their white counterparts … Physiological response to race-based stressors … leads the body to … Continued
Posted at http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/09/27/report-there-are-too-few-school-counselors-for-traumatized-black-children-but-plenty-of-punishment/ Atlanta Black Star “Black and brown children, who are most likely to live with trauma, run a much greater risk of facing harsh punishment and school discipline rather than receiving the crucial mental health counseling they need … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-10-06/education/teachers-now-is-the-time-to-reexamine-testing-in-pa-schools/a54351-1 October 6, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window HARRISBURG, Pa. — The latest school-level scores on statewide standardized tests show some improvement over 2015, but education advocates in Pennsylvania caution … Continued
From Americans United for Separation of Church and State (http://www.au.org): For decades, Americans United has worked to support that principle – taxpayer dollars should go only to public schools that welcome all students, not sectarian institutions that serve only children … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/u-s-dept-of-educations-own-inspector-again-condemns-does-oversight-of-charter-school-grants/ You may not be aware that the U.S. Department of Education—under President Barack Obama’s appointees, Arne Duncan and John King—has been awarding billions of dollars to promote the growth of charter schools across the states. Even less … Continued
The Huffington Post “New research … shows that preschool teachers respond to their black and white students differently. Implicit biases – or unconscious stereotypes – might be at the root of these differences … The first half of the study … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/social-impact-bonds-pay-for-success-yet-another-form-of-privatization/ For those of us who know more about public education than Wall Street investment schemes, Valerie Strauss and Kenneth Saltman (education writer and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) did us a favor last week. In … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/please-read-this-penetrating-indictment-of-the-every-student-succeeds-act/ Participating earlier this week in one of the Ohio Department of Education’s stakeholder meetings about the plan Ohio will be developing to submit to the U.S. Department of Education to comply with the new Every Student Succeeds … Continued