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Statement from Superintendent Woods “On the evening of February 22, all states received information from the U.S. Department of Education (USED) regarding assessment, accountability, and reporting requirements for the 2020-21 school year (that letter is linked here). The good news is that USED is inviting states...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The chairs of Pennsylvania's state Senate Education Committee on Wednesday asked the Biden administration to waive this year's requirement for school standardized testing because of the pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Williams, D-Allegheny, and Scott Martin, R-Lancaster, wrote in a letter that they understood the need to find out how much learning and...
California gubernatorial candidate Kevin Faulconer on Wednesday slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom for allowing schools to remain closed despite confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it’s generally safe for kids to return to classrooms. "Our elitist Gov. Gavin Newsom has sat idly by while he has crafted an education equality gap that...
DENVER (CBS4) – A new bill introduced in the Colorado state senate on Tuesday would ban the use of indigenous American mascots in the state. This ban would apply to all public schools in the state. (credit: CBS) If passed, any and all public schools in Colorado, including charter and public higher education institutions would be...
NORTH TEXAS (CBSNEWS.COM) – The Biden administration has announced that state education departments would have flexibility surrounding standardized testing this year, but would not have broad authority to cancel the examinations. (credit: CBSDFW.COM) The highly-anticipated policy decision is a reversal from the Trump administration, which widely allowed districts to cancel standardized testing in 2020 as...
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – With the 2021 legislative session set to begin next week, Florida lawmakers could further broaden the state’s school-choice landscape with what are called “education savings accounts.” Lawmakers are considering a far-reaching proposal (SB 48) that would expand eligibility for voucher programs and allow parents to use taxpayer-backed education savings accounts for private...
Rep. Fred UptonFrederick (Fred) Stephen UptonIs the 'civil war' in the Republican Party really over? Michigan GOP committee deadlocks on resolution to censure Meijer over impeachment vote The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - House boots Greene from committees; Senate plows ahead on budget MORE (R-Mich.) has been censured by Republicans in his...
GAVIN Williamson will be leading tonight's coronavirus press briefing (Wednesday February 24, 2021) live from Downing Street. The Education Secretary will update the nation on the Government's plan to see all children back in school from March 8 as part of Boris Johnson's roadmap to exiting lockdown. Here's what...
It took 10 years for Jamaal Muwwakkil, who grew up in Compton and was the first in his family to go to college, to navigate his way through the California community college system and ultimately transfer to UCLA. “I attended all the community colleges and worked all the jobs,” he said during a webinar...
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With her children struggling in many classes last spring, Kelli Rivera became so frustrated with how her suburban Atlanta district was handling the coronavirus pandemic that she withdrew them to home-school them. They're back in public school and mostly attending class in person. For now. Rivera is...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Board of Education is set to vote Wednesday on whether to require all Chicago Public Schools employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine or risk losing their jobs.The board's monthly virtual meeting is set to take place Wednesday morning, with a proposed policy that could require CPS to mandate the COVID-19...
GAVIN Williamson admitted on GMB today that he "deeply regrets" the government breaking the law over PPE contracts - after refusing to apologise 11 times. The Education Secretary finally caved in after repeatedly swerving an opportunity to say sorry to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid over last week's court ruling. ???? Read our coronavirus live blog for...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As positive coronavirus cases continue to drop in West Virginia, the state Board of Education said Tuesday that counties should return elementary and middle school students to in-class instruction five days per week. The board’s vote will eliminate blended schedules in which students have alternated between the classroom and home-based online...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The so-called “COVID slide” could be even worse after last week’s storms. Experts say the continued interruption of school could make our children’s learning loss even more pronounced. READ MORE: North Texas State Senator To Refile Past Bill Calling For Threat Assessment Of Texas Electric Grid It’s a concern for parents everywhere:...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The 2020-2021 school year and its challenges are unlike anything students have experienced before. Nevertheless, the federal Education Department released its guidelines mandating standardized testing. READ MORE: New Jersey Governor Outlines Plans To Address Pandemic’s Impact On Students, From Learning Loss To Mental Health CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez spoke with educators and...
The Biden administration announced Monday that state education departments would have flexibility surrounding standardized testing this year, but would not have broad authority to cancel those examinations. The highly-anticipated policy decision is a reversal from the Trump administration, which widely allowed districts to cancel standardized testing last year as the pandemic prompted widespread shifts to...
National and state teachers unions strongly condemned the Biden administration’s decision to prohibit states from canceling standardized tests. State officials can delay and conduct standardized testing remotely, but cannot cancel the testing altogether, the Department of Education wrote in a letter Monday. In response, teachers unions lashed out, arguing that such testing would be unreliable...
The Illinois State Board of Education is awaiting word on a request to waive Spring 2021 assessments across schools. State Superintendent Carmen Ayala sent a letter asking for the waiver on assessments, noting that over a million Illinois students are still receiving instruction through remote learning. According to the ISBE, less than 200 school...
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Gateway Education Association in the Gateway School District voted to authorize a strike. READ MORE: Pittsburgh City Controller: Snow Plow Tracker Technology To Blame For Untouched Roads The association says its teachers, counselors and nurses have been working under an expired contract since July 1 of...
The Education Department, in its first major decision under the Biden administration, told states that they will be granted significant flexibility in how and when they administer annual tests, but they will not be exempt from administering them – a blow to teachers unions who had been pushing the White House to release states from...
Massachusetts is aiming to have elementary school students back to on-campus learning five days a week by April. Jeffrey Riley, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, announced the new goal Tuesday during a Department of Education meeting, CBS Boston reports. Riley said he plans to request that the Board of Elementary...
California Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Xavier Becerra dodged a question on school reopenings during his Feb. 23 confirmation hearing. During the hearing, Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins pointed to “losses in academic achievement, literacy, social and emotional development” as a reason to press for school reopenings. She also referenced...
All public Massachusetts elementary school students may be back in class this April. On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey Riley made the announcement during a morning meeting. In a week or two, Riley said he will seek to obtain the authority to remove remote and hybrid learning as...
sturti | E+ | Getty Images Struggling student loan borrowers who own a business received some welcome news this week: They will no longer be excluded from the Paycheck Protection Program. Any business owned 20% or more by a borrower who had fallen behind on their payments previously could be determined ineligible for the government-subsidized...
The Education Department on Monday announced that standardized testing must occur this year, though it will allow states to delay testing or apply for certain exemptions. In a letter to chief state education officers, Acting Assistant Education Secretary Ian Rosenblum wrote that testing is essential to measure the effects the pandemic has had on students’ progress. ...
BOSTON (CBS) – Governor Charlie Baker will hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon about COVID and schools in Massachusetts. You can watch it live at 2 p.m. on CBSN Boston in the video above. Baker will be joined at the press conference by Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Sec. of Education James Peyser and Department of...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – When Black History Month first began, the goal was to shine a light on the stories and history that are so often forgotten, people glossed over in school lessons and left out of history books. One Philadelphia woman has made it her life’s mission to change that, educating tens of thousands along...
The education of children in the world is threatened by COVID-19, according to the World Bank Child labor is a monster with 1,000 heads, global, but one that is deeply rooted in Mexico. In rural areas there is a higher incidence of children and adolescents working in unworthy conditions. Also, there...
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (BCN/CBS SF) — On Monday, Santa Cruz County health officials extended COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to residents in several occupations now that more than half of the county’s residents age 65 and older have received at least one dose. Education and childcare, emergency services and food and agriculture workers are all now eligible...
By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer The Education Department said Monday that it will not allow states to forgo federally required standardized testing in schools this year but will give them flexibility to delay testing or hold it online during the pandemic. Aiming for a middle ground in a polarized debate, the Biden administration said...
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A state Senate committee is advancing a bill that would broaden eligibility for a Georgia program that pays for special education students to attend private schools. The Senate Education and Youth Committee voted 6-5 on Monday to pass Senate Bill 47, sending it to the full Senate...
By IRIS SAMUELS, Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Senate voted Monday to advance a bill that would allow parents of public school students to opt out of sex education and would ban abortion providers from offering information in schools. Under the bill, schools would be required to inform parents or...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO, AP/Report for America SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — It may be one of the toughest job in Santa Fe. As the assistant secretary for Indian Education, Lashawna Tso is Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's educational liaison to the state’s 23 tribal governments and federal agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Education. Her role...
The Conversation Spain This is the pedagogy (still very unknown) that serves to teach culturally diverse students Shutterstock / Lorelyn Medina Culturally Relevant Education (ECR) is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including the cultural legacies of students in all aspects of learning. It is a little or no known approach and constitutes an...
Table of Contents Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Here are the best WFH products for college students of 2021 The best desks The best office chairs The best laptops The best school notebooks ...
The San Francisco Board of Education is abandoning its plan to rename schools named after historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington until students and teachers are able to return to the classroom, board Commissioner Gabriela Lopez said on Sunday night. "I also acknowledge and take responsibility for mistakes made in the building renaming...
Fernando Damien Mexico City / 02.21.2021 09:52:26 Ricardo Monreal, Morena coordinator in the Senate, will present a bill to strengthen mechanisms for the prevention of violence against women given the exacerbation of this problem during the covid-19 pandemic. “It is especially necessary to adapt legislative measures as a response to the crisis that...
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and FP recommend that the Natural ventilation, that is, the opening of doors and windows in educational centers, in order to avoid the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, is now done “permanently”. This is one of the changes that both ministries have introduced in the document on...
Orange County this week will start setting aside doses of COVID-19 vaccine for workers in education, child care and food and agriculture, officials said. The county plans to dedicate 30% of its vaccine allocation to workers in those sectors, as well as to those in emergency services. The remaining 70% will go to residents...
BOSTON (CBS) – Massachusetts Sec. of Education Jim Peyser said the process of getting students back in school is not moving fast enough, but he hopes a new testing program being expanded by the state will help more children return to the classroom. “The first priority has to be to bring as many students as...
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there is a “communist takeover” of large swaths of Britain’s private education sector, as an investigation has revealed that schools throughout the country have been bought out by firms connected to the Chinese government. There are currently 17 private schools in the United Kingdom owned by Chinese firms,...
OAKLAND (KPIX) — When the federal government opened its mass vaccination clinic at the Oakland Coliseum, it also included a couple of mobile units to target areas of special need. Saturday, the focus was on getting schools reopened. The vaccination clinic at the Alameda County Office of Education in Hayward was held specifically for employees...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The president of Penn State University has announced plans to retire at the end of his current contract, which runs through June of next year, and a phased approach to finding his replacement is set to begin this spring. President Eric Barron, who announced his plans to university trustees Friday,...
By ANITA SNOW and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Peniella Irakoze is cold calling a list of 1,001 fellow students who didn’t return to Phoenix College this semester, checking on how they’re managing during the coronavirus pandemic. The calls have become a regular part of her job at a community college like others...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine has been granted full accreditation in the U.S., campus and state university administrators announced Friday. Recognition by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education completed a process that began in 2016, before the charter class of students arrived at the school in July...
BORIS Johnson could reshuffle his Cabinet as soon as May, The Sun can reveal. The Prime Minister is being urged by allies to rejig his top team after the local elections. 5Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove could become Health Secretary, under a scenario discussed in No10Credit: Reuters It would coincide with a major...
PROFESSOR Chris Whitty is reportedly "very unhappy" with Boris Johnson’s plans to open all schools in a "big bang" The chief medical officer for England was said to be reluctant to personally get behind the policy this week. ???? Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates... 5Chief Medical Officer Professor...
Education officials from four western states and Alaska sent a letter to President Joe Biden this week to point out that banning oil and gas leases on federal lands not only hurts economies but takes away vital funding for schools. The letter begins by pointing out that while it may seem unusual to hear from...
IXL recently recognized its Elite 100 teachers. These educators were selected as top teachers based on their students’ time spent on IXL. With more than 700,000 teachers using IXL worldwide, the Elite 100 truly stand out for their innovation, creativity, and passion in motivating their...
Im Not A Mandate Guy: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Disagrees With CDC Director On COVID-19 Restrictions, Wants ERCOT Head To Resign