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The News Journal
Survey: Little guidance on social-emotional learning in Delaware
A majority of teachers in Delaware agree they should be teaching students more than reading and writing, but say programs meant to improve students’ social and emotional growth aren’t always as effective as they’re touted to be, a new survey by the Rodel Teacher Council shows.
WDEL
Delaware budget writers halt work amid concerns about cuts
Democratic House and Senate leaders have told the legislature’s budget-writing committee to halt its work amid concerns about spending cuts the panel has approved. The move came one day after the committee agreed upon about $30 million in cuts affecting a broad spectrum of agencies and programs, with roughly half of the cuts involving education.
Dover Post
Representatives celebrate $1.4M in AmeriCorps funding
Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Rep. Lisa Blunt-Rochester announced Delaware has received $1.4 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency for volunteering and service programs. CNCS will provide up to $588,915 in education scholarships for the AmeriCorps members funded by these grants to help pay for college, vocational training, or pay back student loans.
National News
Education Week
Ark. students get early start on career planning
Erika Faircloth is only 14, but the high hopes of Arkansas leaders are riding on her shoulders. That’s because the 8th grader skipped class on a rainy spring day to get a glimpse of her future. Erika spent the day at a local veterinary office, watching intently as the vet and her technicians spayed a tabby cat and cleaned a golden doodle’s teeth. Nearly all of Erika’s 8th grade classmates at Wynne Junior High School participated in this “job shadow” day, too. In this small eastern Arkansas town, they fanned out to drug stores, medical suites, banks, lumber yards, soybean farms, police headquarters.
The Hechinger Report
Why is it so hard to stop suspending kindergarteners?
One Connecticut elementary school in which suspensions have dropped into the single-digits is the Robert J. O’Brien STEM Academy in East Hartford. Five years ago, O’Brien reported 194 suspensions, including nearly 32 kindergarten suspensions. This year, with one month left before summer break, the school had just six suspensions, none of which involved kindergarteners. This sea change in discipline came about via a transformative cocktail of state-allocated money, district guidance, staff training and time.
Inside Higher Ed
Double-edged sword of dual enrollment
For community colleges, high school students are a growing population to serve, but some fear a lack of financial base for the programs amid fears they may be masking large declines in other enrollments.
Chalkbeat Colorado
How limited transportation undermines school choice — even in Denver, where an innovative shuttle system has drawn Betsy DeVos’s praise
Six years after Denver Public Schools created an innovative bus shuttle system to help get students to school, the effort has expanded and evolved but the larger problem it sought to fix remains. The system, called the Success Express, was introduced in 2011 in northeast Denver with the goal of helping families choose high-quality schools as the district was changing the choice process and overhauling low-performing schools in the far northeast part of the city. |
