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Apr 10 2024
News
Department of Education anticipates critical need for teachers next school year
The projections are so widespread Maine could qualify for emergency hiring rules as the need varies across all age levels. WESTBROOK, Maine — The school year isn't even over, but the Department of Education is already preparing for critical teacher shortages for next year. The projections are so widespread Maine could qualify for emergency hiring rules. The need for teachers spreads across all
News Center MaineApr 02 2024
Opinion
The push for bilingual education will doom migrant kids to failure
New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school.
Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure.
All too often it’s an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can’t speak English and face a lifetime of poverty.
Non-English-speaking students should be given intense
New York Post (Opinion)Apr 13 2024
News
Democrats raise concerns about rules adopted by Oklahoma State Department of Education
OKLAHOMA CITY — Recent rules adopted by the Oklahoma State Department of Education are “void” and “unenforceable,” Democratic lawmakers say. Democrats from the House of Representatives and the Senate held a press conference Thursday to address their concerns about the way Superintendent Ryan Walters is running OSDE, particularly around the creation of rules that Democrats claimed go beyond the
Tulsa WorldApr 16 2024
News
Bill upping disclosure of Kentucky educator sexual misconduct fails to pass despite support
A bill that would require more disclosure of teacher sexual misconduct, ban nondisclosure agreements and require teachers to tell prospective employees about prior investigations of misconduct failed to pass the Kentucky General Assembly despite unanimous support. House Bill 275, a sweeping educator sexual misconduct bill, would help stop a “revolving door of sexual predators” in our schools,
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 18 2024
News
YouTube star Ms. Rachel blasts New York Mayor Eric Adams for cuts to education
An internet sensation known for her soft-spoken children’s videos slammed New York Mayor Eric Adams for seismic cuts to young children’s education since he took office. Rachel Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, released a TikTok criticizing the city’s significant cuts to education and said she will be going to Washington to advocate childcare. “I want to be the best advocate I can for families with
Washington ExaminerApr 01 2024
News
TPS considering relocating special education transition program
Tulsa Public Schools officials are considering moving a growing special education program to a northeast Tulsa campus that has not housed students since the Ronald Reagan administration. At Monday night’s meeting, the school board tabled a pair of agenda items that would allocate $2 million in bond funds and $2 million in federal funds to renovate the former Ross Elementary School, 8934 E.
Tulsa WorldApr 12 2024
News
Confirmation looming, GOP senators voice support for presumed KY education commissioner
Kentucky Senate Education Committee members, many of them Republicans, showed support Friday for the commissioner of education nominee as he prepares for the first Senate confirmation for that post. Several lawmakers said they had received many positive endorsements of Lawrence County Superintendent Robbie Fletcher, and he would have their vote on the Senate floor when a resolution supporting
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 09 2024
News
Listen: Why a longtime education advocate said goodbye at Sine Die
After six sessions under the Gold Dome, a longtime education advocate, Stephen Owens, says he’s had enough. Owens is stepping down from his role at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports increased funding for education. The outgoing education director told “Politically Georgia” on Tuesday about his next steps. “I am now the director of policy and
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionApr 12 2024
News
5,000 North Shore educators demonstrate to demand paid parental leave
Over 5,000 educators from 11 school districts along the North Shore worked together to coordinate demonstrations over the course of a week to raise awareness to calls for paid family leave. “We are happy to come to work and take care of other children,” said Rebecca Burke, a special education coordinator at Rumney Marsh Academy in Revere and expecting mom. “We should be able to have the
Boston HeraldApr 05 2024
News
University of Michigan students ‘empower’ Jackson renters in educational event
JACKSON, MI - Derry Petty has lived in his current apartment near Jackson’s west side for nine years, and he’s still learning new things about what it means to be a renter. Petty, 50, was one of several Jackson-area residents to attend a “tenant education event” Thursday, April 4, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center. Running just under an hour, the presentation was hosted by a
MLive.com