NATIONAL
‘Act of terror’ unfolds steps from New York City high school, injuring two students co.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/…
The Education of Betsy DeVos – POLITICO Magazine pllqt.it/h40tBm
‘Raising Kings,’ Part 3: Irreconcilable Differences – Education Week/NPR ow.ly/Ykdj30gh03i
A simple solution for solving teacher shortages: pay incentives for hard-to-find educators chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/…
“Results suggest a sizable increase in the number of stressed educators since the poll was last conducted in 2015.” the74million.org/61-of-teachers…
BIG CITY NEWS
50 Houston Charter Schools [Including KIPP] Accept New Common Application the74million.org/50-houston-cha…
LAUSD was asking about Rodriguez-linked charter school deals in 2015. Did they say ‘stop’? scpr.org/news/2017/10/3…
CHICAGO/ILLINOIS
ISBE’s first charter campus data reports show wide range of scores chicago.suntimes.com/news/illinois-…
Errors in data for Chicago schools made preliminary numbers virtually useless chicago.suntimes.com/news/errors-da…
Prince Harry and Michelle Obama surprise students at Chicago public school abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/…
MISC.
Police rescue teacher held hostage in classroom at California elementary school washingtonpost.com/news/education…
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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