July 19, 2017

July 19th, 2017

Category: News

Delaware News

Department of Education
Governor Carney Directs DOE to Create Regulation, Model Policy to Prevent Discrimination in Schools
Governor John Carney announced on Tuesday that he has directed the Delaware Department of Education to develop specific guidelines – by regulation – for school districts and charter schools to use in developing policies that prohibit discrimination against students. The guidelines will help districts and charters create consistent policies statewide that prohibit discrimination based on gender, race, and/or ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.

The News Journal
Award-winning author speaks at Brandywine school
Robert Peace was the kind of student most teachers dream about. Born outside Newark, New Jersey, to an unwed mother who worked long hours to send him to a private Catholic high school, he was intellectually gifted. He worked hard and got a 4.0 GPA, impressing Delaware bank executive Charles Cawley so much that he paid for him to go to Yale University, where Peace majored in molecular biophysics and biochemistry.

WBOC
Delaware Attorney General: Milford Schools Violated FOIA
Delaware’s attorney general has ruled that a local school board violated the Freedom of Information Act. State Attorney General Matt Denn’s office ruled the Milford School Board violated FOIA when it failed to include a vote for the 2017 tax rate on its original June 2016 meeting agenda.

National News

Education Week
Thousands of English-learners fall short on test of language skills
A change to how a widely used English-proficiency test is scored has led to thousands of students being retained in English-language-learner classes and created budgeting and staffing challenges for some school districts. The change has rattled educators in states with an established English-learner student body, such as Nevada; those with fast-growing populations, such as Tennessee; and even states, such as Maine, that have a relatively small percentage of students who don’t yet communicate fluently in English.

Governing
How to beat teacher burnout: With more education
When mathematician John Ewing started lobbying state governments to adopt a new model for keeping top teachers in the classroom, he anticipated all the usual pushback over funding and resources. One thing he didn’t anticipate was a resistance to the idea in general. In education right now, “the focus is on everything that’s not working,” he says.

Miami Herald
Does public education in Florida get a passing grade? Appeals court to decide
The Florida Constitution requires the state to provide “a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools” — but is that general standard something that can be measured? That’s what an appeals court in Tallahassee will decide in the latest round of a long-standing battle over whether the Legislature, state Board of Education and the Florida Department of Education are fulfilling their constitutional obligations for 2.8 million children in the state’s public schools.

NPR
When black hair violates the dress code
Raising teenage girls can be a tough job. Raising black teenage girls as white parents can be even tougher. Aaron and Colleen Cook knew that when they adopted their twin daughters, Mya and Deanna. As spring came around this year, the girls, who just turned 16, told their parents they wanted to get braided hair extensions.

The Hechinger Report
Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money
When 18-year-old Karolina Espinosa looks back to her freshman year at Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School, graduation seemed like a long shot. “At the time,” she said, “both of my parents were incarcerated. I had trouble with reading, and I had problems with attendance.” But in May, sitting in the office of her school’s family support specialist, Joell Stubbe, Karolina talked excitedly about going to Buffalo State University, where she’s been accepted into the class of 2021.




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