A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court is rejecting a lawsuit claiming the state isn't living up to its constitutional requirement to provide a “high quality” education for all. The ruling ends a nearly decade-long lawsuit challenging school funding, which was filed by parents, students and advocacy groups.
When the North Carolina General Assembly reconvenes on January 9, seventh-grade English teacher Justin Parmenter wants legislators to consider these five ways to improve education in the state this year: Restore teaching assistants, provide trauma-informed training, overhaul school report cards, reinstate the charter cap and pay teachers well.
Gavin Newsom, who's being sworn in as California's 40th governor today, is delivering on campaign promises, proposing nearly $2 billion in spending on early education and childcare programs in his first state budget proposal. An overview plan shared with The Chronicle includes $750 million for schools to implement full-day kindergarten programs and $747 million to subsidize childcare facilities and to help train childcare workers.
As the federal government shutdown heads into its third week, parents in Los Angeles are also bracing for a possible shutdown of the public school system. The school district is hemorrhaging cash and students, but on January 10, the 33,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles plan to go on strike anyway, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The Kentucky Department of Education has released a K3 Dyslexia Toolkit that provides educators and families with a resource to help meet learning needs of students with dyslexia, or those who display characteristics of dyslexia. This 20-page document comes in response to the Ready to Read Act, which directed KDE to develop and share a toolkit that school districts and educators can use to help serve students with dyslexia.
Educators look on the bright side (and the not-so-bright side) to predict where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short in 2019.
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