May 3, 2017
Delaware News
Newsworks
Wilmington mayor marks Charter Schools Week with school visit
Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki visited one of Wilmington’s 11 charter schools to see how students are connected to the city. You may have seen the kindergartners heading to dance class at the Grand on Market Street or maybe you’ve seen older students heading to the Wilmington Library, the New Castle County Courthouse, or the Playhouse Theater.
The News Journal
School enrichment programs awarded state grants
The Delaware Department of Education has awarded five new 21st Century Community Learning Center program grants under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. The 21st CCLC programs are designed to provide students with academic enrichment activities to improve the academic success of students from Title I schools.
Howard High wins Hermes Award
An effort to brand a new student leadership program at Howard High School of Technology was recently recognized with a prestigious award from the national Hermes Creative Awards group. iLead, Inspiring Leadership Education and Development, received the 2017 Gold Award for excellence. Selected from among 6,000 entries, the iLEAD initiative was honored for its imaginative use of social media, display materials incorporating actual Howard student images and quotes, workshop productions and videos.
Georgetown Middle teachers fight to keep their principal
Georgetown Middle School staff are concerned about the consequences of moving their principal to a different school. At a recent Indian River Board of Education meeting, Angela Wilson, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at the school, read a letter composed by 48 members of the Georgetown Middle School staff, detailing their complaints about the possible moving of Georgetown Middle Principal Michael Williams.
National News
CBS
Nationwide effort to stop bullying in schools beginning to pay off, study shows
There’s been a nationwide effort recently to stop bullying in schools, and a new study shows it’s beginning to pay off. The morning announcements at Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, start with a heavy dose of pride. “Good morning staff and students … and as always, I hope the Lions are ready to roar,” the school principal is heard saying in a video.
Education Week
Early results in California’s CORE districts give lessons for ESSA
As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work. Researchers and district officials discussed the first evaluations of the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, consortium of districts at the American Association of Educational Research conference here this weekend.
The Charlotte Observer
Wisconsin Assembly OKs education plan bill
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would inject the Legislature into the writing of a school accountability plan. The proposal comes after the state Department of Public Instruction released a draft school accountability plan on Friday. Every state is required to submit one to the federal government by Sept. 18. Wisconsin’s plan calls for cutting the achievement and graduation gaps in half within six years.
U.S. News & World Report
Data wars: In education, data are often viewed as a risk, not an opportunity
Opinion by Andrew Rotherham, co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education
Seventeen years ago, a few minutes after midnight on May 2, 2000, the United States government ended a policy of intentionally degrading GPS signals or making them “selectively available” to almost anyone except military applications. With one policy decision by President Bill Clinton, the accuracy of GPS for all users went from 50-100 meters off to 20 meters or better with the flick of a switch.
WWMT
One on one with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
President Donald Trump is requesting that Secretary of Education, and Holland-native Betsy DeVos review every policy and regulation from the department that may be intrusive to local schools. Newschannel 3’s political reporter Nick Minock got to speak with Secretary DeVos after the President signed the new executive order. In the exclusive interview, we asked if DeVos plans on repealing Common Core.