September 21, 2015

Delaware News

The News Journal
How can we help students succeed?
Editorial
“Student Success 2025” got the key points just right. The thoroughgoing outreach effort of the Vision Coalition of Delaware has produced a plan that is gaining support up and down the state. The group did this by looking at what the various education parties had in common and then building a plan around those points. The six core ideas make enormous sense.

WDEL
Politics could hinder attempts to reform Delaware’s education system
Amy Cherry reports in part 4 of an in-depth look into the Student Success 2025 plan
The Vision Coalition will face an uphill battle when it comes to seeking fair and efficient funding for Delaware’s education system. “The money does not travel with the student, and to me, that’s very important,” said Mark Stellini, of Assurance Media, who sat on the Vision Coalition’s working group that analyzed system governance and performance.

WMDT
Achievement gap remains in new standardized test
Delaware students’ performance on a new standardized test linked to Common Core academic standards shows a continuing achievement gap between black students and other subgroups.

WBOC
Update: Achievement gap remains in new standardized test
Delaware students’ performance on a new standardized test linked to Common Core academic standards shows a continuing achievement gap between black students and other subgroups.

National News

Education Week
N.Y. Regents question evaluation-scoring model, offer flexibility
Some New York teachers will get to appeal part of their teacher-evaluation rating, at least temporarily, under new regulations approved by the New York State Board of Regents this week.

Associated Press
Seattle teachers approve labor contract, vote to end strike
Seattle teachers have approved a labor contract between the union and its school district, officially ending a weeklong strike that had delayed the start of school for 53,000 students.

USA Today
The nonprofit bringing high-school broadband into the modern era
U.S. schools are getting a bad deal on their broadband service, but a startup non-profit founded by a successful tech entrepreneur is trying to change that. The change can’t come soon enough, says Evan Marwell, CEO and founder of Education Superhighway, which procures Internet equipment and broadband service for a growing number of this country’s 100,000 public schools.

Huffington Post
Number of homeless public school students hits record high. Here’s who’s helping
The number of homeless students enrolled in public schools hit a record high last year. But simply changing the way agencies define homeless youth could ensure that this vulnerable population gets the services they need. Last year, 1.36 million public school students were homeless, according to data released by the Department of Education. That’s almost double the amount recorded in the 2006-2007 school year.

The Tennessean
College enrollment jumps under TN Promise
Enrollment is up at many of Tennessee’s 13 community colleges, and almost all of them have seen sharp gains in the number of students enrolled with a full course load, a requirement of the full-tuition Tennessee Promise scholarship program.