Segregation lingers in US schools 60 years after Little Rock abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s…
60 years ago today, 9 black students entered an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new movie “Teach Us All” honors them https://t.co/gk5wmL0sCC
America’s Most Integrated School Has Segregated Again – CityLab nzzl.us/xQrtsjz
OTHER NEWS
Inside ESSA Plans: How Are States Looking Beyond Test Scores? blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig…
Hurricane Maria could send wave of Puerto Rican students to Miami miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…
Former charter school leaders settle lawsuit that alleged self-dealing scheme washingtonpost.com/local/educatio
L.A. teachers union calls for embattled ex-president Ref Rodriguez to leave school board latimes.com/local/educatio…
Seattle schools enrollment lower than expected; 18 schools will lose staff seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…
UPDATES
How school districts around Minnesota are responding to tension over immigration issues minnpost.com/education/2017…
How a new principal led her neighborhood school to the biggest ISTEP gains in Indianapolis Public Schools ny.chalkbeat.org/posts/in/2017/…
How Antonio Villaraigosa went from a union organizer to a union target latimes.com/politics/la-po…
Gov. Brown must decide fate of maternity pay, summer fund for low-paid school workers edsource.org/2017/gov-brown…
Influential U.S. House Republican on Education, Dies at 89 blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig…
Teacher Subdued Gunman at Illinois School nytimes.com/2017/09/22/us/…
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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