NATIONAL
The 74: Arizona Lawmakers Implement Nation’s First Universal Education Savings Account Program https://t.co/WsY6c94QNu See also WSJ, Washington Post
CNN: Student one of 3 dead in San Bernardino school shooting http://linkis.com/MoBGu See also LA Times
NPR: Here’s the Fine Print of the Country’s Biggest-Ever Free College Plan http://n.pr/2ohyWw8
Huffington Post: Why Aren’t There More Black Teachers? http://huff.to/2oKzI8T
EdWeek: In New Mexico, Major Changes to Nation’s Toughest Teacher Evaluation System blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacher
Chalkbeat: How vouchers transformed Indiana: Private schools now live or die by test scores, too https://t.co/HTwHPs9fuo
TRUMP/DEVOS
NYT: Private school vouchers put disabled children in a murky legal no-man’s-land http://nyti.ms/2ovbwY7
The 74 Million: Meet the 9 New Staffers Tapped to Fill Key Roles in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education http://bit.ly/2oBy9tF [See also Breitbart, Washington Post]
ProPublica: DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White http://bit.ly/2ozFWbe
WNYC: Trump Era Challenges Teachers With “Strong Political Views” http://bit.ly/2nOR2KL
STATE & LOCAL LOCAL
NYT: PTA Gift for Someone Else’s Child? A Touchy Subject in California http://ow.ly/mw5n30aSK2O
Hartford Courant: High School Graduation Hits New High http://cour.at/2ocCxfK
Philly.com: Prep-school teacher took boys on trips for camping, skiing — and abuse http://bit.ly/2ohCFtF
WOSU Public Media: A Third Of Ohio’s Class Of 2018 Might Not Graduate High School http://bit.ly/2pCI5AN
NOLA: Teachers Make Big Bucks Selling Lesson Plans Online http://bit.ly/2pmvemL
WAMU: Teens From Two Very Different D.C. Schools Hold Tough Conversations on Race http://bit.ly/2oe9gSf
FROM “THE GRADE”
Pulitzers 2017: Education Journalism Did Better Than You Think http://bit.ly/2pCTmB3 [See also EdWeek]
It’s not just you who’s having trouble getting queries responded to from the USDE. It’s the NYT’s Ron Lieber, too https://twitter.com/MYDM1/status/850274035162152961
Next time you write about vouchers, consider reporting this Gallup survey describing 33 percent of Americans support http://ow.ly/oPae30aSboI
Watch USA Today’s Steve Reilly on GMA talking about schools passing dangerous teachers around http://ow.ly/WpJT30aNS33
Belated thanks to Poynter’s Jim Warren for the kind mention of last week’s column at THE GRADE http://ow.ly/Cmuh30aLHXq
KICKER
ABC News: The awful, odd downfall of the school librarian of the year abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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