High school students give Chinese president football AP: Chinese President Xi Jinping received a football, a personalized jersey and instruction on America’s most popular sport during a tour of a Washington state high...
Read MoreThe Dyett hunger strike in Chicago is long over. The strikers succeeded in pressuring the district to agree to creating a new school on the site (if not to creating a local school council in the first year). But...
Read MoreKudos to LA Times education reporter Howard Blume for getting a hold of a 44-page memo outlining a massive $490 million charter school expansion plan being floated by the Broad Foundation and others. LA is a competitive market...
Read MoreGroup Led By Billionaire Proposes Overhaul Of LA Public Schools NPR: A memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times reveals a controversial plan to put half of the city’s public school kids in charter schools. Renee Montagne...
Read MoreIn case you missed it at first (as I did), Jane Williams’ weekly education news radio show Bloomberg EDU isn’t back for another year. Launched in 2011, the show wrapped up this past spring. It’s not that there...
Read MoreScott Walker Suspends Presidential Campaign After Late Anti-Union Push PK12: In what turned out to be his last major campaign push, Walker this month had once again played up his opposition to unions. See also State EdWatch....
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