STATES
📰 States bristle as DeVos and Department of Education critique their K-12 plans to.pbs.org/2v6b71p via @NewsHour
📰 Tennessee high schoolers post higher test scores, but some subjects remain a struggle chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2017/…
📰 Colorado’s education plan earns cheers, jeers from national reform groups chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/…
NATIONAL REPORT
📰 Report: School violence, bullying down in US public schools seattletimes.com/nation-world/n… via @seattletimes
📰 8 Important Numbers From New Report on Children’s Well-Being: Progress on Poverty & Hunger, Rise in Depression the74million.org/article/8-impo…
📰 U.S. Education Department plans anti-bullying summit wisconsingazette.com/news/u-s-educa… via @wigazette
PEOPLE
DeVos clashed w/ White House over attempted firing of her aide who was Jeb Bush supporter https://t.co/gZsv7ftlxP
📰 Before She Ran NYC’s Schools and Revived Forced Hiring of Teachers, Fariña Was Policy’s Top Critic the74million.org/article/flashb…
TIDBITS
📰 More kids are logging on to learn at cyber schools marketplace.org/2017/07/27/edu…
📰 Record high vaccination rates of 7th-graders reported in first year of stricter requirements edsource.org/2017/record-hi…
📰 California schools don’t always enforce ‘buy American’ federal rules scpr.org/news/2017/07/2…
📰 2 MIT Engineers Use Math To Plot A Path For Boston’s School Buses http://wbur.fm/2uFutIM via @wburedify
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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