July 21, 2016

Delaware News

Delaware 105.9
Delaware Design-Lab High School to add classrooms and students
A local charter school celebrates its first year while also looking forward to bigger and better things. The Delaware Design-Lab High School which housed 9th and 10th graders in its first year, breaks ground on a new classroom annex that will be completed in time for the school year.

The Harrington Journal
Get to know the town: Clifford Owens
Clifford Owens is beginning his second year as principal for Lake Forest South Elementary School this year after a varied career from law enforcement to teaching special needs students. Read more to get a closer glimpse at this community helper.

WDEL
A.I. duPont High School sophomores place 3rd in nat’l technology competition
When teens John Lawson and Luke Marshall look at houses, roads, and bridges, they see so much more than the average human eye. Marshall thinks of structural integrity or with what it’s been created, over whether it’s nice or large. “Sometimes your CAD kicks in you look at a house and you’re like, ‘Oh snap, I wonder how they built that,’ or, like, what it would look like in CAD,” said Marshall.

National News

NPR
Here’s An Idea: Change the Federal Definition of Student Achievement
Morgan Polikoff has a modest proposal. The associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education has been looking over the new federal education law. He thinks the Department of Education should abandon what has been the central principle of school accountability for the last decade and a half.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
More US schools accused of denying education to immigrants
Civil rights lawyers have sued a third U.S. school district over what they call a practice of denying older refugee and immigrant students a meaningful education by steering them to alternative high schools. The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania are refugees ages 17 to 21 who came to the U.S. from Myanmar, Sudan and other war-torn countries.

Campus Technology
Penn State Launches Center for Research of Education Inequity
Inequities permeate the American educational experience. Students come from poor families; their teachers aren’t as well trained or their schools aren’t as well outfitted; they lack access to technology or regular meals. A new center at Penn State will become a repository for data and research on the topic of inequity and the go-to source for evaluating programs and policies intended to address the disparities in order to identify those that have the best impact.

NJ.com
Christie: Give all school districts same amount of aid, provide some towns property tax relief
In a proposal that would drastically overhaul New Jersey’s school funding system, Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday outlined a plan which would give every school district the exact same amount of state aid per student.  Christie, in a speech at Hillsborough High School, introduced the “Fairness Formula,” which would provide $6,599 per student for each district, a proposal he said would significantly reduce aid to urban districts while lowering property taxes in many suburban towns.

The Warner Cable News
Report: State Learning Standards Likely to be Similar to Common Core
New learning standards are being developed for New York schools, but don’t expect them to be much different than the Common Core standards they’re replacing. The New York School Boards Association released a report Tuesday saying standards the state ultimately adopts likely won’t be much different than Common Core.