DISCRIMINATORY HIRING
Study of Fairfax County schools finds discrimination against black teacher applicants washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
Study: VA school system more likely to hire whites than blacks abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s…
Charter school funding fight — and a contentious amendment — shake up Colorado school finance debate chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/…
COMMUNIST PRINCIPAL
Investigation of NYC activist principal has free-speech advocates asking what politics are allowed at school chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/…
A Principal Is Accused of Being a Communist, Rattling a Brooklyn School – The New York Times http://ow.ly/JGZw30bsuYQ
MISC
Teach For America reports a rise in applications chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017
Facts About Teens, Suicide And ’13 Reasons Why’ npr.org/sections/ed/20…
Will L.A. schools pass the salt and toss the whole wheat with relaxed Trump standards? latimes.com/local/educatio…
Is this the future of college: Online classes, but no degree, reports @m_education_ap: apne.ws/2qlsarQ
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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