DEVOS DISTRACTION
DeVos offers buyouts to shrink Education Department workforce washingtonpost.com/news/grade-poi…
Husband’s donations cloud Betsy DeVos’ pledge – goo.gl/alerts/PKtAV #GoogleAlerts
Why Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s names — and faces — are all over this fall’s Denver school board races chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/…
COME ON, PEOPLE
As superintendent, Dallas Dance spent more than a third of 2016 school days traveling out of state baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…
Sauna, pole shed, batting cage among items Westerhuis bought with embezzled money argusleader.com/story/news/pol…
Georgia schools police chief resigns following car crash ow.ly/tgB030ga7up
ALL THE REST
San Diego Unified Principals Are Bearing the Brunt of Budget Cuts voiceofsandiego.org/topics/educati…
In face of shortage, California colleges to shrink time to become a math teacher edsource.org/2017/californi…
New Mexico backtracks on dropping evolution in classrooms abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wire…
Documentary Recalls a 1963 Boycott of Segregated Chicago Public Schools – Education and the Media – Education Week ow.ly/prvb30gcuKF
Survey: Teachers’ mental health declining amid job stress usat.ly/2hl7z3S via @USATODAY
The Americans who can’t read bbc.in/2lrjwtg
What it cost to buy in Oregon’s top 15 school districts (photos) oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2…
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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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