According to new guidelines released by the Minnesota Department of Education, school districts and charter schools can reopen this summer to provide summer school, day camps and district-based child care for students while adhering to public health guidance....
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Center of the American Experiment, along with 18 other state think tanks and nearly 50 school choice and scholarship groups, recently called on Congress to provide dedicated funding and tax policy changes to prevent massive non-public school closures during the coronavirus pandemic. These closures would not only impact all students—in both public and private schools—but would financially devastate public school districts....
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The Minneapolis Public Schools board virtually approved a controversial redistricting plan last week that is set to take effect fall 2021....
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A recent RealClear Opinion Research survey shows respondents support educational choice and are considering different schooling options for their child after the lockdowns end. ...
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Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet's attack on homeschooling confuses the homeschool movement's stance that parental rights are fundamental with the extremist notion that these rights are absolute. ...
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"I’m 13 years old. I don’t miss the other kids who talk out of turn, disrespect teachers and hit one another." ...
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Ninety percent of parents believe their child is performing at or above grade level, but only 39 percent of teachers say students start the school year prepared for grade-level work. Use this quick readiness check—that students will view as a game—to help your child with math and reading at home. ...
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Minnesota’s once forecasted surplus has turned into a multi-billion dollar deficit, and state leaders have been left to figure out what to do in order to balance the budget. Schools are expected to face budget challenges as well, especially given many were already in the red before the coronavirus pandemic hit. But there is a possible solution to help school districts save thousands of dollars during a time of upcoming budget problems without asking for spending increases that the state can’t afford: K-12 emergency/temporary Education Savings Accounts....
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I previously wrote about Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet's attack on homeschooling, which was filled with assumptions and mischaracterizations of parents who teach their children at home. But it wasn't just the article that was unsettling. There were plans to host an invite-only summit in June at Harvard Law School, focused on anti-homeschooling sentiments, whose co-organizer and one of its featured speakers included none other than Elizabeth Bartholet. These plans have reportedly been postponed until June 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic....
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According to a national survey by the University of Southern California, there is still concern among some parents that their child won’t be prepared for the next school year. When asked how schools should come back from lost classroom instruction, teachers would prefer to begin the next school year with the next grade’s instruction, administrators favored picking up next year where classroom instruction was interrupted this year, and education advocates and policymakers favored extending the next school year. ...
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