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<![endif]--><a name="_Hlk105651176">Dear Colleague,</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">As reported
recently by <i>EdSource, </i>“Covid challenges, bad student behavior push
teachers to limit, out the door.”</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>In the last six months of 2020 –
after the pandemic began – there were 5,644 </i></span><a href="https://www.calstrs.com/files/5ec1088f0/zTRB202101+Item+5.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>teacher retirements</i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>, a 26% increase the same period the
previous year, according to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System.
By the end of the school year, </i></span><a href="https://www.calstrs.com/files/b43a53a11/acfr2021.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>12,785 teachers</i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> had retired – 8% higher than the
previous year. Data for this school year is not yet available, but CalSTRS
reports that the number of retirements has leveled off since 2020.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>Most of the retirees who
completed a CalSTRS survey said they retired earlier than they had planned.
Almost half of the retirees surveyed in the 2020-21 school year said challenges
related to teaching during Covid were among the primary reasons for their early
departure. </i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>“I can’t speak for others, but
even in our worst years prior to Covid, we did not see the mass exiting that we
do now,” said Lindsay Mendoza, president of the Cutler-Orosi Unified Teachers
Association. </i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>These resignations come as
California school districts are already struggling with staff shortages that
have meant larger class sizes and more teachers giving up preparation and lunch
periods to cover classes when other teachers are sick.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To read on, go </span><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/covid-challenges-bad-student-behavior-push-teachers-to-the-limit-and-out-the-door/673124"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">As teachers leave the profession,
they also leave the teachers union. But the California Teachers Association’s
finances are in good shape, according to Mike Antonucci who asserts, “California
Teachers Union Expects to Lose 4,000 Members, Gain $2.3M.”</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The union has lost more than
35,000 members since its high-water mark in 2018. That’s equivalent to the
entire membership of the Colorado Education Association.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The California union thinks the
bleeding will continue. Its 2022-23 budget assumes a loss of almost 4,000 more
working members from March 2022 levels. And there are even bigger worries on
the horizon.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>In her preamble to the budget,
obtained exclusively by The 74, Secretary-Treasurer Leslie Littman singles one
out.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>“Another growing concern is
enrollment in California public schools,” she wrote. “The number of students
has been steadily declining for years, which studies attributed to excessive
cost of living in the state, declining birth rates and migration patterns. But
the pandemic exacerbated the decline as parents’ frustration over distance
learning intensified. Certain studies project a 9 percent decline in public
school enrollment in California within the next 10 years.”</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>…But membership losses won’t
translate into financial pain for the union’s three executive officers and its
415 employees. State dues are indexed to increases in the state’s average
teacher salary. Each member will pay the state union $768 in 2022-23, an
increase of $15. Despite the projected membership losses, the union will
actually rake in $2.3 million more next year, for a total of $214 million,
tax-exempt.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To continue reading, go </span><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-california-teachers-union-expects-to-lose-4000-members-gain-2-3m/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">In the meantime, California is “set
to launch hundreds of community schools with $635 million in grants.”</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>Approved a year ago by the
Legislature, the $3 billion California Community Schools Partnership Program
will be the nation’s most ambitious effort to create schools serving multiple
health and learning needs of children. Community schools have come to be known
as schools with “wraparound services.” The underlying assumption is that a
holistic approach to education, particularly in low-income areas with unmet
basic needs, creates the best conditions for children to thrive emotionally and
academically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gov. Gavin Newsom is
proposing to increase the community schools program by $1.5 billion – 50% – in
his revised 2022-23 state budget, which he released on May 13.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>On the recommendation of the
California Department of Education,</i></span><a href="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/communityschools-planninggrants-rev-051222.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> 192 districts,
county offices of education and charter schools will receive</i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> $200,000 two-year planning grants in the
first round.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The other 73 districts, with at
least some existing community schools, will receive</i></span><a href="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/communityschools-implement-grants-rev-051222.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> implementation
grants covering 444 schools</i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>;
each school will receive over five years between $712,500 for schools with
fewer than 150 students to $2.375 million for schools with more than 2,000
students. Schools serving at least 80% low-income children will receive
priority funding.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To learn more,
go </span><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/california-set-to-launch-hundreds-of-community-schools-with-635-million-in-grants/672246"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">Also concerning
education finances, “Legislature disagrees with Newsom on how to spend
additional billions for education.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>School
districts and charter schools would get $4.5 billion more than Gov. Gavin
Newsom is proposing for the Local Control Funding Formula, under a draft
2022-23 state budget that the Legislature released this week.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>But to do it,
lawmakers would cut into some of Newsom’s favored proposals like his early
literacy proposal for $500 million over five years to train and hire literacy
coaches and reading specialists in elementary schools and $200 million to
create or expand multilingual school or classroom libraries with “culturally
relevant texts” to support reading. The Legislature also wants to cut an
additional $1.5 billion to establish community schools in schools with
concentrations of low-income families; the 2021-22 budget included $3 billion
to launch the program. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The literacy
proposals are backed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony
Thurmond’s task force on early literacy.</i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>Since
legislative leaders are basing their alternative budget on the same revenue
projections for 2022-23 that Newsom used, they would eliminate or reduce some
of Newsom’s top priorities to make room for the $4.5 billion.</i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The
Legislature would further slice Newsom’s pot of one-time funding by dropping
$1.8 billion for deferred maintenance of K-12 facilities and reducing increased
funding for dual enrollment and career pathways.</i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To read on, go </span><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/legislature-disagrees-with-newsom-on-how-to-spend-additional-billions-for-education/673447"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">In a very
questionable move, “The California State Senate has passed a bill that would
allow schools not to report threats or attacks against employees or officials
to law enforcement, despite the ongoing national shock and outrage over the
Uvalde, Texas, mass school shooting.”</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The bill, </i></span><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1273" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>SB 1273</i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>, introduced by State Sen. Steven
Bradford (D-Los Angeles), passed easily last Thursday — just two days after the
Uvalde shooting, in which an 18-year-old gunman murdered 19 children and two
teachers in an elementary school.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The bill repeals a provision of
existing law that requires that “whenever any employee of a school district or
county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically
threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or
supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are
required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities.”
SB 1273 would make such reports to law enforcement voluntary.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To learn more,
go </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/06/01/california-state-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-schools-not-to-report-threats/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">Additionally,
the ethnic studies battle rages on here in California. As John Fensterwald
reports, “Debate turns hot over UC proposal to set criteria for high school
ethnic studies.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>An
influential University of California faculty committee has shelved a draft
policy to require criteria for high school ethnic studies courses that critics
characterized as narrow, ideological and activist.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The
professors who wrote the draft are vowing to fight for it, in what could become
a combative and very public battle over who gets to decide what California high
school students will learn about the heritage, history, culture and struggles
of the state’s historically underrepresented groups.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The proposal
had gone through several iterations and had appeared to be on track to go
before the UC Board of Regents for approval. Instead, the Board of Admissions
and Relations with Schools or BOARS, which initiated the effort, has
backpedaled amid continued questions and debate within and outside of UC.</i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To read more, go
</span><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/debate-turns-hot-over-uc-proposal-to-set-criteria-for-high-school-ethnic-studies/673084"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">Also in the
political realm, Pacific Research Institute scholar Lance Izumi writes, “Woke
Math Returns to California.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>Last year,
the California Department of Education released the first draft of a new
curriculum framework for K-12 mathematics, which would guide teaching in the
classroom.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The first
draft was widely criticized for politicizing math instruction by inserting
"environmental and social justice" into the math curriculum, having
students solve "problems that result in social inequalities," and
rejecting the notion that math is a "neutral discipline."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>Because of
intense backlash, including an open letter signed by more than 1,200
mathematicians, scientists, and education leaders, the first draft was pulled
back. But now, a second draft has been released and it is still filled with
woke concepts and prescriptions.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i>The second
draft says that the goal of teaching math will be to "promote racial
justice." Indeed, five of the 14 chapters of the framework are focused on
equity, with the CDE saying that "equity influences all aspects of this
document."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To continue
reading, go </span><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/lanceizumi/2022/05/07/woke-math-returns-to-california-n2606895"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most
recently, the results of a </span></span><a href="https://cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr/files/5-4.pdf?m=1651690491" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harvard University study</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
which investigated the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps
in achievement by race and school poverty, have been released.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using
testing data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools in 49 states and D.C.,
the researchers found that “shifts to remote or hybrid instruction during
2020-21 had </span></i></span><a href="https://cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr/files/5-4.pdf?m=1651690491" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">profound consequences for student
achievement</span></i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. In districts that went remote,
achievement growth was lower for all subgroups, but especially for students
attending high-poverty schools. In areas that remained in-person, “there were
still modest losses in achievement, but there was no widening of gaps between
high and low-poverty schools in math (and less widening in reading).”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
study, by curriculum and assessment provider Amplify, examined test data
for some 400,000 elementary school students across 37 states and found a spike
in students not reading at grade level, with literacy losses
“disproportionately concentrated in the early elementary grades (K-2).” The
report also found that minority children suffered disproportionate
learning loss. As The Wall Street Journal reports, “During the
last normal school year, only 34% of black and 29% of Hispanic second graders needed
intensive intervention to help catch up. This school year </span></i></span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-school-shutdowns-and-lost-literacy-covid-pandemic-amplify-education-reading-11645653340" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">47% of black and 39% of Hispanic second
graders</span></i></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> have fallen this far behind on
literacy, compared to 26% of white peers.”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">To learn more,
go </span><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/unraveling-education-america-larry-sand/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk105651176;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As we mentioned last month, California’s schools are
losing students at a fairly rapid clip, but as the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>
reports, Bay Area schools have been especially hard hit.</p>
<p><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enrollment at San Francisco public schools </span></i><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/SFUSD-enrollment-plummets-this-year-doubling-17073854.php"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">plummeted</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
this year, from almost 52,000 students in the 2020-21 school year to 49,000 in
2021-22. This follows a decline of over 1,000 students in the previous year,
combining for a district-wide drop in enrollment of 7% since before the
pandemic.</span></i></p>
<p><i>Enrollment loss, however, is not just a San Francisco problem. Public
schools across the state lost 2% of students compared to 2019, and in the Bay
Area, districts had a combined 6.5% enrollment decrease, with several seeing
more dramatic declines than San Francisco Unified.</i></p>
<p><i>The Chronicle compared </i><a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/enrolldowndata.asp"><i>enrollment data</i></a><i>
for non-charter public schools at the 10 largest school districts in the
nine-county Bay Area from 2019-20, the most recent school year unaffected by
the pandemic, to 2021-2022, the current school year.</i></p>
<p><i>We found enrollment decreases at each of the 10 districts. San Jose
Unified School District had the largest decline, at 11%, followed by 9% at
Hayward Unified in Alameda County and 7% at West Contra Costa Unified. SFUSD
had the fourth-highest proportional decrease but lost the largest number of
students (around 3,600) over the two years.</i></p>
<p><i>Much of the enrollment decline was a result of fewer K-8 students. Across
Bay Area public schools, K-8 enrollment fell by 9%, compared to just 3% among
high school students.</i></p>
<p><i>Enrollment changes also differed by race and ethnicity. </i><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-schools-could-face-huge-budget-hit-17072899.php"><i>Statewide
enrollment</i></a><i> among white students fell the most, at 5%, compared with
3.6% for Blacks, 2% for Asian Americans and less than 1% among Hispanic
students.</i></p>
<p>To learn more, go <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-lost-about-7-of-its-public-school-17134833.php">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In Oakland the school district announced earlier this
year that it plans to close, merge or reduce classes for 11 schools over the
next two years. And recently, seven-and-a-half year Oakland Unified school
board member Shanthi Gonzales, one of five board members who have been
lambasted for supporting controversial school closures earlier this year,
announced her resignation in a letter critical of the district’s teachers union
and other board members. </p>
<p><i>“Most Oakland schools aren’t “meeting students’ academic needs” and that
the failure to improve school quality has driven the district’s significant
enrollment loss over the last 20 years.</i></p>
<p><i>She criticized the school board as a whole for wasting too much meeting
time on “issues that, while important, don’t have much to do with how students
are doing academically.”</i></p>
<p><i>“As long as we are struggling to ensure that students can read at grade
level, it is a disservice to our students and families to spend so much time on
issues that are not central to our core mission,” Gonzales said.</i></p>
<p><i>She also accused leaders of the district’s teachers union, the Oakland
Education Association, and their “allies” of “resisting efforts to address
school quality” as well as trying to shut down debate on topics they don’t
agree with — sometimes “through acts of intimidation.” Her employer was
contacted and asked that she be condemned for supporting school closures, she
said.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2022/oakland-students-teachers-community-to-fight-11-school-closures-mergers-reductions/667243">here</a>
and <a href="https://edsource.org/updates/oakland-unified-school-board-member-resigns-in-aggravation">here</a>.</p>
<p>Statewide, <i>The 74</i> reports that “California Voters More Dissatisfied
With Local Schools after Pandemic than Voters in Other States, New Poll Finds.”</p>
<p class="has-drop-cap"><i>From their dislike of local teachers’ unions to a lack
of confidence in school administrators, California voters are more disillusioned
with the state of education than voters nationally, a new poll has
found. </i></p>
<p><i>Commissioned by the reform-oriented nonprofit, Murmuration, </i><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/young-republicans-old-democrats-exclusive-poll-points-to-stark-generation-gaps-on-school-choice-teachers-unions/"><i>likely
California voters</i></a><i> who were also parents were much less satisfied
with the performance of traditional neighborhood public schools during the
pandemic than in every other state polled, including Colorado, Georgia,
Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, New Jersey, Tennessee, and the District of
Columbia. </i></p>
<p><i>“Many places in California struggled to get remote learning set up and
make it effective. There were also fights with the unions when it came to
school reopenings,” said Brian Reich, vice president of communications at
Murmuration. “I think that over the course of the pandemic, issues just
continued to compound themselves.”</i></p>
<p><i>In California, controversy over remote learning and how school reopenings
were handled were particularly extreme, Reich said. In San Francisco for
example, </i><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-votes-recall-citys-scandal-plagued-school-board-rcna16394" target="_blank"><i>three school board members were recalled</i></a><i> for the
first time since 1983 because parents felt the board was prioritizing
progressive politics over school reopenings, said Reich.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/california-voters-more-dissatisfied-with-local-schools-after-pandemic-than-voters-in-other-states-new-poll-finds/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And then there are <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">California school districts that grew
during the pandemic and are feeling shortchanged.</span></p>
<p><i>While the vast majority of California’s school districts </i><a href="https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2022/04/california-public-school-enrollment/"><i>lost
students</i></a><i> during most of this past decade, hundreds of districts —
mostly small and rural — have grown, emerging from the height of the
pandemic with higher enrollment.</i></p>
<p><i>Most districts would welcome an enrollment increase and the per-student
state funding boost that usually comes with it. But these growing districts
were shortchanged when the state implemented blanket COVID-19 policies
protecting districts that lost enrollment during the pandemic. </i></p>
<p><i>“The decision to hold districts harmless for declining enrollment came
from a well-intended solution,” said </i><a href="https://edpolicyinca.org/about/authors/peter-birdsall"><i>Peter Birdsall</i></a><i>,
president of lobbying firm Education Advocates. “Even at the time, the concern
was raised that some districts were growing. ‘Hold harmless’ actually hurt
them.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2022/05/california-school-districts/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On the union front, Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Scott
Fitzgerald (R-WI) introduced legislation in April to repeal the National
Education Association charter.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Banks, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman, and
Fitzgerald, an RSC member, introduced the National Educational Association
Charter Repeal Act, which would end the federal charter granted to the NEA. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">The RSC contends that the NEA has abandoned its core
mission to “elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession
of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Banks said in a statement on Thursday:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>I was happy to partner with Rep. Fitzgerald on this
important piece of legislation. There is now no daylight between the NEA’s
agenda and the radical left’s agenda. Worst of all, the NEA strongly supports
teaching 5-year-old children about adult sexual behavior. Their mission used to
be education, now it’s indoctrination and pitting American children against
their parents’ values.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Congress represents all Americans, and this bill will
end Congress’s tacit support for an organization that now only represents
narrow, partisan interests.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“The National Education Association has strayed far
from its original mission. Rather than supporting students, the NEA
consistently put the interests of progressive teachers’ unions over the
learning of students,” Fitzgerald explained in a statement. “It is time for
Congress to say enough is enough and revoke the NEA’s federal charter.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The NEA has increasingly supported Democrat
initiatives such as nationwide school lockdowns, abortion, critical race theory
(CRT), gender ideology in curriculums, and open borders.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If passed, H.R. 7510 wouldn’t directly affect
the union’s day-to-day operation, but it could serve to wake teachers up to the
fact that their union is not all it pretends to be. So many teachers think that
the bulk of their $1,000 plus yearly dues payments go to their local union to
fight for them – pay and working conditions, for example. But nothing could be
further from the truth. Depending on the state, a good 80% of teachers’ dues
payments are funneled up to the state and national union affiliates where a
great deal of the money goes into politics – almost exclusively in a leftward
direction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/14/jim-banks-scott-fitzgerald-propose-to-repeal-national-education-association-charter/">here</a>
and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/17/teachers-unions-ramped-up-the-donations-to-dems-as-they-pushed-their-school-closing-policies/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Mike Antonucci is reporting that as in-person instruction
has been restored everywhere in the country, and the nation’s schools are
dealing with an upsurge in violence and threats against teachers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span></i><a href="https://www.apa.org/education-career/k12/violence-educators.pdf"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American Psychological Association
conducted a survey</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
that found one of every three teachers had experienced verbal harassment or
threats of violence from students since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
Individual teacher responses were chilling.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I have been physically assaulted
multiple times by students in the building and they know that not only is there
no one to stop them, but there will be no consequences either. I ended up in
the hospital the last time it happened,” one teacher recounted.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A student in Clark County, Nevada, was </span></i><a href="https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/las-vegas-high-school-student-arrested-for-attempted-murder-sex-assault-of-teacher"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arrested for sexual assault and
attempted murder</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
of a teacher in her classroom. The district has seen 1,300 incidents this
school year where arrests were made or citations issued. Police have
confiscated 28 guns on campus.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teachers and their unions are demanding
action, but the actions demanded vary widely in emphasis, degree and harmony
with past demands.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In response, the Clark County school
district </span></i><a href="https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/04/10/stop-school-violence-ccsd-teachers-plan-protest-outside-administrative-center/"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">upgraded security cameras, provided
teachers with wearable panic buttons, and increased police presence around
schools</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Erie, Pennsylvania, a school
shooting of one student by another led a labor relations specialist from the
Pennsylvania State Education Association to </span></i><a href="https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/46237053/erie-high-teachers-call-working-conditions-at-school-unsafe-wont-return-to-in-person-class-until-issues-resolved"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pen a letter to the district
superintendent</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
demanding, among other things:</span></i></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An increase in security and/or police presence in
highly visible and well-trafficked areas.</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The installation of fully functioning metal detectors.
Until that can be accomplished, all students shall be scanned with
handheld electronic devices which detect weapons.</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Written instructions for student removal procedures,
distributed to all staff.</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fully functioning security cameras.</span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.eiaonline.com/2022/04/20/violence-against-teachers-prompts-calls-for-increased-security/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Are letter grades on the way out at the University of
California? According to <i>EdSource</i>, some departments are thinking about
using alternatives.</span></p>
<p><i>Divisions like UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and UC Davis’s Department
of Mathematics are deliberating whether to change how they grade students. In
some cases, that means awarding students a pass or no-pass grade rather than a
letter grade. Other times, it may mean allowing students to choose which
assignments get the most weight in determining their grade.</i></p>
<p><i>At UC Irvine, Academic Senate leaders are currently evaluating long-term
options around grading and have met with officials at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where students don’t receive letter grades for their
first semester, to learn about that university’s approach.</i></p>
<p><i>Departments at other UC campuses are also experimenting with making
changes to how they test students, putting less emphasis on high-stakes exams
because some students aren’t good test takers but can demonstrate their
understanding of the material in other ways. Some departments have begun using
two-stage exams. Students take a standard individual exam before also taking a
group test where they work with other students.</i></p>
<p><i>The changes are especially being considered for first-year students to
give them more time to get used to the rigors of college work and learn the
material over the course of a semester rather than discourage them early on
with low scores on tests and other assignments.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2022/letter-grades-on-way-out-why-some-university-of-california-departments-may-use-alternatives/670994">here</a>.</p>
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is doing – good, bad or indifferent – to deal with the “new normal,” please do
so by emailing </span><a href="mailto:cteninfo@ctenhome.org"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">cteninfo@ctenhome.org</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> or posting on the CTEN Facebook page, which can be accessed
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, anyone wishing
to donate to CTEN can do so very simply through check, money order or PayPal - </span><a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/donate/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.ctenhome.org/donate</span></a><u><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As a non-profit, we exist only through
the generosity of others. Thanks, as always.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Larry Sand</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CTEN President</span></p>
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<![endif]--><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; left: 120.04px; top: 950.951px; transform: scaleX(0.909947);"></span>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-53893562143580305282021-12-15T07:51:00.001-08:002021-12-15T07:53:08.039-08:00<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The subject of standardized testing for students has
become very controversial over the years, but with the Covid related shutdowns
leading to varying degrees of learning loss, the debate has become even more
heated. In <i>The 74</i>,<i> </i>Connor Williams posits,<i> </i>“Schools are
More Likely to Do What’s Easiest for Them If No One’s Watching. Why
Standardized Tests Are Critically Useful, Especially Now.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, as anyone who’s ever groaned at
their car’s “Check Engine” light or wondered if that mole on their elbow is
growing knows, problems don’t evaporate just because we refuse to find
out. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s why, </span></i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/covid-school-reopening-anxiety.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as the
pandemic finally allows schools to get back to safe, universal, uninterrupted
in-person instruction</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
it’s important that they administer the full battery of annual
federally-mandated assessments. These tests make up a relatively small part of
the assessment footprint in U.S. schools: annual math and English Language Arts
tests in elementary and middle school (and once more in high school); one
science test in elementary, middle, and high school; and annual assessments of
English learners’ progress learning English. And yet, they provide critical
data points for measuring the depths of the pandemic’s effects on students’
learning. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This is controversial, and not
everybody loves it, but I think we have to assess where kids are,” former
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan explained why this matters </span></i><a href="https://asugsv.app.swapcard.com/event/asu-gsv-2021/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfNjEzMjYz" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on a panel</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at the end of last summer. “Let’s
figure out what their strengths and weaknesses are, where they are, and then
hold ourselves accountable as educators: can we help accelerate them? Can we
help them move? To somehow think that we can just guess, or just assume by
looking at kids that we know where they are today, for me, that’s education
malpractice.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/williams-schools-are-more-likely-to-do-whats-easiest-for-them-if-no-ones-watching-why-standardized-tests-are-critically-useful-especially-now/">here</a>.
</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On a similar note, Andrea Gabor writes, “The Los Angeles
and San Diego school systems want teachers to stop penalizing students for bad
behavior and poor work habits. That’ll just hurt the people the changes are
supposed to help.” <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>I’m a teacher with serious misgivings about the wisdom
of traditional grading systems. So my heart leaped a little when I learned that
Los Angeles and San Diego are moving away from them.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>On closer inspection, I’m not so hopeful. While I’ve
long regarded grades as having the kind of toxic impact on student learning
that petrochemicals have on the environment, the path taken by California’s two
largest school districts risks dumbing down education and hurting the students
it seeks to help.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The changes are fine in theory. They aim to give
students an opportunity to revise their work and retake tests, ideas that have
merit. Moreover, they come in response to a troubling increase in the number of
D’s and F’s assigned in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and school closures;
the traditional grading system, reformers reasonably argued, was widening
educational inequities.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>However, the most worrying aspect of California’s
social-justice approach to grading is the directive to teachers that they not
penalize students for “behavior, work habits and missed deadlines.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-30/california-school-reform-de-emphasizing-grades-can-be-counterproductive">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In other post-Covid doings, <i>The Wall Street Journal </i>reports<i>,</i>
“Schools Cancel Classes to Give Teachers and Students Mental-Health Days.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">School districts nationwide are
canceling classes for what they are calling mental-health days, saying students
and staff need the breaks to handle the </span></i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-reopen-covid-children-masks-vaccine-delta-surge-mandates-texas-california-florida-11631287882?mod=article_inline" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pressure
of returning to school</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
during the Covid-19 pandemic.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is another way this era for K-12
education is unlike any other, as educators rush to make up for lost
instructional time while simultaneously managing last-minute closures for
quarantine, a </span></i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-are-open-but-dont-have-enough-school-bus-drivers-11630760402?mod=article_inline" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lack of
bus and cafeteria staff</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and, now, the need to take a break from stress.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The practice caught on in early
November when many districts in the Southeast opted to create a long weekend by
canceling school on Nov. 12, the Friday after Veterans Day, according to
Burbio, a Pelham, N.Y., data company that is monitoring K-12 school closures in
5,000 districts across the country. The announcement of closures accelerated in
the middle of the month as many school districts decided to cancel classes the
entire week of Thanksgiving, said Dennis Roche, Burbio president.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The volume was really high, really
quickly,” he said.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There have been at least 3,145 school
closures specifically for mental-health needs so far this year, predominantly
in North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri, according to Burbio. That represents
more than a third of the 8,692 school closures so far this year, which have
mostly been for quarantine or staffing reasons.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-cancel-classes-to-give-teachers-and-students-mental-health-days-11637845201">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As public schools are depopulating, Los Angeles could be
hit even harder than other districts, as<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> attendance is off by </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-28/lausd-enrollment-drops-by-30000-students-amid-covid-19" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">27,000</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> students, or 6 percent of
the total. That number could balloon when a strict vaccine mandate for students
12 and older goes into effect after Christmas break in January. At this time, </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-07/33-000-l-a-unified-have-not-provided-proof-of-covid-vaccination"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">34,000
students</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> are not fully vaxed, and needless to say, any easing of
Covid mandates is a non-starter for the </span><a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/19/teachers-union-wants-lausd-to-delay-major-changes-to-covid-19-protocols/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">United Teachers of Los Angeles</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Families that don’t comply will have to
enroll their children outside of L.A. Unified or transfer them to City of
Angels, an independent study program that was adapted this year to include some
live online instruction. City of Angels has been </span></i><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-27/independent-study-california-lausd"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beset by staffing shortages
and instability</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
Parents of students with special needs have been </span></i><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-05/court-order-reinstates-distance-learning-for-disabled-students"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">particularly upset at the
limitations</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of the program — and
many students waited weeks before being able to receive any meaningful
instruction.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having earlier deadlines gives district
officials more time to prepare for what could happen. About 16,000 students are
currently enrolled in City of Angels. The possible influx of many thousands
more would have the potential to overwhelm the program.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-07/33-000-l-a-unified-have-not-provided-proof-of-covid-vaccination">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On a statewide level the Bay Area News Group writes in an
editorial that, “California education dollars must be targeted for real change.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s been eight years since then-Gov.
Jerry Brown restructured California’s school funding formulas to direct
billions of dollars to the state’s neediest students.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, in 2019, state Auditor Elaine
Howle </span></i><a href="https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2019-101.pdf" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">confirmed</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> what critics had been saying for
years: State and local tax money allocated under the formula had apparently
been used instead to boost overall spending throughout school districts. </span></i><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/04/editorial-california-cant-account-for-billions-of-education-dollars/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It wasn’t
exactly clear</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
where the money had gone once it reached the districts.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Howle’s findings are reinforced by </span></i><a href="https://edpolicyinca.org/publications/whats-next-local-control-funding-formula" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a new
report</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> this month from
Policy Analysis for California Education, an independent research center that
draws from Stanford, University of Southern California and the University of
California campuses at Berkeley, Davis and Los Angeles. The academics also
found that a lack of financial accountability allows districts to avoid
spending the extra money where it was intended and where it could do the most
good.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s time for state lawmakers to put an
end to this wastefulness, mandate meaningful accountability and ensure that the
money is targeted to provide real change. It’s unacceptable that California
test scores continue to </span></i><a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile/overview/CA?cti=PgTab_OT&chort=2&sub=MAT&sj=CA&fs=Grade&st=MN&year=2019R3&sg=Gender%3A+Male+vs.+Female&sgv=Difference&ts=Single+Year&tss=2019R3-2019R3&sfj=NP" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">significantly
lag</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the national
average, and that the state has failed to close the achievement gap that
divides along racial and economic lines.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.marinij.com/2021/11/29/editorial-billions-of-california-education-dollars-unaccounted-for/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“A proposed California ballot measure would make good
schools a constitutional right,” reports <i>The Wall Street Journal.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Welch
is trying to improve California’s education system. He tells me we need
“accountability of quality education.” You may recall the 2014 Vergara v.
California decision, a suit Mr. Welch and others funded. Filed on behalf of
nine public-school students, the ruling found that five California statutes
related to teacher tenure, firing bad teachers and layoff policy violated the
state’s Constitution. In his ruling, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Rolf M. Treu noted, “Evidence has been elicited in this trial of the specific
effect of grossly ineffective teachers on students. The evidence is compelling.
Indeed, it shocks the conscience.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No matter. The California Court of
Appeal reversed Vergara in 2016 stating: “With no proper showing of a
constitutional violation, the court is without power to strike down the
challenged statutes.” In the court’s view, the California Constitution
guarantees merely a free public education.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So Mr. Welch was back where he started,
with, he says, an “educational system that doesn’t prioritize its actions to
educate the children to a degree necessary to function in our society.” Bad
teachers are constitutionally protected.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But with his background as a logically
thinking Cornell-educated engineer, he set out to prove bad teaching was “a
constitutional violation.” In the Democrat-controlled California Legislature,
that was going to be a tough sell. Teachers were the fourth-largest campaign
contributors to California’s legislative races in 2020 behind energy, prison
guards and healthcare. “The Legislature won’t listen to the people,” Mr. Welch
grumbles.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fortunately, Californians can change
their constitution through ballot initiatives. And voilà, a group named Kids
First including Mr. Welch filed the Constitutional Right to a High-Quality
Public Education Act. Here’s the key provision: “Any law, regulation, or
policy, or any official action affecting students generally, which does not put
the interest of the students first, shall be deemed to deny this right.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-crumbling-pillar-of-education-california-dave-welch-vergara-school-choice-charter-11638115242">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On the school choice front, we mentioned last month that there
is a <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/measure-to-give-up-to-14000-in-school-vouchers-could-be-on-2022-ballot/">school
choice initiative</a> headed for the California ballot in 2022. And now there
is a second initiative on the same subject. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">From the “Education Savings
Accounts Act of 2022” fact sheet:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parents are ultimately responsible for their children. They
should have the choice and resources </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">necessary to provide the best education opportunities for
their kids, including and especially for those in low or middle-income
communities. Financial barriers have many parents feeling that they have no
options but to send their children to neighborhood schools. Their children’s
future should be based on their aptitude, not their zip code. Every child is
entitled to a free K-12 education. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Education Savings Accounts are the answer!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">• Students can opt into a K-12 savings account with $13,000
a year in state education funds. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">• Parents can send their kids to an accredited school or
homeschool of their choice. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">• Funds can be used for tuition and other eligible education
expenses. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">• Children from low to medium-income families get initial
access in the first four years. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">• Up to $60,000 of leftover funds can be saved for college.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://educationsavingsaccounts.com/education/">here</a>. (We will
feature a side-by-side comparison of the two bills when it is available.)</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Between school shutdowns and the presence of Critical
Race Theory in some schools, public education has been taking a beating of
late. As such, some districts in the Bay Area have taken to advertising their
wares.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Most education officials don’t think of public schools
as a product to sell, but just like fast food or sneaker brands, districts have
billion-dollar budgets and compete in a crowded marketplace.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Now Bay Area public school officials, eyeing
enrollment declines and teacher shortages, are hiring firms to boost their
image. Those firms are looking to billboards, marketing plans and advertising
campaigns to make their arguments.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>While schools aren’t soft drinks, education over the
past couple of decades has become a competitive marketplace with a lot of
options for families, officials said.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“Many times, families are making decisions about which
is the right school or whether that’s a public school, private school or
charter school, with limited information,” said Brian Epperson, CEO of Target
River, a marketing firm working with districts in the Bay Area and seven
states. “If they were a business, they’d have a massive marketing budget to
support their efforts to attract and retain clients.”</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In this case, the clients are students, and each one
is worth $10,000 a year or more in state funding.</i> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/TikTok-and-Bay-Area-billboards-Public-schools-16566545.php">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Talking about families making decisions, there is a new
proposed ballot initiative that would give up to $14,000 per student to attend
private schools is quickly making headway into being on the ballot in 2022.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the </span></i><a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0006A1%20%28%26quot%3BEducational%20Freedom%20Act%26quot%3B%29.pdf"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">California Education Savings
Accounts Initiative </span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span></i><a href="https://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Educational Freedom Act</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">),
one of a </span></i><a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/what-initiatives-might-be-on-the-nov-2022-ballot/"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">slew of proposed ballot
initiatives</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> currently collecting
signatures for next year, California would provide yearly voucher payments of
$14,000 into education savings accounts for K-12 students attending accredited
private schools. The initiative would include religious schools, eliminating
the current constitutional ban on public funding going towards religious and
other private schools. California would not be allowed to set requirements on
certain standards, such as teacher credentialing, curriculum, or disciplinary
policies, but would need to meet educational standards in order to graduate and
advance in grades, as well as meet state health and safety standards.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Funds for the vouchers would come
directly from both the California state General Fund and local property taxes,
with any extra funds from the vouchers after tuition and other private schools
costs going to college, vocational training, and other higher education costs.
If funds remain by the time the student is 30, all remaining funds will go back
to the state.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more about the proposed ballot initiative, go <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/measure-to-give-up-to-14000-in-school-vouchers-could-be-on-2022-ballot/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On the labor front, Mike Antonucci writes, “Amid Growing
Parent Backlash, Teachers Unions Keep Trying to Rewrite School Reopening
History.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give American Federation of Teachers
President Randi Weingarten a platform and she will deliver this often repeated
claim about shuttered school campuses and the pandemic:</span></i></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AFTunion/videos/374267340630976/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March
19, 2021</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:
“We’ve been trying to reopen schools since last April.”</span></i></li></ul>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1456030380851699715" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">November
3, 2021</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:
“When you see people say that teachers closed schools, don’t let that lie
stand. We, the AFT, put out a plan in April 2020 and worked very hard to
reopen schools safely.”</span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One part of those statements is
accurate. The AFT did put out a plan in April 2020. The rest, however, is
easily refuted by looking at what AFT and its affiliates actually did during
almost a year-and-a-half of widespread school closures due to COVID-19.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I detail teacher union actions at the
national, state and local levels in a new report for the </span></i><a href="https://dfipolicy.org/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defense of Freedom Institute</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. It’s called “</span></i><a href="https://dfipolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DFI_Teachers-Union-Resistance-to-Reopening-Schools-Report.pdf" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teacher
Union Resistance to Reopening Schools: An Examination of the Largest U.S.
School Districts</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”
Districts studied included New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami-Dade
County, Clark County (Nevada), Houston and Fairfax County (Virginia).</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more and read Antonucci’s report, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/analysis-amid-growing-parent-backlash-teachers-unions-keep-trying-to-rewrite-school-reopening-history/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">At least one teacher in the Sacramento area is fighting
back against mask mandates, and is paying the price for his activism.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier this week, 50 students at
Ponderosa High School protested the school’s mask mandate in what they’re now
calling “No-Mandate Monday.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael Wilkes, a business technology
teacher at the Shingle Springs high school, said he chose to join the students
by removing his mask during class. Later that day, he was told he was placed on
administrative leave.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael told CBS13 he wasn’t surprised.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Going into it, I knew obviously as a
teacher, if I chose to support these students in protest, there would be
professional consequences,” he said.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, Michael says he believes his job
is at stake.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lexi Wagner is also paying the price
for the protest. The Ponderosa High School senior helped spur the movement. Her
mom, Andi Wagner, says Lexi has been “removed from class multiple times and
ultimately asked to find ‘alternative learning’ because she will not comply.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/10/29/shingle-springs-teacher-paid-leave-mask-protest/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">According to the <i>Orange County Register</i>, “Some
parents find a long-term solution in at-home learning.” <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Families are coming to homeschooling at record rates
during the pandemic, with the numbers doubling from 5.4 percent to 11 percent
between March 2020 and March 2021, according to the U.S. Census. Homeschool
associations across California saw memberships and social media followings
grow, and places that offer curriculum received calls from first-timers eager
for solutions.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>There are many reasons these families say they are
making the switch from COVID-19 concerns to the quality of distance learning.
Parents report that some children with sensitivities struggle with masks,
others want learning centered around religious world views, and still others
worry about bullying and racism in the standard classroom. After 18 months of
uncertainty, and with so many Californians still centering their lives around
the home, some families may never return to brick-and-mortar schools.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“I have seen nothing like this in the last 27 years
that I’ve been reading and studying or following this area,” says Martin
Whitehead, spokesperson for the Homeschool Association of California.
Whitehead, who homeschooled his two daughters all the way through high school,
describes the pandemic increase as a “breakthrough” number.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>It’s hard to know exactly how big that number is in
California because the state doesn’t track how many students homeschool in its
many forms. Under the umbrella of the public school system, there are
independent study programs and homeschool charter programs. The traditional
route is where parents choose a curriculum and teach their kids themselves. To
get an estimate of how many parents are doing this, many turn to data on
private school affidavits.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/05/some-parents-find-a-long-term-solution-in-at-home-learning/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“They stuck to their anti-vax beliefs. Now these teachers
and school workers are out of jobs.” So writes Howard Blume in the <i>Los
Angeles Times.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two teachers, a teaching assistant and
a cafeteria manager — all were opposed to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for
Los Angeles school employees. One remains teaching, but lost a beloved
position; another was fired outright. An employee who won an exemption is out
of work anyway. And yet another gave in to a jab at the last minute, but only
because of a family crisis.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their anti-vaccine views are outliers
among some 73,000 colleagues, 95% of whom have had at least one shot. But Jamal
Y. Speakes Sr., Hovik Saponghian, Angela Karapetyan and Nadine Jackson paid a
price for holding to personal beliefs in the face of public-health policy
mandates and experts who cite strong evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe
and effective.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Los Angeles Unified School District
was among the first school systems in the nation to require employees to be vaccinated.
The Oct. 15 deadline prompted a last-minute surge among thousands who were
hesitant. No vaccine meant no entry onto a campus — and likely no job.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/stuck-anti-vax-beliefs-now-120013403.html">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Regarding Glenn Youngkin’s defeat of Terry McAuliffe in
the gubernatorial race in Virginia earlier this month, the American Enterprise
Institute’s Rick Hess asks, “Just what educational lessons should be taken from
what unfolded in the Old Dominion.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, to say this race was about
“education” is to say it was really about school closures, parental
frustration, and concerns that ideological extremists are calling the shots on
public education. Other than insisting that schools stayed closed too long last
year, that parents need to be heard, and that there are serious problems with
what falls under the label of Critical Race Theory, Youngkin didn’t get
especially concrete on education. This is not education policy as we’ve grown
used to debating it over much of the past two decades. Sure, Youngkin, a
private-equity executive, had the standard five-point plan, which featured
planks like “getting every student college or career ready,” “raising teacher
pay,” and creating charter schools, but his breakthrough on education wasn’t
fueled by his stance on accountability, standards, school spending, or the rest
of the familiar school improvement checklist. It was all about values,
frustration, and parental empowerment. And that is potent, deeply personal stuff.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second, while McAuliffe, Harris, and
the talking heads at MSNBC described Youngkin’s critique of CRT as a
race-baiting appeal to the base, a quick look at </span></i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/november/exit-polls/virginia/governor/0"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the polling</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> suggests something very different. In
an election where turnout was almost 50 percent higher than expected, Youngkin
won independents and made notable gains with women and minority voters. This
has a lot more in common with how Bill Clinton, Bush, and Obama used education
to court the middle than with how Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Biden used it to
energize the base in 2016 and 2020. The map suggests that going after the
ideological extremism underlying CRT helped Youngkin win back suburban voters that
Trump lost, a fact Democrats ignore at their peril.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.educationnext.org/youngkin-virginia-education-governor-crt-election/">here</a>.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On October 1, Governor Newsom announced
plans to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of vaccinations required to
attend school in-person when the vaccine receives full approval from the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) for middle and high school grades, making
California the first state in the nation to announce such a measure. Following
the other </span><a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/08/11/california-implements-first-in-the-nation-measure-to-encourage-teachers-and-school-staff-to-get-vaccinated/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">first-in-the-nation school
masking and staff vaccination measures</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
Governor Newsom announced,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The state already requires that
students are vaccinated against viruses that cause measles, mumps, and rubella
– there’s no reason why we wouldn’t do the same for COVID-19. Today’s measure,
just like our first-in-the-nation school masking and staff vaccination
requirements, is about protecting our children and school staff, and keeping
them in the classroom,” said Governor Newsom. “Vaccines work. It’s why
California leads the country in preventing school closures and has the lowest
case rates. We encourage other states to follow our lead to keep our kids safe
and prevent the spread of COVID-19.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But there is indeed a difference between the traditional
vaccines and the Covid vax<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. While children are
directly impacted by mumps, etc., they do not have a significant risk from
Covid, nor are they “super spreaders.” Teachers are far more likely to catch
the disease in the teachers’ lounge than in the classroom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Dr. Scott Atlas explains, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…it’s unconscionable that a society </span></i><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-scott-atlas-on-vaccine-mandates-for-children-natural-immunity-and-floridas-covid-19-surge_4013490.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">uses its children as shields</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for adults. The children do not have
significant risk from this illness.” He adds, “My role as a parent is to
protect my children. My role is not, and I will never use my children as
shields to somehow protect me. And that’s really just a heinous violation of
all moral principles in my view.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/01/california-becomes-first-state-in-nation-to-announce-covid-19-vaccine-requirements-for-schools/">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-scott-atlas-on-vaccine-mandates-for-children-natural-immunity-and-floridas-covid-19-surge_4013490.html">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It was announced at the end of September that enrollment
in the Los Angeles Unified School District “dropped by more than 27,000
students since last year, a decline of close to 6% — a much steeper slide than
in any recent year.”</p>
<p><i>Last year's enrollment total for pre-school through 12th grade was
466,229. This year's figure for that same date is 439,013, according to data
provided by L.A. Unified that will be presented to the school board Tuesday. </i></p>
<p><i>Other data released by L.A. Unified indicates other potential concerns.
The district estimates that between 70% and 80% of the school staff are on
target to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the district's deadline of
Oct. 15, indicating that thousands of employees face termination, which would exacerbate
another problem: more than 2,000 unfilled jobs.</i></p>
<p><i>"We’re still seeing the impact of COVID," said Veronica
Arreguin, the district's chief strategy officer, about the enrollment decline.
Arreguin also noted that much of the decline was expected, in line with many
years of dropping enrollment related to lower birth rates, families moving to
more affordable areas and other factors.</i></p>
<p><i>Even so, the shortfall is about twice what planners in the nation's
second-largest school district predicted. The district plans to act
aggressively to understand what is happening and what to do about it.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On a similar note, it had been reported in April that California’s
public schools lost more than 160,000 students or 2.6% during the 2020-2021
school year, the largest enrollment drop in two decades, which could lead to “serious
educational and financial challenges."</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/la-unified-enrollment-drops-by-more-than-27000-students-steepest-decline-in-years/ar-AAOUp4w?ocid=uxbndlbing">here</a>
and <a href="https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/california-public-school-enrollment-drops/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Anticipating an increase in student misbehavior,
California has released new discipline guidelines.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Schools should offer more counseling, suspend fewer
students and address the underlying mental health challenges of students who
misbehave in class, according to the state’s new school discipline guidelines.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The guidelines, released last month by the California
Department of Education, are intended to help schools navigate an anticipated
uptick in student misbehavior following more than a year of remote learning,
said department spokesperson Scott Roark.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Educators expect more disruption and difficulties from
some students due to the pandemic.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“Students in in-person attendance may exhibit
disruptive behaviors due to increased anxiety and depression. Students in
independent study may not complete assignments due to mental health barriers,”
Roark said. “A focus on social-emotional learning is more important in
addressing behavioral health.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The guidelines wrap up reforms of laws and policies
related to suspensions, expulsions and other forms of discipline in K-12
schools over the past several years. They were drawn up with input from Public
Counsel, a public interest law firm, and CADRE, a nonprofit focused on racial
disparities in south Los Angeles schools.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2021/anticipating-an-increase-in-student-misbehavior-california-releases-new-discipline-guidelines/661749">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On October 8, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 101 into law,
requiring California high school students to take an ethnic studies class to
graduate, starting with the class of 2029-2030.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“The inclusion of ethnic studies in the high school
curriculum is long overdue,” said Assemblymember Jose Medina, a Democrat from
Riverside who authored AB 101. “Students cannot have a full understanding of
the history of our state and nation without the inclusion of the contributions
and struggles of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian
Americans.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But not everyone is happy with the new law. In the lead-up
to Newsom’s signature, Holocaust survivors and their descendants urged the
governor to veto the bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“We are 74 organizational supporters of the California
Jewish community, who are deeply concerned about the ethnic studies requirement
bill, AB 101, and the enormously harmful impact we believe it will have on
Jewish students and the Jewish community if it becomes law. We strongly urge
you to veto this bill,” wrote the groups in their letter to Newsom today.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The organizations are alarmed because, although AB 101
was amended to include language expressing the Legislature’s intent that local
educational agencies (LEAs) “not use the portions of the draft model curriculum
that were not adopted by the Instructional Quality Commission due to concerns
related to bias, bigotry, and discrimination,” the bill does not, and by law
cannot, prevent an LEA from adopting any part of the overtly antisemitic first
draft of the ESMC. The first draft was opposed by 20,000 Californians, virtually
every Jewish organization in the state, and the Legislative Jewish Caucus,
whose members rightly warned that such a curriculum would “marginalize Jewish
students and fuel hatred and discrimination against the Jewish community.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn <a href="https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/ethnic-studies-requirement/">more</a>,
go here and <a href="https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2021/09/30/74-jewish-and-education-groups-demand-newsom-veto-ethnic-studies-requirement-bill/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On the school choice front, a lot is happening nationally
due to mask mandates and Critical Race Theory, among other issues.</p>
<p><i>In the first half of 2021, seven states—including Oklahoma neighbors
Arkansas and Missouri—enacted new school-choice programs. Five of these were
ESAs, which give parents an account they can use to pay for educational
expenses like private-school tuition or tutoring services. The other two were
tax-credit scholarships, which give donors a tax credit for contributing to
scholarship funds that help students attend private schools.</i></p>
<p><i>That’s far from all. Fourteen states expanded 21 existing school choice
programs in the first half of 2021. Oklahoma was one of these states, expanding
the cap on its tax-credit scholarship program from $3.5 million to $25 million.
Neighboring Arkansas and Kansas expanded student eligibility in their
school-choice programs, allowing more students to access choice.</i></p>
<p><i>In all, 18 states enacted or expanded 30 school-choice programs. There
are now 76 total school-choice programs—and counting!—in 32 states plus D.C.
and Puerto Rico. These programs serve over 600,000 students.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.ocpathink.org/post/seize-the-moment-to-give-families-a-universal-esa-in-2022">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A proposed 2022 California ballot initiative will try to
define “high-quality” education. Its backers hope to make it easier to
challenge teacher tenure and other laws that they claim harm students.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The Silicon Valley entrepreneur who unsuccessfully
took on teacher tenure in court is now supporting a constitutional amendment
aimed at requiring California to provide “high-quality” public education for
all students.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The effort expressly takes aim at state laws, policies
and regulations that “interfere with a right to a high-quality education.” It
also says that the proposed remedies “shall not include new mandates for taxes
or spending,” a strategy that some say will limit the options to provide a
“high-quality” education, should voters support the amendment in November 2022.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>David Welch, who underwrote the Vergara v. the State
of California and the California Teachers Association litigation in 2012, is
among those proposing the Constitutional Right to a High Quality Public
Education Act, which they submitted on Thursday to the California attorney
general.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>…The current wording of the Constitution guarantees
Californians only a “free public education.” The Legislature and the courts
would have to define what constitutes “high quality.” But adding that phrase as
a constitutional right would “finally empower public school parents with a seat
at the table” to advocate for students, the proponents said in a statement
preceding the amendment.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The new wording would assert that any law, regulation,
policy or official action that “does not put the interests of students first”
shall be deemed to interfere with a right to a high-quality education.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2021/proposed-2022-california-ballot-initiative-sets-stage-to-define-high-quality-education/662172">here</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Larry Sand</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CTEN President</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Due to the Covid pandemic, online learning became a
reality throughout much of the country, and it might stick around in some
places. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard Barrera, board president of San
Diego Unified, told <i>Voice of San Diego</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’ve learned a lot from COVID – and
most of it has been a nightmare – but some of it has been positive and creating
an online academy is a benefit we can take out of the pandemic.,” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">San Diego Unified is one of many
districts across the county that plan to do just that. Any student in
transitional kindergarten through 12th grade will be allowed to learn online if
they choose, Barrera said.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exactly why families choose to stay
online will vary. The largest chunk may still fear the effects of COVID-19. But
many reasons go beyond the pandemic. Some students with severe anxiety or those
who have experienced bullying may learn better online.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To continue reading,
go </span><a href="https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/students-and-teachers-got-better-at-online-learning-now-its-here-to-stay-2/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">here</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Additionally, the pandemic has been a boon to
homeschooling. According to a new report from Bellwether Education Partners, nearly
2.6 million kids nationwide have switched from traditional school to homeschooling
since the pandemic began. Now the total number of homeschooled kids sits at
about 5 million, which is more than 11% of U.S. households.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And it's not just white families who are moving to
homeschooling: 9.7% of white families with kids have pulled out of traditional
education, as have 12.1% of Hispanic families, 8.8% of Asian families and 16.1%
of Black families.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Families' reasons for turning to homeschooling are
varied. For the first time in modern history, parents got a chance to observe
their children's education up close, at home. Many are deciding they want more
individualized learning options for their kids, whether that's more attention
from educators or more personalized lesson plans, says Alex Spurrier, a senior
analyst at Bellwether and one of the authors of the report.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Some families are fed up with virtual learning, while
others don't feel safe sending kids to school while the pandemic still rages
on.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Many families of color are choosing to homeschool
their children because they're not satisfied with how schools are teaching kids
about race and racism against the backdrop of social justice protests and
rising Asian hate.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"As an
African American, I didn't like the way the school was addressing some of the
cultural things going on," says Torlecia Bates, a mother of three in
Richmond, Virginia, who switched to homeschooling during the pandemic.
"Someone asked me when I’ll return my kids to public school and I said,
'When I show up in the textbooks, and I’m represented well and accurately.'</i>"</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.axios.com/homeschooling-pandemic-critical-mass-013e4f01-c962-4e38-8cb7-8079bb597540.html">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, in the school choice realm, Florida has expanded
its voucher program to accommodate parents during the mask wars.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The board then invoked an existing law
to clarify eligibility for the Hope Scholarship, which is meant to protect
children against bullying, adding “COVID-19 harassment” as a prohibited form of
discrimination. It defined this as “any threatening, discriminatory, insulting,
or dehumanizing verbal, written or physical conduct” students suffer as a
result of COVID-19 protocols such as mask or testing requirements and isolation
measures that “have the effect of substantially interfering with a student’s
educational performance.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’re not going to hurt kids. We’re
not going to pull money that’s going to hurt kids in any way,” said board
member Ben Gibson.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But he said the rule the board approved
has the effect of law, and that if school districts don’t comply, the board
could hold up the transfer of state money.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If a parent wants their child to wear
a mask at school, they should have that right. If a parent doesn’t want their
child to wear a mask at school, they should have that right,” Gibson said.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In response to the governor’s order,
the Department of Health approved a rule saying students can wear masks, but
school districts must allow parents to opt their children out of any local
mandates.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-miami-coronavirus-pandemic-74bda875808bad100010bee9430242cb">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Meanwhile, the embattled San Francisco school board will
have to go through a recall election.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The effort to recall three San
Francisco school board members hit a critical milestone, reaching 70,000
signatures, virtually ensuring an election late this year or early next,
organizers said Monday.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Overall we’re so gratified and humbled
by the outpouring of support for the school board recall from people in every
walk of life and from every part of the city,” said Siva Raj, a parent and
organizer of the recall.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raj said they will submit the
signatures for the recall of school board President Gabriela López, Vice
President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins on Sept. 7.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The effort reflects anger and
frustration among San Francisco families after public schools remained closed
much of last school year as Bay Area other districts and private schools
reopened.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While distance learning devastated many
families, the board spent significant time and energy on renaming 44 schools, a
decision later reversed, and ending the merit-based admission to academically
elite Lowell High School.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-school-board-recall-hits-critical-16423163.php">go</a>
here. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">And it’s not only San Francisco that is a hot spot for
school board members. All over the country, vituperative board meetings have
seen many members quit or be recalled. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Police have been called to intervene in places
including Vail, where parents protesting a mask mandate pushed their way into a
board room in April, and in Mesa County, Colorado, where Doug Levinson was
among school board members escorted to their cars by officers who had been
unable to de-escalate a raucous Aug. 17 meeting. “Why am I doing this?”
Levinson asked himself.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Kurt Thigpen wrote in leaving the Washoe County,
Nevada, school board that he considered suicide amid relentless bullying and
threats led by people who didn’t live in the county, let alone have children in
the schools. “I was constantly looking over my shoulder,” he wrote in July.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Susan Crenshaw resigned from the Craig County,
Virginia, school board this month with more than a year left in her term after
being “blindsided,” she said, by her board’s decision to defy the state’s mask
mandate in a move that she said felt more driven by political than educational
considerations.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“This is something that’s come into play against
government overreach and tyranny and other things that have absolutely nothing
to do with the education of children,” said Crenshaw, who taught for 31 years
and whose district has just 500 students. “It’s a bigger issue than the mask. I
just feel like the mask is the spark or trigger that got this dialogue
started.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>While experts say the widespread use of masks can
effectively limit virus transmission in school buildings, opponents say they
restrict breathing and the ability of children to read social cues. Conflicts
over masks have put some boards in Florida, Texas and Arizona at odds with
their Republican governors.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In several states, embattled board members who do not
resign are facing recall efforts. Ballotpedia lists 59 school board recall
efforts against 147 board members in 2021.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-school-boards-35db5c9eec87b85ca8eb95a64c2f6dd7">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Between Covid and the rise of Critical Race Theory, teacher
union leaders have been in the news quite frequently. In July, AFT president
Randi Weingarten gave a 74-minute talk at an online conference in which she
averred “Let’s be clear: critical race theory is not taught in elementary
schools or high schools. It’s a method of examination taught in law school and
college that helps analyze whether systemic racism exists—and, in particular,
whether it has an effect on law and public policy.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How she could make such a statement in light of overwhelming
evidence to the contrary is mind-numbing. For example,</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Arizona Department of Education has created an “equity” toolkit, which claims
that </span><a href="https://christopherrufo.com/racism-in-the-cradle/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">babies show the first signs
of racism at three months old</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and that white children become full racists – “strongly biased in favor of
whiteness” – by age five. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
</span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/identity-politics-in-cupertino-california-elementary-school"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cupertino, CA</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> third-graders are forced to
deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their
“power and privilege.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
principal of a school in New York City sent white parents a “tool for action,”
which tells them they must become “</span><a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2021/02/16/ny-school-principal-sends-tool-for-action-to-white-parents-telling-them-to-become-white-traitors/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">white traitors</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” and then advocate for full “white
abolition.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Seattle, there was a training session for teachers in which schools were deemed
guilty of “</span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/racial-equity-programs-seattle-schools"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spirit murder</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” against black students. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
</span><a href="https://cferfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Filed-SDUSD-COMPLAINT.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">San Diego Unified School
District</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> orders their
students to “confront and examine your white privilege” and to “acknowledge
when you feel white fragility.” Additionally, children are told to “understand
the impact of white supremacy in your work.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, if CRT were not being taught, why was Ibram X.
Kendi, probably the most vocal and aggressive CRT proponent in the country,
speak at the conference? His talk was touted as, “Hear from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
in this free-ranging <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/b240a6dd-806c-4fdd-920b-a8a2f8d2b062/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce"><span style="color: blue;">discussion with student activists</span></a> and AFT members
on his scholarship and on developing anti-racist mindsets and actions inside
and outside classrooms.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To learn more, go </span><a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/confronting-randis-twaddle/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">here</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another teacher union
leader, Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles,
also said some rather interesting things recently. In a lengthy and very
revealing interview for <i>Los Angeles Magazine</i>, </span>she was asked how
her insistence on keeping L.A.’s schools mostly locked down over the last year
and a half may have impacted the city’s 600,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade
students.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>There is no such thing as learning loss. Our kids
didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their
times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned
critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a
protest. They know the words <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">insurrection </span></em>and <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">coup</span></em>.
</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Myart-Cruz</span>
even went so far as to suggest that “learning loss” is a fake crisis marketed
by shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/cecily-myart-cruz-teachers-union/">here</a><i>.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Due to union “opt-out windows,”
which are very possibly illegal, this may be the time to quit if you are
planning to do so. If you have any questions about the process, or have
experienced any problems because of your decision to leave your union, please
let us know and we will do our best to help you – possibly getting you legal
assistance, if necessary. We will also be able to share your concerns with
other teachers across the state. And talking about sharing, please pass this
email along to your colleagues and encourage them to join us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, anyone wishing
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">With schools getting ready to open, “Confusion over mask
mandate for California schools sparks tension between districts and parents,”
reports Diana Lambert in <i>EdSource</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Shifting rules around mask mandates at schools are
confusing and angering parents who are focusing their frustration on local
school districts.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Adding to the confusion: Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom
decided to let local school districts decide how to deal with students who
refuse to follow the state’s mask mandate. Now, parents who don’t want their
children to wear masks are showing up at school board meetings to demand their
districts disregard the mandate.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“As the confusion increases, more parents are speaking
out, and this is where the public pressure is going to mount on boards,” said
Mike Walsh, president of the Butte County Office of Education and former
president of the California School Boards Association.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Board meetings have become particularly challenging in
rural areas that have low Covid-19 transmission rates and where schools were
open most of last year.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“North state parents say they aren’t going to send
their kids back to school if they have to wear masks,” said Richard DuVarney,
Tehama County superintendent of schools. “They think the mental health risks
outweigh the risk of their children contracting Covid.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Some parents protesting masks at schools don’t see the
state guidance as a mandate or don’t care if it is required. Some interpret the
governor’s decision to let school districts decide how to enforce the mandate
as license to make masks optional.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2021/confusion-over-mask-mandate-for-california-schools-sparks-tension-between-districts-and-parents/658759">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Some parents are so fed up with the mask mandates, they
are suing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two parent groups
filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and state health officials
Thursday over rules requiring all California’s school kids to wear face masks
for protection against COVID-19 when they return to class in the fall term that
begins next month.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The groups, Let
Them Breathe and Reopen California Schools, filed the lawsuit in San Diego
County Superior Court against Newsom, State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomas
Aragon, Health and Human Services secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly and Dr. Naomi
Bardach, an advisor to the state on school pandemic safety.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A return to a normal
school year is crucial to the mental and physical health recovery for student
across California who have endured months of isolation,” said Jonathan
Zachreson, founder of Reopen California Schools, an advocacy organization of
nearly 16,000 California public school parents.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At least one other lawsuit has been filed over mask
requirements in school. The father of a rising</span></i><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/palo-alto-father-sues-school-district-after-son-not-allowed-in-class-without-mask/" target="_blank"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> senior at Palo Alto
High School sued the school district</span></i></a><i><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> this month after his son was denied entry to a
summer history class for not wearing a mask.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/07/22/parent-groups-sue-state-over-school-mask-mandate-2/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="subheading">Also, regarding Covid, the Ninth Circuit ruled that
California violated the constitutional rights of parents whose children were at
private schools when Gov. Newsom’s administration forced those schools to shut
down during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The court’s ruling:</p>
<p><i>"We reach a different conclusion, however, as to the State's
interference in the in-person provision of private education to the children of
five of the Plaintiffs in this case. California's forced closure of their
private schools implicates a right that has long been considered fundamental
under the applicable caselaw—the right of parents to control their children's
education and to choose their children's educational forum."</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://newsbinding.com/news/ninth-circuit-gavin-newsoms-california-violated-private-school-parents-rights-with-shutdown/">here</a>
and <a href="https://reason.com/2021/07/30/families-have-a-new-reason-to-flee-public-schools/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It’s not only masking and school closures that are of
concern to parents in California. With a mandatory ethnic studies class for
high schoolers on the horizon – the content of which will be determined by each
school district – battles are underway all over the state. At a recent Orange
County Board of Education forum on ethnic studies,</p>
<p><i>Members of “Truth in Education” on Tuesday said their group was formed to
counter the Orange County school board’s opposition to ethnic studies and
critical race theory. They also said they will emphasize the importance of
teaching ethnic studies, not just in Orange County but nationwide.</i></p>
<p><i>“The current system, our system, your children’s system, is outdated. It
teaches hate and rewards bigotry,” said Ian Scruton, a student from Capistrano
Unified School District who gathered with some 20 fellow “Truth in Education”
members outside Eastbluff Elementary School in Newport Beach.</i></p>
<p>But, elsewhere in Orange County, there is a different opinion.</p>
<p><i>Parents like Henny Abraham of Costa Mesa criticized proposals to
introduce a curriculum that she said is divisive.</i></p>
<p><i>“I don’t know what my kids are going to be told when they walk into
school as my 6-year old is about to enter first grade,” Abraham said. “Is he
privileged because he’s half-white? Or is he a victim because he’s half Persian
and a minority?”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2021/07/27/new-group-clashes-with-o-c-board-of-education-over-ethnic-studies/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">With Governor Newsom facing a recall, the money has been
flying into his campaign, and a lot is coming from the teachers unions.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>A new CalMatters analysis of the donors to the main
anti-recall committee found that organized labor threw Newsom the largest
financial lifeline — roughly 45% of the total, including $1.8 million from the
teachers union and $1.75 million from the prison guards this week.</i></p>
<p class="gntarbp"><i>…First, the California Correctional Peace Officers
Association threw in $1.75 million. Then came the California Teachers
Association with $1.8 million.</i></p>
<p class="gntarbp"><i>Just days after the check from the teachers landed in
Newsom’s campaign account, he gave the closing keynote speech today at the
union’s summer digital meeting. He applauded the union’s hard-fought
legislative accomplishments, which, incidentally, served as a reminder to the
teachers that the governor had helped secure them.</i></p>
<p class="gntarbp"><i>Though the teachers were the largest funder of Newsom’s
2018 campaign, that relationship got complicated last spring as Newsom and the
union sparred first over when teachers would get vaccines, then how
quickly schools should reopen.</i></p>
<p class="gntarbp"><i>But now, Newsom “is facing opponents who are funded by a
network that wants to dismantle public education. The choice is stark and
clear,” union president E. Toby Boyd said in a statement Wednesday.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/08/01/gavin-newsom-raises-39-million-fend-off-california-recall-election/5448836001/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Needless to say, Newsom’s opponents have very different
views on, well, everything. In the education realm, they want to empower parents
with school choice.</p>
<p><i>When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools, the grades and mental
health of millions of students declined. Several of the leading Republican
challengers in the upcoming recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom see this
crisis as an opportunity. </i></p>
<p><i>Their solution: more school choice. </i></p>
<p><i>The candidates — CalMatters interviewed John Cox, Larry Elder, Kevin
Kiley and Doug Ose for this article — want to “empower” parents by sending
state dollars directly to the families rather than school districts. Parents
can take that $14,000 dollars of per-pupil spending from the state to any
traditional public, charter or private school they like.</i></p>
<p><i>Turning parents into consumers, the candidates say, will cultivate
competition between schools. Parents will “vote with their feet,” and if the
state plunges the public school system into the free market, schools will
finally have to provide a high-quality education to stay afloat.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://calmatters.org/education/2021/07/newsom-recall-candidates-education/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“State finds LA public school district kept millions of
federal funds from Catholic schools” read the scandalous headline in the July
29<sup>th</sup> <i>Washington Post.</i></p>
<p class="font--article-body"><i>The state of California has found that the Los
Angeles public school district violated federal law in the manner it slashed
funding for low-income and disadvantaged students who attend Catholic schools.
The decision will force the district to recalculate and likely reinstate
millions of dollars to parochial schools run by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.</i></p>
<p class="font--article-body"><i>The archdiocese filed a complaint against the
district in September 2019, after only 17 schools were declared eligible for
Title I funds, provided to help low-income students meet challenging state
academic standards, according to a June 25 report. The previous school year,
more than 100 schools were cleared to get money under the program.</i></p>
<p class="font--article-body"><i>Los Angeles Unified School District “has failed
to provide equitable services to (archdiocesan) schools,” state officials said
in the report, adding that the district “engaged in a pattern of arbitrary
decisions” without consulting the archdiocese and in violation of federal and
state law.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/state-finds-la-public-school-district-kept-millions-of-federal-funds-from-catholic-schools/2021/07/29/063ac266-f0bd-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8_story.html">here</a>.</p>
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your union, please let us know and we will do our best to help you – possibly
getting you legal assistance, if necessary. We will also be able to share your
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please pass this email along to your colleagues and encourage them to join us.</span></a></p>
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<p> </p>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-91419591391306111272021-07-21T07:43:00.002-07:002021-07-21T07:43:50.578-07:00<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On July 12<sup>th</sup>, hours after issuing guidance
that schools must send home students who refuse to wear masks indoors at
schools in the fall, the California Department of Public Health rescinded its
order. As John Fensterwald reports in <i>EdSource,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The overall requirement that students
and adults must wear masks inside school buildings will remain, but the new position
will be that local schools can decide for themselves how to deal with
noncompliant students, as they have for the past year, Alex Stack, a spokesman
for Gov. Gavin Newsom, said Monday. Stack said revisions to the guidance,
clarifying the issue, will be released on Tuesday. He didn’t cite a reason for
the change.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span></i><a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx?_cldee=amZlbnN0ZXJ3YWxkQGVkc291cmNlLm9yZw%3d%3d&recipientid=contact-8b8dc6e8b738e61180ef005056b02a09-8b142a7f03e747e09af5290c619521ea&esid=f79c65e8-65e3-eb11-8145-005056b02a09" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">guidance
published Monday afternoon</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
said that schools “must exclude students from campus” who are not wearing a
mask indoors and who refuse to wear one that the school provides. It had
elaborated on a masking requirement that the Public Health Department announced
on Friday.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">California’s mask requirement differs
from the guidance issued last week by the Centers for Disease Control, which
said only unvaccinated students and staff would be required to wear masks.
However, the CDC said states do have the discretion to impose additional
protections as conditions warrant.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2021/california-backtracks-will-let-local-schools-decide-how-to-enforce-mask-requirement/657969">here</a>.</p>
<p class="speakable">The state also has had second thoughts on the proposed math
curriculum. As reported by Fox News, </p>
<p class="speakable"><i>The </i><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">California</span></i></a><i> Board
of Education is set to push back against implementing an overhaul of its
mathematics </i><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/education" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">curriculum</span></i></a><i> after
opponents argued the plan needlessly inserts politics and social justice
initiatives into lessons. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"California is on the verge of
politicizing K-12 math in a potentially disastrous way. This postponement means
the State Board of Education has heard the message loud and clear. STEM leaders
don’t want California students left behind by introducing politics into the
math curriculum," said in a statement Dr. Williamson M. Evers, a senior
fellow of the </span></i><a href="https://www.independent.org/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=2287" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Independent
Institute</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The California board is slated to
postpone implementing its proposed Mathematics Curriculum Framework during a
Wednesday meeting, pushing final action on the curriculum to May 2022, </span></i><a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr21/agenda202107.asp" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">according to the board’s
agenda for this month</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The move comes after hundreds of former
and current professionals working in science, math, and engineering fields, as
well as educators and venture capitalists, </span></i><a href="https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13658" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">signed an open letter
denouncing the plan</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
as one that will "de-mathematize math" and instead insert
"environmental and social justice" teachings into curriculum.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-math-curriculum-equity-pushed-back">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On the Critical Race Theory front, parents are fighting
back. Parents Defending Education, a “national grassroots organization working
to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” believes
children’s education “should be based on scholarship and facts, and should
nurture their development into the happy, resilient, free-thinking, educated
citizens every democracy needs. Our classrooms should include rigorous
instruction in history, civics, literature, math, the sciences, and the ideas
and values that enrich our country.” On the group’s homepage, there’s a map where
can you can locate school districts and learn about parent organizations,
incidents and FOIAs.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To visit the PDE website, go <a href="https://defendinged.org/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Re CRT in California, the Hayward Unified School District
(HUSD) Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a new $40 million ethnic
studies policy, according to <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tammi Rossman-Benjamin</span></em>. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In its </i><a href="https://www.husd.us/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?id=1624611250631" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">press release</span></i></a><i>,
the district noted, “The policy and efforts to develop an Ethnic Studies
framework are informed by and will include Critical Race Theory and the
Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>… The “Liberated” curriculum adopted by Hayward
is the brainchild of the </i><a href="http://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute</span></i></a><i> (LESMC),
a for-profit educational consulting firm established by the authors of the
rejected first-draft of the ESMC as a lucrative means of peddling a version of
their rejected draft — including its anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist lessons — in
school districts throughout the state. The anti-Zionist tenets of the
“Liberated” curriculum were on display at a May 26 ethnic studies teacher
training workshop for HUSD teachers, where they learned, “In Palestine…the
people who are seeking to maintain systems of oppression and racial domination
are sharing ideologies, strategies and weapons. For example, police strategies
have been transnationalized, with the US and Israeli police departments
exchanging tactics… Let’s continue to share ideas and resources and hold brave
conversations [in classrooms]…We continue to see the ethnic cleansing and
genocide of Palestinians due to settler colonialism.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/liberated-ethnic-studies-curriculum-fails-to-liberate-california-schools-from-anti-semitism/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The national teachers unions are certainly embracing CRT.
At its yearly convention earlier this month, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
National Education Association delegates adopted </span><a href="https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-00a/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New Business Item A</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
which, among other things has NEA “supporting and leading campaigns that result
in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical
race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle
Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12
and higher education.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-002/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NBI 2</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, which also passed,
claims that attacks on anti-racist teachers are increasing. To fight back, “NEA
will research the organizations attacking educators doing anti-racist work
and/or use the research already done and put together a list of resources and
recommendations for state affiliates, locals, and individual educators to
utilize when they are attacked.” While only the Heritage Foundation was
mentioned in the NBI, the list of anti-CRTers is growing by the day. Hence, the
$56,500 the union will set aside for its opposition research may not be nearly
enough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On a similar note, </span><a href="https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-018/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NBI 18</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, which was adopted,
directs NEA to “identify, compile, and share on NEA EdCommunities, existing
‘decolonizing the curriculum’ resources to educators seeking to be anti-racist
in its classrooms and use existing communications and social media to promote
it through their affiliates so that rank and file educators can utilize the
resources in the classrooms.” To support its CRT work, NEA is offering a “</span><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/lgOpK-NX00GOI0Tu-W7F_w2"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Confronting White
Nationalism in Schools” toolkit</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-039/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NBI 39</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> continues the CRT
theme and has the union joining forces with two Marxist groups – Black Lives
Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project – to push their agenda, which
includes providing a study that “critiques empire, white supremacy,
anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy,
capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression
at the intersections of our society.” The NBI also maintains that “October 14 –
George Floyd’s birthday – should be used as a national day of action to teach
lessons about structural racism and oppression.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/decolonizing-the-curriculum-confronting-white-nationalism-and-combatting-period-poverty/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“New federal data confirms pandemic’s blow to K-12
enrollment, with drop of 1.5 million students; pre-K experiences 22 percent
decline” writes Kevin Mahnken in <i>LA School Report</i>.</p>
<p><span class="drop-cap"><i>D</i></span><i>ata released last month revealed
a startling decline in the number of American children attending public
schools: Total K-12 enrollment dropped by roughly 3 percent in 2020-21 compared
with the previous school year.</i></p>
<p><i>The overall number obscures an even more dramatic drop among the youngest
children. According to the data circulated by the National Center for Education
Statistics — the federal agency charged with analyzing and disseminating
information about schools and education — the combined number of preschool and
kindergarten students decreased by 13 percent last year. All told, the decline
is the largest since the turn of the century.</i></p>
<p><i>U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that in order to help
students recover from the setbacks of the last year, educators needed to
re-engage with families whose ties to schools had been frayed by COVID-related
upheaval.</i></p>
<p>To learn more, go <a href="http://laschoolreport.com/new-federal-data-confirms-pandemics-blow-to-k-12-enrollment-with-drop-of-1-5-million-students-pre-k-experiences-22-percent-decline/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Between the move toward CRT and the Covid-related
lockdowns, school choice is thriving across the country. As Mike McShane writes
in <i>Forbes</i>,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>It is difficult to understate just how huge a year
school choice has had in state legislatures across the nation. When I last
wrote about it, </i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemcshane/2021/05/24/oh-what-a-year-for-school-choice/?sh=1164ceb96790" target="_self" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemcshane/2021/05/24/oh-what-a-year-for-school-choice/?sh=1164ceb96790"><i><span style="color: blue;">in late May</span></i></a><i>, 13 states had created five
new private school choice programs and expanded 13 existing ones. Those numbers
are now up to 18 states creating seven new programs and expanding 21 existing
ones. While we have seen years before with large numbers of new programs
enacted, we have not seen the depth, breadth, size, and scope of new programs and
program expansions that we have seen in 2021.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>…This will be the legacy of the coronavirus on the
American education system. It was finally made clear to a critical mass of
legislators that families need options, and the one-size-fits-all nature of the
contemporary public education system is not fit for purpose in an uncertain and
changing world. Funding a more diverse and decentralized system means creating
a more resilient system and a system better tuned to the needs of the people it
serves.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemcshane/2021/07/12/school-choice-keeps-winning/">here</a>.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>CalMatters</i> asks an important question, “Can
California withstand a teacher retirement boom?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier this year, the California State
Teachers Retirement System issued an ominous statement: teacher retirements in
California are projected to hit nearly record-breaking heights in 2021.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The statement, which came in the form
of </span></i><a href="https://www.calstrs.com/blog-entry/understanding-increase-teacher-retirements"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a February blog post</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, said that the numbers will be almost
as bad as the year after the Great Recession when more than 16,000 teachers
retired. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While short term effects are being felt
in some areas, in many school districts the tsunami of retirements is barely
registering as a ripple. While interviews with administrators, teachers, and
union leaders do not paint a rosy picture of the situation, neither is it
expected to be crippling. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-teacher-retirement/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Critical Race Theory has made its way into many areas of
American life, notably its schools. But just what is it? Christopher Rufo,
knowledgeable on all things CRT, has come out with a “briefing book.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Critical race theory is an academic discipline that
holds that the United States is a nation founded on white supremacy and
oppression, and that these forces are still at the root of our society. Critical
race theorists believe that American institutions, such as the Constitution and
legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere “camouflages” for naked
racial domination. They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition:
it simply becomes more subtle, sophisticated, and insidious over the course of
history. In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist
dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, replacing the class categories of
bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of White and Black.
But the basic conclusion is the same: in order to liberate man, society must be
fundamentally transformed through moral, economic, and political revolution.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">He gives several examples of what happens when CRT makes
its way into schools.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">San
Diego Public Schools accused white teachers of being colonizers on stolen
Native American land and told them “you are racist” and “you are upholding
racist ideas, structures, and policies.” They recommended that the teachers
undergo “antiracist therapy.” </span></i><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/radicalism-in-san-diego-schools"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Link.</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Cupertino, California, elementary school forced third-graders to deconstruct
their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their
“power and privilege.” They separated the eight-year-old children into
oppressors and oppressed. </span></i><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/identity-politics-in-cupertino-california-elementary-school"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Link.</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><i>Santa Clara County Office of Education
denounced the United States as a “parasitic system” based on the “invasion” of
“white male settlers” and encouraged teachers to “cash in on kids’ inherent
empathy” in order to recruit them into political activism. </i><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/california-ethnic-studies-programs-merchants-of-revolution"><i><span style="color: blue;">Link.</span></i></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="http://christopherrufo.com/crt-briefing-book/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The public is fighting back, however.
The proposed California </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-cancel-math-class-11621355858"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">math framework</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> recommended eight times that teachers
use “</span><a href="https://equitablemath.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in
Mathematics Instruction</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
” as a resource. This radical toolkit insists that addressing student errors,
focusing on getting the right answer, and requiring students to show their work
is a form of white supremacy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, due to citizen outrage during
the “public comments” period, the </span><a href="https://edsource.org/2021/california-math-guidance-sparks-new-curriculum-controversy-among-parents/655272"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">state walked back</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> some of its new math mandates, notably
dropping </span><a href="https://equitablemath.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The commission agreed to remove
references to the toolkit from the draft framework last week, stating it was
“inconsistent with teaching to the standards.” But the war is not
over. The framework has not been finalized, and the California Department
of Education will hold another public review soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For more info, go <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Covid pandemic has paved the way for many changes in
the field of education. With virtual learning, cameras became <i>de rigeur</i>,
and many parents got a “Zoom-eye” view of just what teachers are – and are not
– teaching. While most educators have performed admirably, there are, regrettably,
some exceptions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kimberly Newman, a middle school
science teacher in California’s Palmdale school district, thought she had
disconnected a Zoom call during which she had helped a student, who’d had
trouble with his internet connection, catch up on what he had missed in class.
The child’s mother </span></i><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-28/palmdale-teacher-racist-rant" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">heard
Newman tell another person in her house</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that she thought the family was making
up its connection problems to get the student out of turning in assignments on
time, because they are Black.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the </span></i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/30/california-teacher-zoom-racist-rant/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">recording</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Newman is heard saying: “Your son has
learned to lie to people and make excuses. Because you taught him to make
excuses. That nothing is his fault. This is what Black people do. White people
do it too, but Black people do it way more.” Later, she called the family
“pieces of s--t.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">While acknowledging a downside, Mike Petrilli, <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">president
of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, </span></em>makes the case for cameras:</p>
<p><i>Fundamentally, many teachers see livestreams and video recordings as
infringements on their professional autonomy. Indeed, the California Teachers
Association asserted as much this past summer, when it pointed to a 1976 state
law that is said to forbid classroom recordings not authorized by the
individual teacher on camera, as state officials moved to require daily live
video instruction during pandemic-related closures. In some ways, this is an
understandable concern. How would office workers, for example, like it if
anyone could watch them do their work (or not) all day long?</i></p>
<p><i>But that misses the point. Teachers are professionals, yes, but teaching
is a fundamentally public act, especially in public schools. It’s a bit like
the role that judges play in criminal trials. Some states allow such trials to
be broadcast live, so that judges’ performances are transparent, for the whole world
to see. But of course when the judges go into their chambers, the cameras don’t
follow. So too with teachers. When they are providing live instruction in the
classroom, there should be no expectation of privacy. Other parts of the job,
like lesson planning and grading, should remain sacrosanct.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.edweek.org/technology/like-police-officers-educators-have-been-caught-on-camera-behaving-badly/2021/06">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.educationnext.org/post-covid-case-classroom-cameras-pandemic-ends-keep-teachers-cameras-on/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Another change precipitated by the pandemic, has been the
rapid expansion of school choice. It’s important to note that, historically,
once a choice measure takes hold, it becomes permanent. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
<i>School choice advocates across the country have been able to capitalize on
the dismay many parents felt when their district schools stayed shuttered for
all or most of the year. Legislation passed even in states such as Kentucky and
West Virginia where teachers unions have been able to flex their muscles in
recent years with “</i></span><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/red-for-ed-movement-teachers-unions-covid-19" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">red for ed</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” demonstrations that led to salary
increases.</span></i></p><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“There are some parents that hadn’t considered school choice before that have
considered it as a result of the pandemic,” says Jake Logan, president of the
Arizona Charter Schools Association. “Parents like the opportunity to choose,
and the pandemic gave them a reason to think about their children’s school in a
way that they hadn’t before.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…</span>It’s clear at
this point that school choice has increased support, certainly in red states.
States that were long resistant have now opened up. However small their initial
programs may be, history shows that once tax-credit scholarships and ESAs and
the like are introduced, they tend to expand, not contract.<br />
<br />
In more fertile states, legislators recognized that this was the moment to put
forward more ambitious proposals, and some of them hit it big.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.governing.com/now/school-choice-advocates-enjoy-their-best-year-ever">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the union front, the
United Educators of San Francisco declared its </span><a href="http://araborganizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/5-19-21_Resolution-in-Solidarity-with-the-Palestinian-People.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">solidarity with the
Palestinian people</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by supporting the
Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. The union also
called for President Biden to stop aid to Israel, but after receiving some
angry pushback from the Jewish community, the union issued a </span><a href="https://www.jweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/UESF-Reaffirmation-of-Our-Condemnation-of-Anti-Semitism-and-Support-for-Rights-of-Palestinians-and-Israelis-to-Live-in-Peace.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">second resolution</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in which it added a condemnation of
some Hamas’ actions. But the new document left its BDS stance intact, and still
refers to “the forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in
East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood” and “Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.” The
union makes no mention of the fact that the expulsions were for non-payment of
rent, and the airstrikes were in response to an onslaught of rockets being
fired from Gaza.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the same time, members of United
Teachers of Los Angeles voted to support a resolution to “</span><a href="https://www.leftvoice.org/utla-chapter-chairs-pass-resolution-calling-for-end-of-us-aid-to-israel/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stand in solidarity with the
Palestinian people</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> because of the 3.8
billion dollars annually that the US government gives to Israel, thus directly
using our tax dollars to fund apartheid and war crimes.” It should be noted
that the UTLA resolution came from a group of chapter chairs (campus
representatives), not the UTLA as a whole. In fact, the union leadership issued
a statement after the resolution went public, explaining that it is not an </span><a href="https://www.utla.net/news/statement-middle-east-conflict"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">official union document</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, but that it would be taken up by the
UTLA House of Representatives, its highest decision-making body at their next
meeting in September. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, the parent-led </span><a href="https://www.calstudentsunited.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">California Students United</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
isn’t buying the union’s disclaimer, and in in a </span><a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CA-Students-United-anti-semitism-letter-1.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blistering five-page
denunciation</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> addressed to UTLA
president Cecily Myart-Cruz, the organization demands “an unequivocal apology
for the anti-Semitism and intolerance coming from you and the union you lead.
Especially in the wake of the recent spike in attacks on Jews, your
anti-Semitism is not only offensive, it endangers thousands of teachers,
parents, and especially children in the LAUSD and beyond.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/utla-representatives-endorse-bds-movement/">here</a>
and <a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CA-Students-United-anti-semitism-letter-1.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Want to read a good book on education? Try Barry
Garelick’s very enjoyable <i>Out on Good Behavior: Teaching math while looking
over your shoulder</i>. From my review on Amazon:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="a-size-base"><i>Barry Garelick has written a
highly entertaining book about a very serious subject. As a former math
teacher, I am well aware of the ongoing parade of edu-fads filled with arcane
new-speak that are supposed to improve the teaching of math. Garelick wisely
points out the shortcomings of these anti-traditionalist methods, and does so
with humor. You also get to know the educrats he must deal with on a regular
basis. My only gripe is that the book is too short. I can only hope he does a
follow up!</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="a-size-base">To learn more about the book and
order a copy, go </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Out-Good-Behavior-Teaching-shoulder/dp/1913622444/">here</a><span class="a-size-base">.</span></p>
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<p> </p>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-54423498467858480522021-05-19T07:46:00.004-07:002021-05-19T07:46:53.198-07:00<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">Dear Colleague,
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>EdSource </i>reports that although 87 percent of
California’s public schools have reopened for some form of in-person
instruction, “fewer than half of students have returned either full time or
part time in a hybrid model.”</p>
<p class="dropcap"><i>A total of 55% of all public school students, including
those in charter schools, were at home, in distance learning, as of April 30,
according to an EdSource analysis of new data released by the state.</i></p>
<p><i>EdSource found that two-thirds of students in district schools with the
largest proportions of<span style="color: #333333;"> low-income families were in
distance learning, compared with only 43% of students in schools with the fewest
low-income families — a disparity that may partly explain a widening learning
gap between wealthy and poor students that</span> researchers and teachers
suspect the pandemic has enlarged.</i></p>
<p><i>Higher Covid rates in poor communities contributed to the disparity.
Parents in highly infected areas have been reluctant to send their children
back to school, and teachers in those areas resisted returning. Parents in low
transmission areas, meanwhile, pressured school boards to reopen.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Only 13% of public school students and 12% of charter
school students have resumed a normal five-day-a-week school schedule.</i> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Public Policy Institute of California is also
reporting that “83 percent of public school parents think their children’s
education has been compromised in the past year – 60 percent said their
children have fallen behind by ‘a lot’ while the other 23 percent reported in
at ‘a little.’” </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Additionally, the amount of time teachers spent with
their students varies greatly, depending on the school district. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While students in Long Beach received
255 minutes of “synchronous” instruction each day, and those in San Diego got
240 minutes, kids in L.A. received just 114 minutes with their teacher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2021/new-data-55-of-california-public-school-students-remain-in-distance-learning/653848">here</a>,
<a href="https://sjvsun.com/news/education/just-not-cutting-it-83-of-calif-public-school-parents-say-kids-education-stalled-during-pandemic/">here</a>
and <a href="https://greatpublicschoolsnow.org/educationalrecoverynow/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, regarding the reopenings, a Freedom of Information
Act document reveals that the American Federation of Teachers lobbied the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for,
the agency’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210212190653/https:/www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/community/schools-childcare/K-12-Operational-Strategy-2021-2-12.pdf?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fcommunity%2Fschools-childcare%2Foperation-strategy.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">school-reopening guidance released in
February.</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The documents show a
flurry of activity between CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, her top advisors
and union officials — with Biden brass being looped in at the White House — in
the days before the highly-anticipated Feb. 12 announcement on school-reopening
guidelines.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you again for Friday’s rich
discussion about forthcoming CDC guidance and for your openness to the
suggestions made by our president, Randi Weingarten, and the AFT,” wrote AFT
senior director for health issues Kelly Trautner in a Feb 1 email — which
described the union as the CDC’s “thought partner.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We were able to review a copy of the
draft guidance document over the weekend and were able to provide some initial
feedback to several staff this morning about possible ways to strengthen the
document,” Trautner continued. “… We believe our experiences on the ground can
inform and enrich thinking around what is practicable and prudent in future
guidance documents.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As the teachers unions continue to restrict traditional
education, school choice has been on the move. In <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>,
Paul Peterson writes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Democrats took control of the
federal government in January, teachers unions upped their antichoice rhetoric
while calculating the best way to spend billions of new federal education
dollars. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Three months later, school-choice
advocates have scored big victories around the country. Indiana enlarged its
voucher program. Montana lifted caps on charter schools. Arkansas now offers
tax-credit scholarships to low-income students. West Virginia and Kentucky have
funded savings accounts that help parents pay tuition at private schools.
Florida, a movement leader, has enlarged its tax-credit scholarship programs.
Even Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee promises to veto a moratorium on new charter
schools. As one voucher activist told me: “This feels like the most school
choice legislative action in . . . years.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pandemic is the driving force. The
failure of the public schools to educate children in the past year has angered
parents and policy makers.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/lockdowns-give-school-choice-a-boost-11619649358">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, on school choice, the Fordham Institute reports
that a “New Study Shows That Charter Schools Do Not ‘Drain’ Funds From
Traditional Public Classrooms. In Fact, in Many States, the Opposite Seems to
Be True.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The study uses enrollment and fiscal data reported by
traditional school districts between 2000 and 2017 to analyze the relationship
between the proportion of students attending charter schools not approved by
the local school district and the finances of host school districts in
twenty-one states, including the Golden State.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Perhaps surprisingly, the study finds that host
districts’ total revenues per pupil actually increased in most states as the
percentage of local students who enrolled in charter schools rose. Certainly,
that was the case in California, where a 10 percentage point increase in the
percentage of students attending charter schools that were authorized by
counties or the State Board of Education (after being rejected by the host
district) was associated with a 5 percent increase in host districts’ total
revenue per pupil and a 4 percent increase in their instructional spending per
pupil.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Importantly, these increases weren’t caused by changes
in the types of students host districts enrolled. For example, they weren’t due
to increases in the share of district students who were low income, eligible
for Special Education, or classified as English language learners (Which are
all designations associated with additional per pupil funding under state and
federal law).</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more about the study, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/study-charters-do-not-drain-from-traditional-neighbors/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The “equity” train rolls merrily along in California. In
Conejo Valley, just north of Los Angeles, </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>An emphasis on defining America’s history in terms of
“social justice,” and Critical Race Theory (CRT) in particular, is popping up
in our local public schools. For instance, the capstone assignment in a current
ninth-grade English course at Newbury Park High School is aimed squarely at “an
in-depth exploration of a topic that has something to do with prejudice,
intolerance, and injustice (just like the majority of the literature in this
course).” The assignment, which requires a parent’s signature of approval,
guides students to explore a variety of “wrongdoing, attitudes of prejudice and
intolerance” in America’s history, through the study of groups including Black
Lives Matter, criminals who received minimum sentences, women in science, LGBTQ
and more. The assignment’s goal is to give students a “perspective of dealing
with wrongdoing and recognizing the need for lasting and comprehensive
reconciliation” to “help students to develop a more mindful approach in a
variety of real-world environments, including school, home, and community.”</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">These days, even William Shakespeare is not safe from
cancelation.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In Michigan, some English literature teachers told the
School Library Journal that the Bard of Avon has promoted “misogyny, racism,
homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir (discrimination against
black women)” in his writing. Jeffrey Austin, head of a Michigan high school’s
English literature department, insists that teachers should “challenge the
whiteness” of the assumption that Shakespeare’s works are “universal.”
Washington state public school teacher Claire Bruncke has banished the Bard
from her classroom in order to “stray from centering the narrative of white,
cisgender, heterosexual men.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Math does not fare too well with those who support equity<i>.</i>
In Oregon, those in charge with running public education have decided that
focusing on finding the right answer in math “and showing your work” is a
symbol of white supremacy. Teachers are also urged to adapt homework policies
to fit the needs of students of color and “challenge the ways that math is used
to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an eye-opening piece, Children’s
Educational Opportunity Foundation president Lewis Andrews writes that “woke
curricula involve much more than warped views of history, the scientific
method, and social relations – they also employ instructional methods that have
been shown to inflict serious psychological harm completely independent of what
is being taught. These include the frequent use of shaming, forced public
confessions of so-called ‘privilege,’ the acceptance of one’s socioeconomic
background as an excuse for not achieving, and the promotion of ideological
conformity as the best way to deal with social conflict.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quoting psychologist Anna Smith,
Andrews adds that shame is the ultimate divider. “It’s a me versus them
feeling. A deliberate act to cause one to feel like an outsider. As ‘a
finger-pointing gesture,’ she says, it can easily induce the very reverse of
what was intended.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.conejoguardian.org/2021/04/29/coming-to-a-school-near-you-critical-race-theory-aims-at-americas-foundations/">here</a>,
<a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/equity-inequality-discrimination-and-mediocrity/">here</a>,
and <a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/04/06/the_other_problem_with_woke_schooling_its_psychological_child_abuse_771388.html">here</a>.</p>
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CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-85742360926334929372021-04-21T08:11:00.002-07:002021-04-21T08:11:25.323-07:00<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> <a name="_Hlk69278761">Dear Colleague,</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">California
is getting close to passing </span></span><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AB 101</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, which would mandate teaching a
one-semester course in ethnic studies in high school. As written, the bill does
not include specific content, however. That decision would be left to each
school district. But some agenda-driven extremists are waiting to pounce. In
Los Angeles, the school district is considering a </span></span><a href="https://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/226/Framework%20Ethnic%20Studies.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">curriculum</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that disdains “merit” and
“individualism,” and claims that “history classes and textbooks focus on the
perspective of white colonial culture.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
<u><span style="color: blue;">San Diego</span></u>, students must “confront and
examine your white privilege” and to “acknowledge when you feel white fragility.”
Additionally, children are told to “understand the impact of white supremacy in
your work.” But a civil rights violation complaint has been filed against San
Diego schools. The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, along with five
partner organizations, have filed the complaint against the school district for
unlawful, discriminatory critical race training of teachers and employees. CFER
claims, “Culturally Responsive Sustaining Practices & Ethnic Studies and
other relevant training violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Article I Section 31 (a)
of the California Constitution, as well as state anti-discrimination laws and
Board policies.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To learn more about
the lawsuit, go </span><a href="https://cferfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Filed-SDUSD-COMPLAINT.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">Also, regarding the racial agenda in
schools</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></span><a href="https://ceoct.org/board-staff/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
president Lewis Andrews writes that “woke curricula involve much more than
warped views of history, the scientific method, and social relations – they
also employ instructional methods that have been shown to </span></span><a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/04/06/the_other_problem_with_woke_schooling_its_psychological_child_abuse_771388.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inflict serious psychological harm</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
completely independent of what is being taught. These include the frequent use
of shaming, forced public confessions of so-called ‘privilege,’ the acceptance
of one’s socioeconomic background as an excuse for not achieving, and the
promotion of ideological conformity as the best way to deal with social
conflict.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quoting
psychologist </span></span><a href="https://annaismith.medium.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anna Smith</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Andrews adds that shame is the
ultimate divider. “It’s a me versus them feeling. A deliberate act to cause one
to feel like an outsider. As ‘a finger-pointing gesture,’ she says, it can
easily induce the very reverse of what was intended.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To read Andrews’
piece, go </span><a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/04/06/the_other_problem_with_woke_schooling_its_psychological_child_abuse_771388.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
the Covid front, the lockdown tragedy is best summed up in an </span></span><a href="https://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2021/03/stranger-than-you-can-even-imagine.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">extraordinarily moving blog post</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
written by Darren Miller, a veteran high school math teacher in the Sacramento
area, and force behind the “</span></span><a href="https://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right on
the Left Coast</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” blog. He returned to teach full time
in person on March 22<sup>nd</sup>, and wrote the following one day later.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After
2 days back at work this week, I’ve now taught each of my 5 classes in person
for the first time in over a year. Without going into details about my
district’s exceedingly-flawed hybrid model, suffice it to say that I taught
each class twice–once in the morning for in-person students and once in the
afternoon for online students. My in-person classes ranged anywhere from
5-10 students each.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d
like to focus on one of my classes in particular, which I didn’t teach until
today. This is a higher math class of almost exclusively college-bound
students.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d
previously notified my students that, with the hybrid model, our class time was
significantly less than it had been under all-online classes, 50 minutes vs 90
minutes. Therefore, it was incumbent upon them to watch my instructional
videos before class and take whatever notes they thought were necessary, because
with only 50 minutes of class we’d need to get right into practice problems.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
one of them had watched the video for today’s class.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
wasn’t going to reteach the material in the video, so I would incorporate as
much “instruction” as I could while we worked out problems. Not long after
I started in, I stopped. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
were just staring at me.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Are
any of you going to write any of this down?” A few reached for pencils and
notebooks. I continued my instruction. As I’m wont to do when teaching, I frequently
stop and ask questions to check for student understanding. And so I did. I
asked a student a question. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
student just stared at me.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
looked at the student for a moment and then said, “You realize I can see you,
right? You’re not hiding behind a screen with your camera turned off.” I said
it with a hint of humor, but the dark truth is there – these kids have no idea
how to be students. They have completely forgotten.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes,
I know that 374 days had passed since the last time they were in school. But
these college-bound students had been in school for several years before those
374 days. None of these students is a freshman.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
have forgotten how to be students. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
partly explains their low grades. They don’t engage – they turn off their cameras
(I cannot require them to turn them on), they don’t ask questions, they don’t
really take notes. They listen to my videos–at least, they did when I played
them during class–and they listen to me talk and explain. They don’t do
anything, they sit and listen and let the words flow over and around
them. They learn only what they hear and remember, which cognitive
science will tell you won’t be much. They are completely passive, there is
nothing active at all about their learning.</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miller
is not alone. He spoke with one of his school’s vice principals, and learned
that several other teachers had reported the same phenomenon. When talked to,
the students “just stared.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
concludes his post: “I have no idea if they’ll get back to “normal” any time
soon or not. If they don’t, though, we have a much bigger problem on our
hands than so-called learning loss. This could be nightmarish.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To read the rest
of Miller’s post, go </span><a href="https://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2021/03/stranger-than-you-can-even-imagine.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><a name="_Hlk69278018">Last November, a lawsuit was filed by the Public Counsel on
behalf of California students, parents and several community organizations
which claimed that children have been left behind during months of distance
learning, and were lacking access to digital tools as well as badly needed
academic and social-emotional supports. In addition, a group of parents are
suing the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of Los
Angeles. They allege “that LAUSD breached its responsibility to act in the best
interest of students by allowing the teachers union to dictate when schools
should reopen.”</a></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278018;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i>LAUSD, United
Teachers Los Angeles and UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz are named as
defendants in the complaint.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i>Timothy
Snowball, an attorney for the four plaintiffs, said in an interview Wednesday,
March 31, that UTLA used students as a “bargaining chip” by refusing to have
its members return to campuses sooner in order to try and advance the union’s
own agenda. For example, the complaint alleges that during negotiations with
the district on reopening schools, the union wanted other issues addressed,
such as the defunding of police.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i>“UTLA used the
tragedy of COVID-19 as an excuse to extract concessions based on its preferred
personal and ideological policies by holding the education and future of
LAUSD’s children hostage,” the complaint states. “UTLA was willing for teachers
to remain out of the classroom, and children, including Plaintiffs, [sic]
to suffer the mental, social, and academic consequences.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To learn more
about the lawsuits, go </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/01/california-school-lawsuit/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"> and </span><a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2021/03/31/lausd-utla-sued-by-parents-unhappy-with-school-reopening-efforts/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">As many unionized school districts
remain locked down, school choice is ascending. </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On March
29<sup>th</sup>, West Virginia passed the most expansive school choice program
in the country. Under the new law, all parents have unrestrained options. If
parents choose a private school for their kids, they will receive 100 percent
of their state education dollars – $4,600 annually – to help defray expenses.
In addition to private school tuition, parents can use the funding to
homeschool or for other education expenses. The new law stands in stark
contrast to 2018 when Mountain State educators made news by launching a
statewide strike, which morphed into the nationwide “Red for Ed” movement.
Interestingly, the unions have been very quiet about the new law. Patricia
Rucker, chair of the Senate Education Committee and chief architect of the ESA
effort, explained that when legislators pushed for reforms in 2019, they caught
a lot of flak from the teachers union. But this time around, she says it has
been quiet. “The unions don’t like the bill, but our phones aren’t ringing. We
aren’t getting emails. It’s nothing like last time.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
in California, hardly a school choice mecca, there is rumbling. A revolutionary
universal education savings account initiative is in the works for the November
2022 ballot. The ESA would give parents control of the money the state spends
on educating their child. The funds would be spent on the school of their
choice, and any money not spent would accumulate and could be used for college
or vocational training. Additionally, California State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley
has proposed “Cal Grant K-12,” a privately funded grant program which would
“help parents who have been forced to pay out-of-pocket expenses to keep up
with their children’s remote learning.” According to Fox News, the bill
“incentivizes individuals and businesses to make donations that will provide
eligible students scholarship funds they can use for approved expenses to help
reduce pandemic-induced learning loss.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To learn more, go
</span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/25/once-held-hostage-by-teachers-unions-west-virginia-just-passed-sweeping-school-choice-legislation/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">, </span><a href="https://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"> and </span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/545420-california-lawmaker-proposes-program-to-cover-parents-out-of-pocket"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">The results of a
new poll reveal that nearly half of U.S. parents want more noncollege paths.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;"><i>According to
the Family Voices study -- a recent survey of U.S. parents conducted by
Carnegie Corporation and Gallup -- 54% of parents of children aged 11 to 25 in
the United States would prefer that their child enroll in a four-year
university immediately after high school. However, 46% of parents say even if
there were no barriers to their child earning a bachelor's degree, they would
prefer another postsecondary option.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">To read on, go </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/344201/nearly-half-parents-noncollege-paths.aspx"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk69278761;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I recently took part in in a townhall which centered on the
current lockdown situation in California. One of the participants, Dr. Mark
McDonald, a psychiatrist, spoke eloquently about the tragic consequences of
social isolation for many children. Here are a few transcribed notes:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>I've never in 10 years in my practice seen this level
of rapid degeneration of an entire population. And sadly, it's also been since
March, the first time in my career that I've lost a patient due to unnatural
causes – two in fact – one in March right after the schools closed and then a
second one just two weeks ago, the child of a prominent public figure, Dr.
Laura Berman, who's on radio and television as a psychologist, lost her 15 year
old son who was one of my patients after he had drugs delivered to his home via
an app on Snapchat in Santa Monica while his parents were cooking hamburgers
down below, he popped what he thought was a Xanax, but was laced with fentanyl.
When his mother went up to check on him, she found him lying face down on the
floor in his own vomit.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>…This boy was not even depressed or anxious. He was a
garden variety ADHD kid who was bored because he was sheltering at home, so
that he could be safer at home, and it was while he was safer at home that they
lost their child.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>…I know for a fact that this is happening all over the
country, and a lot of it isn't even being reported. In Las Vegas, the suicide
rate for kids doubled this academic year from nine to 18.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>…I've heard reports from pediatricians on the east
coast, the midwest and Texas that they're losing patients right and left as
well. So, both empirically and anecdotally, and also from my own clinical
experience, we're losing children, and we're losing them due to school
closures.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">…Well,
mathematically and statistically speaking it's fairly complex and I won't go
into the details here. If anyone is nerdy enough to want to look into it, they
can read the data tables. But essentially, for the layman this publication that
came out in November of 2020 from JAMA, the Journal of American Medical
Association, which is one of the three or four key academic medical journals in
the country; this is not a sideshow This is like a Lancet in terms of its
veracity and respectability in the community, found that specifically with
primary school aged children, keeping kids at home, meaning keeping kids away
from school by closing them actually shortens their lifespan.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">To
see Dr. McDonald’s entire talk, go </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/townhallcentral/videos/2844074989198255"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Regarding
reopening schools, there are a few rays of hope here in California. California
public schools will receive financial incentives to reopen campuses by April 1<sup>st</sup>
for their youngest and most vulnerable students under a deal Gov. Gavin Newsom
and legislative leaders announced on March 1<sup>st</sup>. Not everyone is
happy about the move, however.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under the plan, schools are not
required to reopen. Decisions </span></i><a href="https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/02/who-power-reopen-california-classrooms/"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">still rest</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with school boards, administrators and
labor unions, so it is unclear whether the deal will actually result in
widespread campus reopenings.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prompted by parents who have been
protesting school closures, Newsom and Democrats who control the Legislature
said they hope that the </span></i><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB86" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$6.6
billion compromise</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
will prod public schools to reopen after most campuses have been closed for
nearly a year.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We expect that all of our (transitional kindergarten) to
(grade) two classrooms will open, and then the next month, we want to see more
happen beyond that,” Newsom said during a press conference at an elementary
school in Elk Grove. “We’re now accelerating the pace of reopening.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But parent activists blasted the plan, saying they fear it
will not compel enough schools to reopen. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“This isn’t a breakthrough, it’s a failure,” said a
statement from Pat Reilly, a parent advocate with the Open Schools California
group who has children that attend Berkeley schools.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To learn more, go </span><a href="https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/03/newsom-lawmakers-schools-reopen/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The United Teachers of Los Angeles was also not happy with
the decision.</span></p>
<p><i>The United Teachers of Los Angeles' strong condemnation is a bad sign for
Newsom and Democrats who spent months working to strike a deal on legislation
they believe will spur districts to reopen. Los Angeles Unified is the second
largest district in the nation with about 600,000 students — and by far the
largest in the state with roughly 10 percent of California's public
schoolchildren.</i></p>
<p><i>"We are being unfairly targeted by people who are not experiencing
this disease in the same ways as students and families are in our communities.
If this was a rich person's disease, we would've seen a very different
response. We would not have the high rates of infections and deaths," UTLA
President Cecily Myart-Cruz said at a news conference Monday. "Now
educators are asked instead to sacrifice ourselves, the safety of our students
and the safety of our schools."</i></p>
<p>To read more, go <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/03/02/la-teachers-union-slams-state-plan-as-propagating-structural-racism-1366367">here</a>.</p>
<p>On the school choice front, district lockdowns have led legislators across
the country to pass parental choice legislation. Per the <a href="http://efinstitute.org/legislation-map/"><span style="color: blue;">Educational
Freedom Institute</span></a>, there are currently 29 states that have active
legislation, the aim of which is to fund students instead of school systems. It
is interesting to note that, while red states with weaker teachers unions are
over-represented on the list, there certainly is a blue state presence.
Massachusetts, Oregon, Minnesota, Maryland and Washington have Educational
Savings Account legislation in the hopper, and lawmakers are considering a tax
credit scholarship proposal in Connecticut.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unions are fighting back, however.
Teachers in Indiana wore black on Feb. 24 to </span><a href="https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/blackout4ed-teachers-across-indiana-wear-black-to-protest-school-choice-bills/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">protest three school choice
bills</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that are being
considered in the state legislature. Also, when the pandemic first hit in March
2020, the Oregon Education Association successfully </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/oregons-coronavirus-education-lockdown-11585697080"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lobbied</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to make it illegal for families to
switch to virtual charter schools. Here in the Golden State, the California
Teachers Association-influenced legislature passed </span><a href="https://kesq.com/news/2020/07/28/charter-schools-forced-to-halt-new-enrollments-because-of-rider-bills-in-new-state-budget/#:~:text=It's%20all%20because%20of%20Senate,approving%20the%20new%20state%20budget.&text=SB%2098%20caps%20per%2Dstudent,on%20new%20charter%20school%20enrollments."><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Senate Bill 98</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in late June. The trailer bill
effectively put a moratorium on new charter school enrollments by capping
per-student state funding to last year’s funding levels. Had the legislators not
done that, charter school enrollments would be surging now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a recent survey, Beck Research
reports </span><a href="https://www.federationforchildren.org/support-for-school-choice-remains-strong-during-volatile-year/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">across-the-board support for
school choice policies</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
Released in January, the Democratic polling outfit found that 65 percent
of k-12 parents back school choice. Also, 74 percent of African-Americans and
71 percent of Latinos, groups that stand to gain most from choice, are staunch
supporters.</span></p>
<p>To learn more, go <a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/teachers-unions-are-promoting-school-choice/">here</a>.</p>
<p>The ethnic studies battle rages on in California. The <i>Los Angeles Times</i>
editorial board writes, “California’s ethnic studies curriculum is
controversial and a little sloppy — but much improved.”</p>
<p><i>Now in its third draft, California’s model ethnic studies curriculum for
high schools has been stripped of its narrow ideological lens, its divisive
victimization narratives and even its impenetrable academic jargon (e.g.,
“misogynoir” and “cisheteropatriarchy”). Also gone are the phrases equating
capitalism with racism and the glowing, one-sided description of the
controversial Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel. It wisely emphasizes
more independent research and critical thinking by students.</i></p>
<p><i>Of course, various interest groups, including Arab and Jewish
associations, have registered objections to the new draft, which state schools
Supt. Tony Thurmond requested last year. Several of the original authors,
meanwhile, have said they want their names taken off the document, considering
it a watered-down version of the more fiery curriculum they had favored. Racial
and ethnic issues are bound to ignite passionate disagreement, which is fine.
In fact, that’s one of the most important reasons why students should be taught
this subject in the first place.</i></p>
<p>But Wenyuan Wu, executive director at Californians for Equal Rights, has a different
take.</p>
<p><i>The current form of ethnic studies in California, the Ethnic Studies
Model Curriculum (ESMC), stokes racial divisions and animosity by subjugating
our society to a binary, race-based lens and by perverting our nation’s complex
history with a narrow framework of identity politics. Racial balkanization, the
toxic practice of separating individuals into hostile racial boxes, has fueled
this paradigm. Marxism is also referenced here, not to inspire collectivization
of all ethnicities to serve “proletariat” governance, but to exaggerate
disparities for a clear-cut, race-based “oppressor-victim” dichotomy.</i></p>
<p><i>Perspectives on Asian-American history, for instance, reek of victimhood
mentality and divisiveness. The ESMC sample lesson on “Chinese Railroad
Workers” starts with a presupposition that Chinese laborers’ contributions to
American infrastructure have been overlooked to “exemplify the white supremacy
view of US history.” Then, it advises students to comprehend the construction
and power interplay of the transcontinental railroads project through “systems
of power” and “racism and exploitation.”</i></p>
<p>To learn more, go <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-03-07/californias-model-ethnic-studies-curriculum-is-controversial-a-little-slo">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2021/03/01/should-i-get-canceled-for-telling-the-emperor-he-has-no-clothes-on/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There are groups springing up that are fighting against the
more radical aspects of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. For example, The
Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) is a “nonpartisan organization
dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and
promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.” FAIR’s
core beliefs are as follows:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We defend civil liberties and rights
guaranteed to each individual, including freedom of speech and expression,
equal protection under the law, and the right to personal privacy.</span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We advocate for individuals who are
threatened or persecuted for speech, or who are held to a different set of
rules for language or conduct based on their skin color, ancestry, or other
immutable characteristics.</span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We support respectful disagreement. We
believe bad ideas are best confronted with good ideas – and never with
dehumanization, deplatforming or blacklisting.</span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We believe that objective truth exists,
that it is discoverable, and that scientific research must be untainted by any
political agenda.</span></i></p>
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compassionate anti-racism rooted in dignity and our common humanity.</span></i></p>
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<br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px; left: 120.04px; top: 396.413px; transform: scaleX(0.910522);"></span>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-68139051490910307532021-02-17T08:15:00.001-08:002021-02-17T08:15:38.728-08:00<p> <span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
To those who did not reply to our email last week, we’ve extended the
response deadline until this Friday because your input is extremely
important. CTEN is doing some media outreach regarding Covid-related
school lockdowns. If you are a teacher, please answer the following
questions. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Do you teach in a public, charter, or private school? In what state? What grade/s?<br />
<br />
Has the district surveyed you regarding the shutdown, reopening efforts, pursuing other models, like hybrid learning, etc.?<br />
<br />
Has your union surveyed you regarding the shutdown, reopening efforts, pursuing other models, like hybrid learning etc.?<br />
<br />
(For private school teachers) Did your school’s governing body survey
you regarding the shutdown, reopening efforts, pursuing other models,
like hybrid learning etc.?<br />
<br />
According to media coverage, teachers appear to be in lockstep with
their union regarding shutdown matters. Based upon your interactions
with your teaching colleagues, is there consensus amongst teachers
regarding reopening schools? <br />
<br />
Is there anything you would like to add? Are we missing something
important from your perspective as a teaching professional in the
national debate surrounding reopening of schools that is not being
publicly discussed?</span><br />
<br />
Many thanks for your cooperation!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;"> Most schools in California are still closed due to Covid-19, and
children are suffering. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, about 6 percent of U.S. children aged 6 through 17 are
afflicted with autism, severe anxiety, depression, trauma-related mental
health conditions, and other serious emotional or behavioral
difficulties. Due to forced school lockdowns, many of these children who
depend on schools for access to vital therapies are being deprived.<br />
<br />
Therefore, it is not surprising that mental health problems account for a
growing proportion of children’s visits to hospital emergency rooms. In
November, the CDC reported that from March 2020, when the pandemic was
declared, to October 2020, the figure was up 31 percent for those 12 to
17 years old and 24 percent for children ages 5 to 11, compared with the
same period in 2019. And when severe mental health problems exist,
suicides escalate.<br />
<br />
Additionally, the National Institutes of Health reports that –
pre-lockdown – about 70 children in the U.S., ages 5-14 kill themselves
every year. While there is no national data yet for 2020, that reported
number is likely to skyrocket. In Nevada’s Clark County alone, there
were 18 youth suicides in the last 9 months of 2020.<br />
<br />
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<br />
Not surprisingly, several studies have shown that the teachers unions
are the major factor in whether or not schools reopen. For example,
researchers Corey DeAngelis and Christos Makridis have released the
results of a study which finds that school districts in places with
strong teachers’ unions were much less likely to offer full-time,
in-person instruction in the fall.<br />
<br />
<em>New data published at Education Week indicate that 78 percent of the
nation’s 50 largest public districts aren’t planning to reopen with any
in-person instruction.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Using data on the reopening decisions of 835 public districts
covering about 38 percent of all students enrolled in K-12 public
schools in the country, our study finds that school districts in places
with stronger teachers’ unions are much less likely to offer full-time,
in-person instruction this fall. </em><br />
<br />
<em>For example, our models indicate that school districts in states
without right-to-work laws are 14 percentage points less likely to
reopen in person than those in states with such laws, which prevent
unions from requiring membership.</em><br />
<br />
<em>A 10 percent increase in union power is associated with a 1.3
percentage-point lower probability of reopening in person. In Florida,
for example, 79 percent of 38 school districts in the Education Week
dataset are planning to offer full-time in-person instruction to all
students. However, in New York, a state with much stronger teachers’
unions, none of the 21 school districts included in the dataset are
planning to do the same. </em><br />
<br />
<em>…These results are remarkably consistent across various analytic
models and even after controlling for differences in county
demographics, including age, gender, marital status, race, population,
education, political affiliation, household income and COVID-19 cases
and deaths per capita.</em><br />
<br />
To continue reading, go <a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=168bf4f575&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
As the lockdowns continue, many parents are getting fed up, and they’re getting organized.<br />
<br />
<em>Citing campus closures’ “devastating effect on students’ learning,
mental health, physical health and social and emotional well-being,” a
coalition of more than a dozen parent groups has launched a public
campaign to pressure the state to reopen school campuses as soon as
safely possible.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Open Schools California includes parent groups in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, San Diego, Richmond and other cities who say that distance
learning has been a disaster for most students, and the state needs to
push harder for safety measures that would allow campuses to reopen for
in-person instruction. The group announced its formation Monday.</em><br />
<br />
<em>“There were all these separate parent organizations, but we realized
we’d have a much larger impact if we worked as a unified group and
lobbied at a statewide level,” said Megan Bacigalupi, an Oakland parent
of two elementary school students and an organizer of the group.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Organizers decried what they said was a lack of input from parents
on statewide reopening plans. School administrators, teachers’ unions,
state officials and public health authorities are providing the primary
guidance, “but the parent voice is missing,” Bacigalupi said.</em><br />
<br />
<em>“Since March (when campuses closed) we’ve been an integral part of
our children’s education, but right now we don’t have a seat at the
bargaining table,” she said.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=19b23a367b&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
How will the lockdowns affect the school choice movement? In <em>Education Next</em>, Paul Peterson writes, “Covid-19 Could Be the Moment We Turn to School Choice as a Road to Equal Opportunity.”<br />
<br />
<em>Nothing in the historical record has disrupted American schools
quite like Covid-19. Millions of students will lose more than a year of
classroom instruction. Only the most hopeful think schools will return
to normalcy before next September. An entire generation can expect a
drop in lifetime earnings of 5% to 10%, economists tell us. Even worse,
social and emotional development have been stunted. Schools no longer
provide eye and ear exams, nurse office visits, and ready access to
social services. Children from low-income backgrounds are suffering the
most.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Parents desperately search for alternatives. In affluent
communities, neighbors have formed learning pods, with tutors and fellow
parents sharing the instructional burden. Home schooling is on the
rise. Families are shifting their children to private and charter
schools. Entrepreneurial high school seniors are taking dual enrollment
courses, hoping to finish high school and begin college at the same
time. But too many children are occupying their time in other ways, with
ever more high school students simply dropping out. Enrollment at
public schools is falling by 5% or more. The opportunity gap is almost
certainly widening between rich and poor children.</em><br />
<br />
<em>But what happens after the vaccine arrives and the virus has been
cornered? Will parents return to the status quo? Or are they going to
demand more choices and greater control over their child’s education?
Before Covid-19, nearly a third of all students attended a school of
choice, including district-operated magnet schools (7%) other district
options such as vocational and exam schools (6%), charters (6%), home
schooling (3%), and private schools (8% using family and other private
funds and 1% with school vouchers or tax-credit scholarships).</em><br />
<br />
<em>If parents have any say, the demand for choice is almost certain to
increase. During the pandemic itself, parents reported teachers at
charter and private schools were more likely to provide direct
instruction. Loss of learning occurred everywhere, but it was less,
parents said, at these schools of choice.</em><br />
<br />
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<br />
In fact, some states are already taking action to help parents.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=a17b93145c&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>Sixteen states</em></a><em>—Arizona,
Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia, Washington, New Hampshire, Oregon, Iowa,
Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=6d2848a8e4&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>Utah</em></a><em>, and </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=fe0ea9a222&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>Illinois</em></a><em>—have introduced proposals that empower parents and provide alternative education options for children, such as </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=60c79a0895&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>education savings accounts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=0302c3fd1e&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>private school scholarships</em></a><em>, or </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=938990252e&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>tax credit scholarships</em></a><em>.</em><br />
<br />
<em>New Hampshire policymakers, for instance, introduced a proposal that would provide eligible children with </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=08cf2f24e6&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>Education Freedom Accounts</em></a><em>, which are parent-controlled education savings accounts.</em><br />
<br />
<em>These especially versatile accounts can be used to purchase a
variety of education expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring,
books, uniforms, or specialized education programs, to name a few.</em><br />
<br />
<em>K-12 students currently enrolled in the Granite State’s public schools </em><a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=db79c4396f&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>are eligible</em></a><em> for
an account if their school is currently operating under either a hybrid
or remote model. New Hampshire students enrolled in a school whose
academic achievement outcomes are below 40% are also eligible for an
account.</em><br />
<br />
To continue reading, go <a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=93101850ff&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
While the <em>Janus </em>decision freed teachers from paying dues to a
union, it did not free them from being part of the collective bargaining
process. Jade Thompson, a teacher in Ohio, doesn’t want to be
“compelled to let a labor union speak for her.”<br />
<br />
<em>The Buckeye Institute said it filed a petition Friday with the
nation’s highest court on behalf of Jade Thompson, a Spanish teacher at
Marietta High School. The case revolves around the concept that
collective-bargaining units, in this case the Marietta Education
Association, speak on behalf of all members.</em><br />
<br />
<em>“In this instance, Ohio law recognizes a labor union as representing
and speaking on behalf of Ms. Thompson, despite her vehement opposition
to its positions and advocacy on issues ranging from fiscal policy to
school administration,” the Buckeye Institute’s president and CEO,
Robert Alt, wrote in the petition to the high court.</em><br />
<br />
<em>…Thompson’s problems with the labor union peaked in 2010, when her
husband, former state representative Andy Thompson, was in the midst of
his campaign. When the Ohio Education Association campaigned against
Andy Thompson, the president of the Marietta Education Association
emailed teachers at the high school pushing them to vote against him,
according to court documents.</em><br />
<br />
<em>“Ms. Thompson’s agency fees fund the activities of the Union, the
National Education Association and the Ohio Education Association,” her
complaint stated.</em><br />
<br />
To read on, go <a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=071c60d835&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
While Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s pick for Education Secretary,
seems to be a non-controversial choice, his pick for Deputy Secretary of
Education, San Diego Unified School District superintendent Cindy
Marten, comes with some baggage.<br />
<br />
She has aligned herself with the California Teachers Association in
trying to halt the growth of charter schools. Additionally, the San
Diego branch of the NAACP released a statement referring to Marten as an
“ineffective leader when it comes to the academic advancement of
African American children in San Diego public schools.” Marten also has
promoted the concept that schools “<a href="https://ctenhome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e7937a3c4eb6b46a3361ce4e&id=68cd0df156&e=c321e77b8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">spirit murder</a>” black children and that white teachers should undergo “antiracist therapy.”<br />
<br />
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As the pandemic and the lockdowns continue, teachers’
mental health is suffering in ways they’ve never experienced according to <i>The
19th</i>, an online news source.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because of the pandemic, about
three-fourths of the 100 largest school districts opted for complete remote
learning, </span></i><a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-districts-reopening-plans-a-snapshot/2020/07" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an October
study found,</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and a little over a quarter of all districts began the year with a hybrid
approach. But as COVID-19 case counts climb, districts across the country have
ricocheted from remote to in-person to hybrid models, and many that started
with </span></i><a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/schools-are-retreating-to-remote-learning-as-covid-19-surges-do-they-have-to/2020/11" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">even a
semblance</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of in-person
learning have fallen back to remote education.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between the unpredictability, the
isolation and the newfound challenges in reaching their students — who </span></i><a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/kids-may-face-mental-health-issues-as-school-begins-amid-pandemic/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mental
health experts</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
worry are also </span></i><a href="https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/10/online-learning-mental-health" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">struggling</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — what little mental health support is
extended to teachers feels like nowhere near enough.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I spend all day staring at a screen
and kind of generating enthusiasm into the void that Zoom is, and I end the day
so tired, and so done, and so frustrated,” said Emma Wohl, a middle school
teacher in Washington state whose district has been completely remote this
year. “The moments of joy I used to have are so much more rare.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://19thnews.org/2020/12/during-the-pandemic-teachers-mental-health-is-suffering-in-ways-theyve-never-experienced/">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, regarding the coronavirus, <i>Education Week</i> reports
that, “Fall School Reopenings Didn’t Dramatically Increase COVID-19
Hospitalizations.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>For the most part, school reopenings in the fall did
not appear to contribute to increased hospitalization rates due to COVID-19,
according to research released on Monday.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>The finding adds to a growing body of evidence
suggesting that schools did not play much of a role in fueling infections when
community transmission rates remained relatively low. It is the first study to
use hospitalization as its key health measure, a research advance that avoids
some of the problems with using test-positivity counts as a proxy for COVID-19
spread.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>But in places where community spread was higher, the
researchers found that the link between schooling and health effects grew
murkier, with no clear pattern in the results, a red flag of sorts as schools
consider expanding in-person learning options in the midst of a third surge of
record-breaking rates of COVID-19 from coast to coast.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/fall-school-reopenings-didnt-dramatically-increase-covid-19-hospitalizations/2021/01">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Here in California, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a
$2 billion package of incentives to encourage a return to in-person classes for
California elementary school students as early as mid-February, an effort that
could require coronavirus testing for students, teachers and staff.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>But given the bleak public health conditions across
most of the state as coronavirus cases surge at alarming rates, it is unclear
how quickly districts in hard-hit counties will qualify to reopen, especially
those in large urban areas in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay
Area.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Newsom’s decision, in essence, eases the strict
criteria for county health conditions under which schools can be eligible to
reopen. His plan comes amid California’s most deadly spell in the pandemic and
increases pressure on local school officials to reinstate in-classroom
learning.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In his announcement, Newsom cited growing evidence
that young students faced “decreased risks” associated with the coronavirus and
benefited more from in-person instruction compared to at-home learning.
In-classroom learning provides a better opportunity to identify children
suffering from depression, anxiety or abuse at home, he said.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-30/newsom-promises-cash-for-california-schools-to-create-covid-19-reopening-plans">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">There is hope that schools will open sooner rather than
later with the greater availability of the Covid vaccine. But that notion is
not as simple as it sounds. Earlier this month in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine
announced a goal of resuming "in-person school by March 1" by soon
offering Ohio's school employees COVID-19 vaccines. But the president of the
Ohio Education Association says that it's unlikely that many schools will be
able to resume completely normal operations by then, even with vaccines.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>"We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of
the imagination. Even after the vaccine has been widely distributed, it's not a
panacea," said Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association,
the state's largest teacher's union. "All the things the CDC is saying are
important to keep schools safe are still going to be necessary, and I expect
that through at least the end of the school year." </i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>During a press briefing last week, DeWine suggested
that only schools that are operating in-person, or that indicate they're
willing to shift to fully in-person classes, might be offered the shots, possibly
as early as mid-January. As of last week, 45% of Ohio's students were learning
completely online, 29% were in-person and 26% were a mix of both, he said. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>DiMauro said such stipulations might be
counterproductive.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>"We need to really pay attention to equity and
vaccinate communities hit hardest by the pandemic first," DiMauro said.
"That would mean in districts like Columbus, that haven't been able to
open, because there hasn't been a safe way to do that yet."</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read more, go <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2021/01/04/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccines-ohio-schools-reopen-march-1/4060260001/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">President-elect Joe Biden has picked Connecticut
Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona to be the new Secretary of Education.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“He understands the deep roots of inequity as the
sources of our persistent opportunity gaps,” Biden said as he formally
announced Cardona Wednesday. “And he understands the transformative power that
comes from investing in public education.”</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Biden said Cardona would help him execute his
education platform: tripling federal funding for disadvantaged students, “fully
funding” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and helping schools
to create universal prekindergarten programs and raise teacher pay.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>He also praised Cardona’s approach to reopening
schools in Connecticut. While Cardona has stopped short of mandating schools to
reopen for in-person learning, he has urged them to do so. His agency has
provided supplies, created public service announcement videos, and held online
forums to address concerns. That has drawn pushback from some educators.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Apparently, former NEA president Lily Eskelsen García
disqualified herself from contention for the post when several inappropriate
remarks of hers surfaced. Talking to a progressive political advocacy
organization in 2015, she referred to special needs kids as “chronically
tarded” and “medically annoying.” She also has referred to teacher performance
metrics as “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/lily-eskelsen-garcia-national-education-association-president-108596#.U7rpwf2uHZA.twitter"><span style="color: blue;">the mark of the devil</span></a>” and that that charter
schools are “<a href="https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/09/joe-biden-and-teachers-union-share-same-feelings-on-charter-schools/"><span style="color: blue;">very misguided school reforms</span></a>.” And just for good
measure, she told a gathering in Michigan in 2014 that some school reformers
are like zombies that are “<a href="https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/12/a-former-teachers-union-president-as-the-next-secretary-of-education/"><span style="color: blue;">eating our children’s brains</span></a>.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/bidens-pick-for-ed-secretary-u-s-must-help-schools-forge-opportunity-out-of-crisis/2020/12">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zMbspRhqJc&feature=youtu.be">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In an important piece which focuses on San Diego, American
Enterprise Institute fellow Ian Rowe writes that “The soft bigotry of ‘anti-racist’
expectations is damaging to Black and White kids alike.”
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In the first semester of the 2019–20 school year, the
San Diego Unified school district board discovered that 20 percent of Black
students had received a D or F grade. In comparison, 7 percent of White
students earned the same failing marks. School officials decided that the 13
percent racial disparity was a function of systemic racism, requiring an
“honest reckoning as a school district.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>In October, that “reckoning” led the San Diego board
to vote unanimously to “interrupt these discriminatory grading practices.”
Rather than attempt to replicate the factors empowering the 80 percent of Black
students who achieved passing grades, the board’s first action to “be an
anti-racist school district” was to dumb down the grading system for all. Under
the new protocols, all 106,000 San Diego students are no longer required to
hand in their homework on time. Moreover, teachers are now prohibited from
factoring a student’s classroom behavior when formulating an academic grade.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/soft-bigotry-anti-racist-expectations-damaging-black-and-white-kids-alike">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Just in time for “<a href="https://schoolchoiceweek.com/">National
School Choice Week</a>,” which begins this Sunday, Diane Ravitch writes about “<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/the-dark-history-of-school-choice/"><span style="color: blue;">The Dark History of School Choice</span></a>” in the current
<i>New York Review of Books. </i>Reviewing several books on the subject, she
does correctly cite a few circumstances where the push for the privatization of
schools was used to promote racial segregation, but her 3,700-word tirade is
very light on facts, and is instead primarily an excuse to bash Betsy DeVos,
Christianity and free market policies in education.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As director of policy at EdChoice Jason Bedrick notes,
there have been <a href="https://www.edchoice.org/engage/the-real-roots-of-school-choice-lie-in-inclusion-and-integration/"><span style="color: blue;">seven studies examining the effect of private school choice
on racial integration</span></a>. Six found positive effects and one showed no
significant statistical difference. Another important piece of data absent from
Ravitch’s screed is that a recent American Federation for Children poll
conducted by Beck Research – a Democratic polling firm – finds that nationally,
school choice is very popular with <a href="https://www.federationforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-21-20-AFC-2020-National-Release-Memo-final.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Latinos – 82 percent support it, while African-Americans are
68 percent in favor</span></a>. It is important to note that this poll was
taken in January 2020, before the teacher unions pushed school districts into
ditching in-person learning.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read more on the subject, go <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/the-dark-history-of-school-choice/">here</a>,
<a href="https://www.edchoice.org/engage/the-real-roots-of-school-choice-lie-in-inclusion-and-integration/">here</a>
and <a href="https://schoolchoiceweek.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Due to union “opt-out windows,”
which are very possibly illegal, this may be the time to quit if you are
planning to do so. If you have any questions about the process, or have
experienced any problems because of your decision to leave your union, please
let us know and we will do our best to help you – possibly getting you legal
assistance, if necessary. We will also be able to share your concerns with
other teachers across the state. And talking about sharing, please pass this
email along to your colleagues and encourage them to join us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Also, anyone wishing to donate
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exist only through the generosity of others. Thanks, as always.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Larry Sand</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As we mentioned last month, it has been
shown that school districts with strong teachers unions – especially in the
larger districts – are far less likely to bring students back to the classroom
for in-person learning during the pandemic. But there is an emerging consensus from
the scientific community that schools should be reopening.</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Director </span><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/20/cdc-director-says-school-is-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-data-supports-in-person-learning/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Robert Redfield</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> asserts that “school is one of the
safest places” for children. Also, drawing on an assessment of data from 31
countries, </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/11/18/unicef-schools-are-not-main-drivers-of-covid-among-kids-1337119"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UNICEF</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> maintains that “there is strong
evidence that, with basic safety measures in place, the net benefits of keeping
schools open outweigh the costs of closing them.” Moreover, the findings of a
major British study reveal that it was a </span><a href="https://www.aier.org/article/it-was-a-mistake-to-close-schools-uk-study-concedes/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mistake to close schools</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. “The results demonstrate no evidence
of serious harms from COVID-19 to adults in close contact with children,
compared to those living in households without children. This has implications
for determining the benefit-harm balance of children attending school in the
COVID-19 pandemic.” In October’s Great Barrington Declaration, world renowned
scientists noted that keeping children out of school is a “</span><a href="https://gbdeclaration.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">grave injustice</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span></p>
<p>Also, there are parents who feel left out of the decision making process.</p>
<p><i>“Educators and teachers’ unions are not infectious disease experts or
public health officials, and frankly, that’s who parents trust in making these
decisions,” said Keri Rodrigues, the founding president of the National Parents
Union, an advocacy organization with hundreds of parent groups across the
country.</i></p>
<p><i>Often, teachers’ unions are the loudest voices at the decision-making
table, Rodrigues said.</i></p>
<p><i>“The balance of power is off,” she said. “It’s very striking to us as
parents and families—we have a group of elected officials who make deals with
labor unions and decide what policies we’re going to do, and we’re just
supposed to take it and be on the roller coaster ride.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For more information, go <a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/science-or-science-fiction/">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-teachers-unions-are-influencing-decisions-on-school-reopenings/2020/12">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Recently, there was an unsettling piece in <i>The 74. </i>“As
COVID Creeps into Schools, Surveillance Tech Follows” reports what happened
when several children tested positive for Covid-19 in an Ohio school district
in October,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twelve children who came in close
contact with the student were instructed to quarantine, and the entire
seventh-grade class was pushed back into remote learning.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The disruptions had just begun. By
mid-November, almost every student at the Wickliffe City School District was
sent back to learning from computer screens in their living rooms. Because of
“a significant increase in exposures and confirmed COVID-19 cases among our
students and employees” that prompted widespread quarantines, the district’s
“ability to appropriately staff classrooms is no longer possible,”
Superintendent Joseph Spiccia </span></i><a href="https://filecabinet5.eschoolview.com/D3879926-117B-4266-9902-2C99214496FF/7e18de4a-a53a-4b07-a42b-8266c26e592e.pdf" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wrote in a
letter to parents</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But future virus outbreaks at the
Wickliffe district, which educates about 1,500 students, could look a whole lot
different. As part of a pilot project that the district began to roll out
before Thanksgiving, officials distributed roughly 100 badges to high school
students and staff that allow administrators to track their every move as they
travel throughout the day between the schools’ hallways and classrooms.
Implemented in the name of contact tracing, the bluetooth badges allow
administrators to track students for up to a month and identify children who
came into close contact with infected classmates. The district plans to give
badges to all 430 high school students when they return to in-person learning
early next year.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/as-covid-creeps-into-schools-surveillance-tech-follows/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In California, at the beginning of December, a group of
Los Angeles and Alameda County families sued the California Board of Education,
the Department of Education, and state Superintendent for Public Instruction
Tony Thurmond. They accused the powers that be of not giving students in the
state an adequate education due to the long-term remote learning measures taken
by schools since the shutdown in March.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the lawsuit, remote
learning has </span></i><a href="https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/the-failure-of-k-12-remote-learning-education-in-california/"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">put an undue burden on
parents and guardians, especially on low-income families who have poor internet
service or don’t have a reliable computer to use</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The lawsuit also charges that parents
have had to take up the slack from the schools shortfalls, acting as educators
for their children and having to pay for all of the associated extra costs
usually provided by schools. The suit argued further that these shortfalls had
effected minority students, in particular black and Hispanic students, the
most.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Because of the State’s inadequate
response, parents and grandparents have had to become tutors, counselors,
childminders, and computer technicians, and they have had to find a way to pay
for what are now basic school supplies — laptop/tablets, paper, printing, and
internet access,” noted the </span></i><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/f/?id=00000176-1aca-d692-a977-1efa05460000"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lawsuit that was filed
Monday</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. “California has
offered families no training, support, or opportunity to provide input into
plans for remote learning, the eventual return to in-person instruction, or the
delivery of compensatory education.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/california-sued-by-parents-over-remote-learning-inequalities/">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">While the unions clamor for a teacher to become the next
Secretary of Education, Center for Education Reform president Jeanne Allen doesn’t
necessarily agree. She writes in <i>Forbes</i>,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having been a teacher is not a
prerequisite for success as Secretary of Education. The emphasis is
wrong. Education is primarily about learning, not teaching, just as
having dinner is primarily about eating, not cooking. The process is important,
as it can help achieve, and alter, the outcome. But teaching is not the goal of
education; it is part of the process. While the two are correlated, and while
strong teaching is more likely to yield to successful learning, the unions who are
pushing the teacher-as-EdSec notion have </span></i><a href="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MalpracticeOrJustBadPolicy.pdf" target="_blank" title="https://edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MalpracticeOrJustBadPolicy.pdf"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">argued </span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the opposite holds true—that teaching
and learning are not in fact correlated!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanneallen/2020/11/20/why-a-teacher-isnt-a-natural-for-education-secretary/?sh=300d446d1c33">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The latest “National Sex Education Standards: Core
Content and Skills, K-12” is a 72-page document that describes a “whole new
world” of human evolution. Brenda Lebsack, Santa Ana school teacher and former
board member in the Orange Unified School District, thinks this is a bridge
way-too-far and picks apart the document. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Gender is described as a “social construct,” therefore
students are taught that they can reject or modify their “sex assigned at
birth” to something that FEELS truer to oneself. (p. 58) Examples of gender
include, but are NOT LIMITED to: male, female, transgender, androgenous,
agender, gender expansive, genderqueer, nonbinary, two-spirit, intersex, or
questioning. Genderqueer means a person can identify as both genders, neither
gender, something in-between or BEYOND genders. (p. 59, 61,67). The document
informs readers on page 8 that there is a continual evolution of language
related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and
sexual identity, therefore this document is only a snapshot in the evolutionary
process.</i><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Students decide their identities through experiential
learning cycles where they learn by doing, reflecting interpreting and
exploring questions of how experiences could be different in the future (p.58).
These “lived experiences” or collection of events become the student’s
firsthand validation of their identities (p. 61).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may ask, “How is unlimited gender
ideology based on science or empirical data?” According to the new definition
of “Fact” in the Sex Ed glossary (p. 58) empirical data is not required.
Hypothesis, opinions, and theories are now considered fact if most experts in
the field agree upon it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words…it’s
not about science or even common sense, it’s about whose opinions in society
matter most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">You can see the document in its entirely <a href="https://siecus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NSES-2020-2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. To get Lebsack’s
take, go <a href="https://brenda4kids.com/our-media/articles/outrageous-national-sex-ed-standards-teach-kids-to-choose-gender">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">With a new charter law on the books in California,
charters were expecting rough going in the new year, but they seem to be
getting a reprieve due to the pandemic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Known as </span></i><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Assembly Bill 1505</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the compromise between charters and
the teachers union gave local districts the authority to consider whether the
opening of a new charter would negatively impact their own schools, and it gave
charters a new process to appeal rejected applications.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But with the law going into effect in
the middle of a pandemic, districts lack key information needed to decide
whether existing charters should continue operating — assessment data from
2020.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a result, some schools that
otherwise would have been shut down are being recommended for renewal.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="http://laschoolreport.com/as-californias-new-charter-law-takes-effect-schools-bracing-for-shutdowns-could-win-a-reprieve-from-pandemic/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Many in the educational community have been demanding
that student testing be halted during our trying times. But Hoover Institution
senior fellow Chester Finn insists that this would be a grave error. He writes
in <i>The Washington Post</i>,</p>
<p class="font--body"><i>Honestly, pretty much no one likes them. No one much
likes check-ups with the doctor or dentist, either, no matter how useful they
might be. Yet, after last spring’s school shutdowns and the forced — and mostly
ill-prepared — transition to online learning, U.S. education may never have had
a greater need for reliable information about how students are doing.</i></p>
<p class="font--body"><i>What have they learned, and not learned, during these
difficult past several months? Which schools and districts moved effectively to
virtual education? How did achievement gaps change according to family income
or racial group?</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/25/how-badly-has-pandemic-hurt-k-12-learning-let-state-testing-spring-tell-us/">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">In Los Angeles-adjacent Burbank, book banning is becoming
a reality due to concerns raised by some parents over racism<i>. </i>Until
further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include Harper Lee's <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
Kill a Mockingbird</span></em><i>,</i> Mark Twain's <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn</span></em><i>,</i> John Steinbeck's <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of Mice and Men,</span></em> Theodore
Taylor's <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Cay,</span></em> and Mildred D. Taylor's <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry</span></em> in their curriculum.</p>
<p><i>Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for
alleged potential harm to the district's roughly 400 Black students.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned-california-schools-over-racism-concerns-1547241">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyone wishing to
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heartfelt thanks!)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Demi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Franklin Gothic Demi"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has been another
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A working paper released in October by
Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform reveals that local
politics – not the severity of COVID-19 – is the most important factor in
determining whether k-12 public school districts opened for in-person learning
in the fall. Political science professors Michael Hartney and Leslie Finger
looked at about 75 percent of the nation’s 10,000 school districts and found
that counties that voted 60 percent for Hillary Clinton in 2016 “were nearly 20
percentage points less likely to hold in-person classes than counties that
backed Donald Trump by the same margin.” They also report that districts with
strong teachers unions were far less likely to bring students back to the
classroom. Very interestingly, the professors note that districts “located in
counties with a </span><a href="https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai20-304.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">larger number of Catholic
schools</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> were less likely to
shut down and more likely to return to in-person learning.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The study’s results are similar to
others on the lockdown issue. In July, Jon Valant<u><span style="color: blue;">,</span></u>
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, tracked the reopening plans of
over 250 school districts across the country and reported that there was no “no
relationship” between each locality’s decision and its number of COVID-19
cases. Valant said that education policy “</span><a href="https://www.the74million.org/politics-not-science-is-driving-school-reopening-decisions-to-a-really-dangerous-degree-research-suggests/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is just one consideration
among many</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that have been
‘distorted’ by the encroachment of national politics.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To see the Brown study, go <a href="https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/nation-world-society/law-and-politics/politics-and-school-reopenings.html">here</a>.
To get Valant’s take, go <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2020/07/29/school-reopening-plans-linked-to-politics-rather-than-public-health/">here</a>. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Whatever the reason for the shutdowns,<i> LA School
Report’s</i> Linda Jacobson writes that “up to 500,000 students across
California <a name="_Hlk56062579">– </a>and 1 to 3 million kids nationwide –
have been missing from schools since March” according to a recent report released
by Bellwether Education Partners.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pulling from news reports and federal
data sources, the team of researchers predict that between 10 and 25 percent of
students in the most marginalized populations have completely missed out on
learning for the past seven months.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We did this because we know that just
1 percent of our most marginalized kids not coming to school might not seem
like a lot in any one district, and many districts might not even be keeping careful
count, but that’s more than 230 schools’ worth of children across the country —
and we think that’s a big deal,” said Hailly T.N. Korman, a senior associate
partner at the Washington-based non-profit who conducted the project with
co-authors Bonnie O’Keefe and Matt Repka.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="http://laschoolreport.com/report-estimates-that-up-to-500000-students-across-california-and-1-to-3-million-kids-nationwide-have-been-missing-from-schools-since-march/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">While many parents of public school families are upset
that their schools are closed, Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t have that problem.
His four kids are back in the private school they attend, even as public
schools in Sacramento County remain closed. In a <i>Politico </i>piece posted
on Oct. 30, Mackenzie Mays wrote,</p>
<p><i>Newsom's children attend a private school in Sacramento County that has a
hybrid schedule that alternates remote and in-person education before it will
return full-time next month, according to a source. POLITICO is not naming the
school for privacy reasons.</i></p>
<p><i>"They're phasing back into school and we are phasing out of our very
challenging distance learning that we've been doing, so many parents are doing
up and down the state," Newsom said Friday when asked about his own
children's education.</i></p>
<p><i>Sacramento County schools are allowed to open classrooms under Newsom's
reopening system. But the county's large public school districts — including
San Juan Unified, which serves Newsom's neighborhood — have yet to do so. </i></p>
<p>To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/30/newsom-sends-his-children-back-to-school-classrooms-in-california-1332811">here</a>.</p>
<p>But according to several sources, Newsom has left his Sacramento home, and
moved to nearby El Dorado County which is not on any COVID-19 watch list.</p>
<p>To learn more, go <a href="https://rightondaily.com/2020/07/gavin-newsom-update-hes-moving-to-an-exclusive-community-in-el-dorado-county-that-happens-to-not-be-on-the-shutdown-list/">here</a>.</p>
<p>As we have mentioned in previous newsletters, many parents are unhappy with
the distance learning program offered by their school district and are opting
for “pandemic pods,” a form of microschooling. Families work together to educate
their own kids, and sometimes recruit professional teachers to help with the
process. It’s a way for clusters of students to receive professional
instruction for several hours each day. But now the education establishment is
fighting back.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The National Education Association has
issued an “</span><a href="http://wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Prenda.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">opposition report</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” attacking Prenda, a microschool
provider in Arizona. Among other things, while Prenda policy says that
prescription drugs, alcohol and weapons must be locked and secured at a pod
location, the union claims that it is unclear whether Prenda conducts any
inspections. NEA also says that Prenda should be taken to task for not
providing meals or transportation to the students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And it’s not only teachers unions that
are </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/as-more-parents-choose-to-homeschool-school-bureaucrats-try-to-stem-the-tide"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">going after pods</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. In </span><a href="https://eeclead.force.com/resource/1598716186000/CareOptions"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Massachusetts</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, state guidelines affirm, “Entities
that provide supervision and care of children during school hours without an
EEC license or EEC license exemption will be subject to investigation, closure,
and fines by EEC pursuant to its statutory obligation to investigate unlicensed
child care programs.” In </span><a href="https://www.dhs.pa.gov/coronavirus/Documents/Non-Licensed_SACC%20and%20Pod%20Final%20082620.pdf"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pennsylvania</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, if a pod has more than six students,
it must </span><a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/15/learning-pod-pennsylvania-evacuation-plan-covid-19/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">develop an evacuation plan</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in the event of an emergency, and
ensure that every space where the pod gathers has a functional fire detection
system. In </span><a href="https://kpic.com/amp/news/local/state-warns-homeschooling-pods-need-to-follow-regulations-and-get-the-right-permits"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oregon</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the state has asserted that
homeschooling pods “need to follow regulations and get the right permits.” A
report released last week by Heritage Foundation policy analyst Jonathan
Butcher reveals that </span><a href="https://spn.org/blog/protecting-learning-pods/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19 states</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
have either imposed new regulations or expanded existing ones that can
interfere with families’ attempts to gain access to pods.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read the NEA’s opposition report, go <a href="http://wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Prenda.pdf">here</a>. To see
Butcher’s analysis, go <a href="https://spn.org/blog/protecting-learning-pods/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before the recent election, Mike
Antonucci reported on the campaign priorities of the National Education
Association and the American Federation of Teachers, using the Center for
Responsive Politics and its </span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OpenSecrets.org</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> website as his source. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While much of the focus over the years
has been on traditional political action committee spending, this is becoming a
smaller and smaller percentage of total campaign expenditures. Open Secrets
gives a comprehensive view of all types of spending, including that made by
super PACs and other outside groups not directly affiliated with a particular
candidate’s campaign.</span></i></p>
<p><i>We still have a couple of weeks before the election, with a lot more
spending to come, but the most recent reports show that NEA raised almost $23
million, almost all of which it passed on to its own super PAC, the NEA
Advocacy Fund. Contributions to candidates from its traditional PAC, the NEA
Fund for Children and Public Education, are approaching all-time. These include
donations from individual NEA employees or members who identified themselves as
such. Of those, $99,077 went to Democrats. Joe Biden got almost $28,000, and
his rivals in the presidential primary received funds as well. Only $3,573 went
to Republican candidates. President Donald Trump received $40.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/analysis-how-much-nea-and-aft-are-spending-on-the-2020-campaign-and-where-they-are-spending-it/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most recent National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) was administered to high school seniors in early 2019, a full
year before the COVID-19 lockdowns. The so-called “Nation’s Report Card”
reveals that just 37 percent of 12<sup>th</sup>-graders are proficient in
reading and a pitiful 24 percent in math. In fact, the average reading score
for grade 12 students was </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/?grade=4"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lower than in 1992</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not surprisingly, many blame the seniors’ abysmal
performance on the fact that the U.S. has defunded education. American
Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten groused in a press release
about “</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/afts-weingarten-latest-naep-report-card"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">two decades of austerity</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, adjusting for inflation, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.asp?current=yes"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">per‐pupil public spending
grew 39 percent</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> between 1991-1992 and 2016-2017. And as
Cato Institute scholar Neal McCluskey points out, “…spending between 2016–17
and the 2019 NAEP administration probably </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/predictably-poor-results-ed-systems-final-products"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">continued to grow</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
as the economy improved.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p>To learn more about the recent NAEP, go <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/10/27/reading-level-math-test-scores-high-school-seniors/3746305001/">here</a>.
To see Weingarten’s claims, go <a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/afts-weingarten-latest-naep-report-card">here.</a></p>
<p>On the subject of funding, Will Flanders, research director at the Wisconsin
Institute for Law & Liberty, has an interesting take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He writes that if education is changing, so
should the funding. He writes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…the largest source of declines came
from the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten cohort. Pre-K declined by 15% while
kindergarten declined by 5%. Families may simply be delaying the start of
school by a year rather navigate the uncertain value of virtual education. But
some parents will assuredly come to like the alternatives, and may not return
to the public school system they had planned on attending pre-pandemic. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The predicted result of this disruption
will be a pinch in school district budgets. </span></i><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.the74million.org_article_haspel-2Dyes-2Dschool-2Denrollment-2Dis-2Ddown-2Dbut-2Dstudents-2Dwill-2Dbe-2Dback-2Dto-2Dminimize-2Deducational-2Dhurt-2Dhold-2Dschool-2Dbudgets-2Dharmless_&d=DwMF-g&c=UCja3IwhyjPGYeHcG7oIbg&r=BVnhvmLp35xMYHkp9S5FzBrsh5ntUcszZTlfLZ-IFR8&m=6j-asxJBiTQAoOClGrkfuJ8wj2Yh2iN6Eeea4ROeJ34&s=6z3Wlrdh1uDS70Nz8uE9LrUuGMXql2J4ty1c_6-dgPk&e=" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">States</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> like California and North
Carolina have already implemented so-called “hold harmless” provisions, and
superintendents all over the country are asking for similar
measures. However, it would be a mistake to exempt public school
districts from the sort of tough decisions this enrollment decline may
require. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The bottom line is that it’s far from
clear what the long-term impact of COVID-19 will be on parental decision-making
regarding their kids’ education. It could be that we are on the precipice of
long-term seismic changes in education. It may also be the case that many parents
choose to send their kids back to school after the pandemic. But if reality is
closer to the former, it will be important for schools to make longterm
adjustments to their budgets to account for reductions in state aid and
property taxes. If the latter proves correct, districts would see a bump in
funding in future years, making COVID-related reductions a minor
blip. Giving districts a break now will just delay the
inevitable. </span></i></p>
<p>To read more of Flanders’ analysis, go <a href="https://madison.com/ct/opinion/column/will-flanders-if-education-is-changing-so-should-the-funding/article_d6d258a9-93b3-5abc-b2b9-29baaa7d9337.html">here</a>.</p>
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</xml><![endif]--> Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In a major surprise, California Governor Gavin Newsom
vetoed Assembly Bill 331 on Sept. 30<sup>th</sup>. This legislation would have
made taking an ethnic studies class a requirement to graduate high school in
the state. “There is much uncertainty about the appropriate K-12 model
curriculum for ethnic studies,” Newsom wrote in his veto statement. “The latest
draft, which is currently out for review, still needs revision.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there are other things in the works.
In a California Department of Education “Covid-19 update,” Superintendent of
Public Instruction Tony Thurmond referenced the disease only as a way to rant against
Donald Trump.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COVID-19 is not the only virus
affecting our society today. The man-made viruses—the ones of racism, hate and
bigotry—are also gaining a foothold. Increasingly, I see heartbreaking stories
of anti-Semitic behavior, bullying of Asian American students because of our
President’s rhetoric, Islamophobia, discrimination of our LGBTQ neighbors, and
violence directed at people of color.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a way to deal with all the above, Thurmond
announced an “Education to End Hate” initiative which “includes educator
training grants, partnerships with community leaders, and virtual classroom
sessions to address hate and bigotry in our schools and society.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr20/yr20rel77.asp">here</a> and <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/covidupdate0925.asp">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">One of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic is that
“Enrollment Is Dropping In Public Schools Around the Country” writes NPR’s Anya
Kamenetz.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Orange County, Fla., has 8,000 missing students. The
Miami-Dade County public schools have 16,000 fewer than last year. Los Angeles
Unified — the nation's second-largest school system — is down nearly 11,000.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg in North Carolina has 5,000 missing. Utah, Virginia and
Washington are reporting declines statewide.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Comprehensive national data aren't available yet, but
reporting by NPR and our member stations, along with media reports from around
the country, shows enrollment declines in dozens of school districts across 20
states. Large and small, rich and poor, urban and rural — in most of these
districts the decline is a departure from recent trends. Over the past 15
years, data from the U.S. Education Department show that small and steady
annual increases in public school enrollment have been the rule.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/920316481/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As we have mentioned in the last two newsletters, many
parents are opting for what are called “pandemic pods,” a form of
microschooling.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Families work together to educate their own kids, and
sometimes recruit professional teachers to help with the process. It’s a way
for clusters of students to receive professional instruction for several hours
each day. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just a couple of
weeks ago, Cato Institute scholar Jason Bedrick and EdChoice fellow Matthew
Ladner released “Let’s Get Small: Microschools, Pandemic Pods, and the Future
of Education in America,” a report on the phenomenon. In the summary, they
write that COVID-19 has </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…spurred the dramatic rise of
microschools and ‘pandemic pods’ as school districts’ reopening plans (or lack
thereof) drove desperate parents to explore alternative education options. For
many microschooling or podding families, these options are merely temporary,
intended to get them through the pandemic. However, given the considerable
growth in microschooling in recent years, there are reasons to believe that the
pandemic accelerated a growing trend that could significantly reshape K–12
education in the United States.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 74’s</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bekah McNeil agrees that we are in the
midst of a pandemic homeschooling boom. She writes that many families have
discovered that their children need something other than what is offered in
public schools, and find success using different curricula than they use.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/report/lets-get-small-microschools-pandemic-pods-and-the-future-education-america">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/the-kids-are-all-right-at-home-texas-north-carolina-nebraska-seeing-signs-of-a-pandemic-homeschooling-boom/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">While many parents are embracing pods, the teachers
unions are not happy with them.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Pods are a divisive trend. NEA president Becky Pringle
agrees that these new arrangements help teachers earn money. But she worries
pods will become more widespread and damage a public-education system already
reeling from budget cuts and struggling to fund Covid-19 safety measures. This
could open the door for more inequity, segregation and unsafe workplaces, since
pods are expensive and unregulated, she says.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation
of Teachers, says while learning pods highlight the need for more small-group
teaching in schools, she believes they’re a “pandemic Band-Aid” instead of a
long-term, viable career option.</i>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">But there are teachers who have a different opinion.
Unhappy with the way her school district handled the pandemic, Salem, MA
special ed teacher Krissy Rand put out her résumé. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Eight groups of families contacted her within three
days. She now makes more money teaching six first-graders from six families in
Wellesley, Mass. They are following their public school’s curriculum, and she’s
added cooking, yoga and earth sciences, with lots of hands-on experiments. She
loves that there are no rules and administrative red tape, and no sitting
through long meetings.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>“It’s a teacher’s dream,” she says. “The day flies
by.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-find-higher-pay-and-growing-options-in-covid-pods-11601204400">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Many parents who haven’t abandoned their local public
school are not happy with the way online teaching has been going. In Los
Angeles, nine parents have filed a class action lawsuit.</p>
<p><i>The parents are claiming that teachers in Los Angeles are offering just a
fraction of the instruction time seen in other large school districts. The
inadequate instruction puts Los Angeles students at a disadvantage and violates
their right to a basic public education under the state constitution, according
to the suit. The lawsuit comes at a time that the nation's second largest
school district grapples with the pandemic and the logistics of distance
learning when most students are living below the poverty level.</i></p>
<p><i>The Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, announced during a news
conference at the County Courthouse, also alleges that minority students,
particularly Blacks and Latinos, are disproportionately impacted.</i></p>
<p>To learn more about the case, go <a href="https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lausd-failing-students-during-pandemic-lawsuit-alleges">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In any event, parents are justifiably
concerned by the disruption to their children’s education. According to a
report issued on October 1<sup>st</sup> by Stanford University’s Center for
Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), on average, students in 19 states had
an estimated loss from 57 to 183 days of learning in reading and from 136 to
232 days of learning in math in the spring of 2020 due to the lockdowns.</span></p>
<p><i>"In the absence of any actual assessments, these results serve as
scientifically grounded estimates of what happened to students since March. It
will take extended broad-based support from all corners to address the current
deficits and the ripples they cause into the future," said Dr. <span class="xn-person">Margaret Raymond</span>, Director of CREDO at <span class="xn-org">Stanford University</span>.</i></p>
<p><i>Raymond adds, "For us, the bigger concern is the variation in loss
estimates across schools. The students who would have been at the back of the
pack if regular assessments had been used are the students that have the
deepest rates of "COVID Slide."</i></p>
<p>To read more, go <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/credo-at-stanford-university-presents-estimates-of-learning-loss-in-the-2019-2020-school-year-301144363.html">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The American Federation of Teachers’ yearly financial
report has just been released, and as Mike Antonucci notes, “the precipitous
loss of members unions feared has not occurred, AFT did indeed lose working
members in 2020,” but at the same time the union gained 22,000 new retired
members. Politically, AFT’s spending is, as always, a one-way affair.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AFT gave seven-figure
grants to four national Democratic Party super PACs:</span></i></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="https://www.senatemajority.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Senate Majority PAC</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — $3.4 million</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="http://www.thehousemajoritypac.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">House Majority PAC</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — $3.25 million</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="https://forourfuturepac.org/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Our Future PAC</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — $1 million</span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="https://priorities.org/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Priorities USA</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — $1 million</span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Six-figure grants went to organizations
and campaigns such as Emily’s List, the </span></i><a href="https://citizen.education/2019/06/11/schott-foundation-under-microscope-in-federal-investigation/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Opportunity
to Learn Action Fund</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and the </span></i><a href="http://stateinnovation.org/about/vision-and-mission/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">State Innovation Exchange</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, including an eye-opening $400,000 to
help elect Jackie Goldberg to the Los Angeles Unified School District school
board.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more about AFT’s finances, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/analysis-american-federation-of-teachers-membership-rose-in-2020-or-fell-depending-on-how-you-look-at-it/">here</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Best of luck to all of you, your families and your students
during these very trying times.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Larry Sand</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">CTEN President</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With schools back in session, we will
soon know how many parents have decided to stick with their local district
school. According to a recent Civis poll, about 40 percent of parents of k-12
students nationwide say that they have “</span><a href="https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/covid-19-impact-on-the-american-population/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">disenrolled their children</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> from the school they were originally
supposed to attend this year, in response to school reopening plans.” And of
those who have removed their kids, 20 percent have signed them up at a private
school.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here in southern California, school
districts are taking a hit, though primarily in lower grades. As reported by
the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Howard Blume, kindergarten enrollment in LAUSD is </span><a href="https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=7be3e459-8408-4a2b-8dde-f01f4f6dba1c"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">down 14 percent</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> from last year.</span></p>
<p><i>A principal in southwest L.A. said her enrollment drop is related to
serving a low-income minority community slammed by COVID-19. </i></p>
<p><i>“It doesn’t surprise me that parents are unwilling to take the risk of
putting a 5-year-old on a campus and also are not comfortable with a 5-year-old
sitting in front of a computer for a half or a full day,” said the principal,
who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak. </i></p>
<p><i>“Honestly, I probably wouldn’t enroll my children in kindergarten right
now,” she said. “Or, if I had to work, I would look at private options.” She
added that L.A. Unified is treating kindergartners too much like 12th-graders
in terms of time spent online.</i></p>
<p><i>In addition to the drop in kindergarten, some principals are reporting
declines in enrollment — and in meaningful student participation — in
transitional kindergarten and first grade.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/covid-19-impact-on-the-american-population/">here</a>
and <a href="https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=7be3e459-8408-4a2b-8dde-f01f4f6dba1c">here</a>.
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">So where will students go to be educated if not in a
traditional public school? As Lance Izumi, senior director of the Center for
Education at the Pacific Research Institute, writes, many will homeschool or
enroll their kids in a charter or private school.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…many charter schools are reopening
faster than regular public schools and parents have rushed to enroll their
children in these charters.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I have never seen this type of
interest in the 10 years that I’ve been involved with charter schools,” </span></i><a href="https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/some-families-considering-charter-or-private-schools-during-pandemic"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">says</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> California charter school
director Kathy Grbac.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, interest and enrollment in
private schools from New York to Minnesota to other states is increasing.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adam Baber, a private school principal
in New York, </span></i><a href="https://13wham.com/news/coronavirus/interest-in-private-schools-increasing-as-students-could-likely-return-in-sept"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">says</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that admission inquiries have
increased “partly due to our intention to reopen our campus safely and fully
with regular in-person attendance. We know many families are looking for that.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2020/08/13/with-teacher-unions-blocking-reopening-parents-seek-alternative-schools/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As we mentioned last month, one new school choice wrinkle
that is picking up steam and has received much media attention is the “pandemic
pod” phenomenon. As described by The Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey Burke,</p>
<p><i>Families work together to recruit teachers that they pay out-of-pocket to
teach small groups—“pods”—of children. It’s a way for clusters of students to
receive professional instruction for several hours each day.</i></p>
<p><i>Some parents are using their pod arrangements to hire teachers who will
supplement the online classes being provided by their school districts.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…As one mother named J Li wrote in
a </span></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jineris/posts/10157935029193393"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">viral Facebook post</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> last week, thousands of parents
are “scrambling” to form pods through “an absolute explosion of Facebook
groups, matchups, spreadsheets, etc.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">J Li describes the pod phenomenon as
“clusters of three to six families with similar aged (and sometimes
same-school) children co-quarantined with each other, who hire one tutor for
in-person support for their kids.” The tutor may serve as a full-time teacher
for the pod of students, or may only teach on a part-time basis or outdoor
classes.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read on, go <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/pandemic-pods-are-fundamentally-reshaping-k-12-education">here</a>.
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">It’s hardly a secret that the teacher unions are the
driving force to keep schools shuttered. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
only have they been insisting that the federal government needs to vastly
increase school funding before teachers go back to work, they have been making
other demands. As American Enterprise Institute education policy expert Rick
Hess explains, unions in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and
Oakland have joined up with the Democratic Socialists of America in a </span><a href="https://www.demandsafeschools.org/demands/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">coalition</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “calling
for a moratorium on charter schools and standardized testing, new taxes on the
wealthy, police-free schools, a halt to home foreclosures, and much
more.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, the American Federation of
Teachers, which supports “safety strikes” for teachers because “</span><a href="https://www.knoxnews.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/07/18/dead-kids-cant-learn-dead-teachers-dont-teach-honkathon-photos/5463422002/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dead teachers can’t teach</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” and “dead kids can’t learn,” launched
a </span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/511422-teachers-union-launches-500k-ad-buy-calling-for-education-funding-in-relief"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$500,000 ad buy</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in August, in which the union accused
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of “stonewalling funds to help schools
to reopen safely.” The union claims that billions are needed for comprehensive
contact tracing, mandatory masking, and updating ventilation systems. Yet, the
same union managed to </span><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/teachers-union-wont-go-back-school-will-go-daniel-greenfield/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">join up with Al Sharpton’s
National Day of Action</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
in Washington, D.C. on August 28<sup>th</sup>, where </span><a href="https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2020/08/29/picturing-racial-justice-at-the-2020-commitment-march-on-washington/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">social distancing was not
practiced</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and those who wore
masks were not overly concerned about a proper fit. AFT president Randi Weingarten,
who has solemnly reported that teachers are so scared of going back to work
that they’re, “writing their wills,” had no compunction about speaking at the
rally, without a mask.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It's important to note, that Sweden’s decision to keep
schools open during the pandemic resulted in no higher rate of infection among
its schoolchildren than in Finland, where schools did temporarily close.
Additionally, the risk of teachers catching the disease from children is very
low.
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/are-teachers-unions-overplaying-their-hands/">here</a>,
<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/teachers-union-wont-go-back-school-will-go-daniel-greenfield/">here</a>
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-schools/swedens-health-agency-says-open-schools-did-not-spur-pandemic-spread-among-children-idUSKCN24G2IS">here</a>,
and <a href="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-schools-sweden-denmark-5ff88c81-67e3-4c33-8b74-fe57b9555827.html">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, on the union front, Joe Biden claims that if he is
elected, he will try to<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><a href="https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ban state laws prohibiting unions from collecting dues</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or comparable payments from all
workers who benefit from union representation that unions are legally obligated
to provide.” This position is most interesting because he would have to
overturn the Supreme Court’s </span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1466_2b3j.pdf"><i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Janus</span></i></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> decision, the 2018 ruling which
stipulated that teachers and other public employees did not have to pay a union
as a condition of employment. As for Biden’s “…legally obligated to provide”
comment, perhaps he doesn’t know that the unions </span><a href="http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/12/12/who-are-the-freeloaders/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">insist on exclusivity</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">; it is not foisted on them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To read more, go <a href="https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/12/12/who-are-the-freeloaders/">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Something I’m sure that many of you have noticed is the
increasing politicization of our schools. The most recent development in this ongoing
saga is the new law that requires students to take an ethnic studies class in
order to graduate from high school. Interestingly though, not all the details of
AB 331 have been finalized. The law’s primary author, Assemblyman Jose Medina,
D-Riverside, proposed one amendment and accepted several others.</p>
<p><i>One amendment would push back the start date to the graduating class of
2029-30; districts would have to begin offering a course in the 2025-26 school
year. Medina said the new schedule would give schools and districts “plenty of
time to prepare for a smooth implementation” and give the state time to provide
funding for the new courses, which would be considered a state mandate.</i></p>
<p><i>Another amendment would allow a school district’s or charter school’s
governing board to adopt a “locally developed” ethnic studies course instead of
a statewide model ethnic studies curriculum that is being developed.</i></p>
<p><i>In early 2021, the State Board of Education is required to adopt the
model curriculum, which has been the subject of intense debate and criticism
and is now in its second revision. Since the model curriculum is intended to
serve as a guide, not a mandated curriculum, the bill would give districts and
schools flexibility to decide what would be taught.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For more details, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/california-to-require-ethnic-studies-to-graduate-high-school-under-bill-headed-to-gov-newsom/639432">here</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And finally, CTEN board member Rebecca Friedrichs is
promoting a way to get the word out about the teacher union agenda. She calls
it “Adopt a Teacher” and on her website, she writes,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Teachers are the key to bringing safety and healing to
our schools and country because state and national teachers’ unions use
millions in teacher dues (behind teachers’ backs and against their wills) to
push SeXXX ed curriculums, and divisive social and political agendas that are
against the values treasured by the great majority of America’s families and
teachers. But most teachers have no idea their dues are being spent on these
things because state and national unions won’t tell teachers how their dues are
spent, so we must educate them. You can begin helping teachers to see the truth
about state and national unions by sharing our stories and videos, and we’ll
add more content regularly, so please visit often.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To learn more, go <a href="https://forkidsandcountry.org/adopt-a-teacher/">here</a>.</p>
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<p> </p>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-4994825873986815372020-08-19T09:15:00.002-07:002020-08-19T09:15:33.590-07:00<p> Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
Back-to-school time this year has obviously been severely skewed by the Covid-19 pandemic. On July 17<sup>th</sup>, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that all but a handful of schools in California would be closed.<br />
<br />
But it was uncovered a few days later that schools could apply for a
waiver to reopen, something Newsom mysteriously omitted in his July
announcement. However, the waiver will not be granted easily. It must be
requested by the district superintendent “in consultation with labor,
parent and community organizations.” Then local health officers “must
review local community epidemiological data, consider other public
health interventions, and consult with CDPH when considering a waiver
request.”<br />
<br />
In other words, waivers will not be granted without having to jump through major hoops.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, a recent poll conducted by the California Teachers
Empowerment Network shows that many teachers don’t agree with Newsom’s
stance. The survey found that 56 percent of teachers said that schools
should open full time in the fall, while another 21 percent said that
they would prefer the hybrid model – part in-person and part online.<br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Schools%20Reopening%20Recommendations.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/california-districts-can-seek-waiver-for-elementary-schools-from-ban-on-in-school-instruction/636807" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Several education experts have suggested that we leave the reopening
decision up to an individual school—its parents, teachers, and
administration. Perhaps parents who are afraid to send their kids to
school can be taught online by teachers who fear going into a school
building. But parents and teachers who favor in-person education should
be allowed to do so. Everyone gets their way with this set-up. <a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/07/31/school_reopening_debate_shows_the_flaws_in_one-size-fits-all_education_model_110448.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Each family and teacher should have the flexibility</a> to make a decision that affects them. There is no need for a gubernatorial edict or even majority rule in this matter.<br />
<br />
It's important to note that the lack of in-person schooling is especially tough on low-income and minority kids. As the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/reopening-schools.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CDC</a>
claims, “These students are far less likely to have access to private
instruction and care and far more likely to rely on key school-supported
resources like food programs, special education services, counseling,
and after-school programs to meet basic developmental needs.”
Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics, having weighed the
pros and cons, maintains that <a href="https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">schools should reopen for in-person learning</a> for children’s overall well-being. And a <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/07/schools-should-prioritize-reopening-in-fall-2020-especially-for-grades-k-5-while-weighing-risks-and-benefits" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">new report </a>by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine echoes similar sentiments.<br />
<br />
Additionally, psychiatrist Carole Lieberman gives ten solid reasons why kids need to go back to school now:<br />
<br />
<em>1- Ever since schools closed because of COVID-19, most kids have
lost their enthusiasm for learning. Some kids, teachers and parents have
convinced themselves that there’s still learning going on, simply for
everyone to feel better.</em><br />
<br />
<em>2-Indeed, many kids stopped tuning into their zoom classes, and
“dropped out” to spend time sleeping, watching TV or playing video games
instead. But, they were given passing marks anyway and promoted to the
next grade, leaving a large hole in the foundation of their education.</em><br />
<br />
To read on, go <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/psychiatrist-warns-parents-and-kids-cant-hang-in-there-for-another-semester/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
But many teachers are willing to strike if told they must return to
school. To buttress support, the American Federation of Teachers has
sanctioned “safety strikes,” announcing it will <a href="https://apnews.com/4e8a446186df3c1962137dbe9faf7f38" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">help any local chapter</a>
that decides to strike over reopening plans. While the AFT will not
organize a national action, it would provide legal support and other
assistance to local unions that vote to walk out.<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://apnews.com/4e8a446186df3c1962137dbe9faf7f38" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
<br />
At the other end of the spectrum, Adam Peshek, senior fellow for
education at the Charles Koch Institute, wants to empower parents.<br />
<br />
<em>There are reforms we should begin to adopt as soon as possible—such
as focusing on small learning communities to continue
in-person education. This is a step that some families are already
taking—forming “learning pods,” micro-schools, homeschool cooperatives,
and hiring teachers independently. Facing the pandemic threat, they are
reimagining the “when and where” of the school day. This approach is one
that puts education and kids’ needs first. </em><br />
<br />
<em>There are ways to begin to offer this approach to all
families. Education funding can directly follow students, through
proposals like offering education grants directly to families, or
through education scholarship accounts. This could enable all
families—not just those with financial means—to participate in learning
pods and access outside learning opportunities.</em><br />
<br />
To read more, go <a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/07/31/school_reopening_debate_shows_the_flaws_in_one-size-fits-all_education_model_110448.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
As pundits dither over what to do in the near term, the future may look
very different after the pandemic subsides. Scott Lewis, <em>Voice of San Diego</em> Editor in Chief, warns that an enrollment crisis is coming.<br />
<br />
<em>If even 5 percent or 10 percent of parents don’t send their kids to
traditional schools this year, it would deliver a massive funding crisis
for schools that have already </em><a href="https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/many-san-diego-unified-schools-are-nowhere-near-full/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>been grappling with enrollment declines</em></a><em>.
The deadline to lay off teachers has already passed. It is difficult to
imagine how they can rearrange and cut costs swiftly enough to absorb
the change. Especially with increased costs to deal with the health
crisis on the horizon.</em><br />
<br />
<em>…The San Diego County Office of Education is advising districts to
prepare for parents who are not comfortable sending their kids back to
school yet. Some are worried that if they send kids to school, they may
carry the coronavirus to a vulnerable relative. David Miyashiro, the
superintendent of Cajon Valley Elementary School District, reported that
hundreds of his families have left the region because of the economic
catastrophe.</em><br />
<br />
<em>But there is also another challenge. Richard Barrera, a trustee for
San Diego Unified School District, said that if the federal government
(including the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate) does not bail out
school districts like his, then next year they will not bring kids back
to schools. Instead, they will continue doing distance learning as they
have this year except </em><a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-05-19/schools-wont-be-able-to-reopen-without-more-funding-districts-say" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>it will be a “lesser” version</em></a><em>.</em><br />
<br />
To read on, go <a href="https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/an-enrollment-crisis-is-coming-for-school-districts/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
On a similar note, director of school choice at the Reason Foundation and ardent parent advocate Corey A. DeAngelis writes,<br />
<br />
<em>Around </em><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cga.asp" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>50 million</em></a><em> students
were attending government schools before the closures. Even if only 2
percent of these families decide they want to continue homeschooling
after the lockdown, that would mean government schools would lose nearly
1 million students. Because the U.S. </em><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.asp?current=yes" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>spends</em></a><em> around $15,000 per child each year, on average, and because schools are partially funded based on </em><a href="https://edunomicslab.org/our-research/student-based-allocations/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>enrollment</em></a><em> counts, that loss of students could reduce government school funding by up to $15 billion each year.</em><br />
<br />
<em>But that’s not the only problem for government schools.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Families </em><a href="https://www.educationnext.org/meet-memphis-great-grandmother-who-confronted-elizabeth-warren-school-choice-sarah-carpenter/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>fight</em></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/School-Choice-Journey-Empowerment-Education/dp/1137442654" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>really</em></a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/can-you-make-a-good-film-about-school-choice-only-if-you-leave-out-the-politics" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>hard</em></a><em> to </em><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-01-13/national-parents-union-to-challenge-political-influence-of-teachers-groups" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>keep</em></a><em> their educational freedom once they get a taste of it. In a sense, those who exercise school choice become their own </em><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-01-13/national-parents-union-to-challenge-political-influence-of-teachers-groups" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>special interest</em></a><em> groups. For example, evidence suggests that thousands of low-income families benefiting from school choice programs in Florida </em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/school-choice-moms-tipped-the-governors-florida-race-1542757880" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>tipped</em></a><em> the
governor’s race in favor of Ron DeSantis in 2018. Families might
similarly fight to take their children’s education dollars back from the
government school system in the </em><a href="https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/types-of-school-choice/education-savings-account/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>form</em></a><em> of </em><a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/report/schooling-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-how-emergency-education-savings-accounts" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>education savings accounts</em></a><em> to help offset the costs of homeschooling.</em><br />
<br />
To continue reading, go <a href="https://reason.org/commentary/the-coronavirus-pandemics-impact-on-education-and-the-defenders-of-the-status-quo/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you have any valuable resources that you would like to share, or
report on what your school district is doing – good, bad or indifferent –
to deal with the “new normal,” please do so by emailing <a href="mailto:cteninfo@ctenhome.org" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">cteninfo@ctenhome.org</a> or posting on Facebook if you prefer. The CTEN page can be accessed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTENhome/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>, and the CTEN group can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125866159932/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Best of luck to all of you, your families and your students during these very trying times.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President</p>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-27012038344988958092020-07-15T08:06:00.001-07:002020-07-15T08:06:32.077-07:00<span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
With many school districts set to reopen in late August, there is still
much doubt as to what education will look like. As we mentioned last
month, the California state guidelines on schooling in a
coronavirus-affected environment were issued in early June, and there
were 45 pages worth of suggestions. It is important to stress that the
state guidelines are not mandates; it is up to each individual school
district to handle matters as they see fit.<br />
<br />
The new state budget in California provides $70.5 billion in funding for
K-12 schools and also sets fundamental accountability rules by
requiring teachers to take online attendance and document student
learning. As the <em>Los Angeles Times’ </em>Howard Blume reports:<br />
<br />
<em>Whether schooling is online or in person, the rules reimpose the
state’s minimum daily instructional minutes requirement of 180 for
kindergarten, 230 minutes for grades 1 through 3, and 240 minutes for
grades 4 through 12. Distance learning can be documented with student
work as well as time online. </em><br />
<br />
<em>Schools also must develop procedures for reengaging students absent
from distance learning for more than three school days in a school week.
Schools are allowed to develop alternate plans, with input from
parents, for achieving these mandates when necessary. </em><br />
<br />
To continue reading Blume’s piece, go <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-29/online-or-in-the-classroom-teachers-and-students-must-show-up-every-day-new-rules-say" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Those who insist that children should be back to school in a traditional
setting got a boost from the American Academy of Pediatrics.<br />
<br />
<em>The nation's pediatricians have come out with a strong statement in
favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall wherever and
whenever they can do so safely. The American Academy of Pediatrics'
guidance "strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the
coming school year should start with a goal of having students
physically present in school."</em><br />
<br />
<em>The guidance says "schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and well-being."</em><br />
<br />
<em>The AAP cites "mounting evidence" that transmission of the
coronavirus by young children is uncommon, partly because they are less
likely to contract it in the first place.</em><br />
<br />
<em>On the other hand, the AAP argues that based on the nation's
experience this spring, remote learning is likely to result in severe
learning loss and increased social isolation. </em><br />
<br />
To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/29/884638999/u-s-pediatricians-call-for-in-person-school-this-fall" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
In fact, according to a Gallup poll taken in late June, a majority of parents favor fulltime in-person learning in the fall.<br />
<br />
<em>Fifty-six percent of parents with children who attend a K-12 school
prefer their children's instruction be fully in person this fall.
Meanwhile, 37% prefer a hybrid program in which students attend school
part time and do some distance learning, while 7% want full-time
distance learning for their children.</em><br />
<br />
<em>…</em> <em>Concern about the coronavirus is a major predictor of
what type of schooling parents prefer. Overall, 46% of parents say they
are very or somewhat worried about their children getting the
coronavirus. Among those parents, 71% prefer their children have
part-time (59%) or full-time (12%) distance learning, with only 29%
favoring full-time, in-person schooling.</em><br />
<br />
<em>In contrast, 79% of parents who are not worried about their children
getting the coronavirus want them to attend full-time, in-person school
this fall.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/312674/parents-slightly-favor-full-time-person-school-fall.aspx" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
In all likelihood, distance learning will be a part of most school
district reopening plans. To that end, the Center on Reinventing Public
Education surveyed 82 districts that used some form of online
instruction this past spring. CRPE maintains that, “After a slow start,
districts have come a long way on remote learning.”<br />
<br />
<em>On March 20, we reported that in the </em><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/lake-how-are-districts-shifting-instruction-student-support-and-organizational-operations-for-coronavirus-early-survey-offers-5-takeaways/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>first week of closures</em></a><em>,
the districts we reviewed were focused primarily on school meal
distribution plans and student health and safety. About a third (15 of
the 46 reviewed) were exploring device distribution, and about half (26
of 46) were sharing links to online general educational resources.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Two months later, 61 percent of a larger sample set of districts (50
of 82 districts reviewed) provide remote learning plans that include
formal curriculum, instruction and progress monitoring, and 99 percent
of districts we reviewed (81 of 82) are providing students access to a
formal curriculum.</em><br />
<br />
But, of course, there are still many challenges. According to the report:</span>
<br />
<ul>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Students with special needs and English language learners are often left out.</span></li>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Device distribution and connectivity challenges limit access.</span></li>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Traditional student data tracking systems are largely absent.</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 13px;">To learn more, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/weve-surveyed-82-school-districts-that-launched-remote-learning-amid-the-pandemic-heres-what-did-and-didnt-work-this-spring-and-what-it-means-for-next-year/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
In the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, Manhattan Institute fellow, Daniel Di Salvo writes, “Will Unions Let Schools Reopen?”<br />
<br />
<em>The reopening of public schools poses an economic conundrum: If the
schools aren’t open, many parents will lack child care and be unable to
return to work. If parents can’t work, the economy can’t recover.
Teachers unions are thus in a position to hold the economy hostage.</em><br />
<br />
<em>The problem is that pension costs are assured to increase, even as
revenue plunges. In the first quarter of this year, public pensions lost
</em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/business/dealbook/coronavirus-public-pension.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>up to $1 trillion</em></a><em>
in market value. Teacher pension plans were in bad shape even before
state and local tax revenues collapsed due to the economic shutdown.</em><br />
<br />
<em>As Jonathan Moody and Anthony Randazzo show in an Equable Institute </em><a href="https://equable.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hidden-Funding-Cuts_National-Paper_Final.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>report</em></a><em>,
the share of education spending on pensions has nearly doubled, from
7.5% in 2001 to 14.4% in 2018. Even as states spend more, less money
reaches the classroom. This trend is about to be magnified. </em><br />
<br />
<em>… School districts are also asking for more money and warning state
governments that without it they will not be able to reopen. Recently,
school superintendents from Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach, Oakland,
Sacramento and San Francisco wrote to California’s elected officials
that any budget cuts will keep schools closed even after “clearance from
public health officials is given.”</em><br />
<br />
To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-unions-let-schools-reopen-11593445159" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
One result of the coronavirus is that school choice is ascending. As
Libby Sobic, director and legal counsel for education policy at the
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, writes in <em>Real Clear Education</em>:<br />
<br />
<em>“This pandemic has reawakened this movement of school choice,” said
Calvin Lee of American Federation for Children at a roundtable
discussion on school choice in Waukesha, Wisconsin this week. While
COVID-19 has not been easy for many families as they have tried to
balance work and educating their children at home, it has offered many
parents a window into their child’s learning that they never would have
had. If nothing else positive comes of this change of lifestyle during
the pandemic, parents exercising school choice will be a remarkable
silver lining—but there is a lot of work to do before choice is
available to all students across America.</em><br />
<br />
To read on, go<a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/06/29/the_pandemic_has_reawakened_the_school_choice_movement_110436.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;"> here</a>.<br />
<br />
Also, regarding school choice, the Supreme Court delivered a major victory on June 30<sup>th</sup> to parents seeking state aid for their children's religious school education.<br />
<br />
<em>The court's conservative majority ruled 5-4 that states offering
scholarships to students in private schools cannot exclude religious
schools from such programs. The decision was written by Chief Justice
John Roberts, who has joined the liberal justices in three other major
rulings this month</em>.<br />
<br />
<em>The court stopped short of requiring states to fund religious
education, ruling only that programs cannot differentiate between
religious and secular private schools.</em><br />
<br />
<em>"A state need not subsidize private education. But once a state
decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely
because they are religious," Roberts said.</em><br />
<br />
To read more, go <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/30/supreme-court-religious-school-students-eligible-state-aid/5122877002/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you have any valuable resources that you would like to share, or talk
about what your school district is doing to deal with the “new normal,”
please do so by emailing <a href="mailto:cteninfo@ctenhome.org" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">cteninfo@ctenhome.org</a> or posting on Facebook if you prefer. The CTEN page can be accessed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTENhome/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>, and the CTEN group can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125866159932/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Best of luck to all of you, your families and your students during these trying times.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President</span></div>
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CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-55492191001836018542020-06-17T08:38:00.000-07:002020-06-17T08:38:16.104-07:00<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
Last month’s letter began, “Things will get back to normal at some
point, but it’s anyone’s guess as to when and what “normal” will look
like.” And a month later, that statement still holds. The California
state guidelines on schooling in a coronavirus-affected environment were
issued last week, and there were 45 pages worth of suggestions.<br />
<br />
<em>Students should expect to wash their hands and have their
temperature taken often. They will likely wear masks and only attend
classes a few days a week with a small group of classmates. Signs and
taped marks on the floor will tell them which direction to walk and
where to stand in hallways and in the cafeteria.</em><br />
<br />
<em>…The guidance anticipates many districts will offer hybrid or
blended models of education, a combination of distance and in-person
instruction or a model where some students go to school and others stay
home for instruction, Thurmond said at a press conference Monday
morning. Many school districts have surveyed parents and learned many
want distance learning. Thurmond encouraged districts to accommodate
those requests to ensure small class sizes for adequate social
distancing.</em><br />
<br />
It is important to stress that the state guidelines are not mandates It
is up to each individual school district to handle matters as they see
fit.<br />
<br />
Also, as Mike Antonucci reminds us of the union angle in “Want to Reopen Schools? Better Be Ready to Bargain.”<br />
<br />
<em>Here in California, state officials have made it clear that they
will issue guidelines for school reopenings, but the ultimate decision
will be left to the individual districts. In the eyes of the California
Teachers Association, that means collective bargaining.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Last week CTA issued its stance on school reopenings, listing those
things the union wants to see in place before returning to work. These
included precautions with consensus agreement, like face masks, deep
cleaning, physical distancing and hand washing.</em><br />
<br />
To continue reading the summary, as provided by <em>EdSource</em>, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/students-should-expect-masks-temperature-checks-and-a-lot-of-hand-washing-under-california-guidance/633259" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>. To access the complete 45-page state guidebook, go <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/documents/strongertogether.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>. To read about the collective bargaining angle, go <a href="http://www.eiaonline.com/2020/05/28/want-to-reopen-schools-better-be-ready-to-bargain/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Then, there are different takes on the school funding issue. The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> maintains, “California schools face ‘devastating’ coronavirus cuts as they struggle to reopen.”<br />
<br />
<em>Even as costs skyrocket in response to the coronavirus crisis,
California school districts face major funding cuts that could
potentially lead to teacher and staff layoffs and leave some schools
struggling to safely reopen campuses in the fall, according to district
officials and educators.</em><br />
<br />
<em>The proposed budget hit to schools, about $19 billion split over the
next two years, worsens their existing financial challenges and does
little to help with pandemic-related costs.</em><br />
<br />
However, <em>EdSource </em>disagrees, insisting that “Most California districts would get more in federal aid than they’d lose in budget cuts.”<br />
<br />
<em>Through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security
(CARES) Act that Congress passed in March, California’s K-12 schools
would receive enough to cover more than 90% of the $6.4 billion that
Newsom is proposing to cut from school districts’ and charter schools’
funding in the next state budget to make up for a massive projected
decline in tax revenue.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Newsom is proposing a cut of approximately 8% of districts’ general
fund, known as the Local Control Funding Formula. It provides a base
amount and additional funding for “high-needs” students: English
learners, and low-income, homeless and foster students in every
district.</em><br />
<em>Federal aid makes up for state cuts for some California districts</em><br />
<br />
<em>…An EdSource analysis projects that of the 897 districts that
receive their funding through the funding formula, 546 school districts
and county offices of education — 60.4% of the total — would get more
CARES Act funding than they’d lose in cuts to the funding formula. These
numbers don’t include the 100-plus mostly wealthy “basic aid” districts
excluded from the Local Control Funding Formula because their property
tax revenues exceed what they would get through the formula.</em><br />
<br />
While the amount of money districts will receive remains unknown, Los
Angeles and San Diego have taken a stand, claiming that they won’t open
if their budgets are cut.<br />
<br />
<em>The LA and San Diego school districts are among the 1,000 districts
in California that would also be impacted by the 19% reduction in
funding for K-12 education proposed by Newsom this month.</em><br />
<br />
The districts’ superintendents said in a statement that Newsom’s
proposed budget falls short of the necessary funding to properly staff
and sanitize schools to reopen.<br />
<br />
<em>“More teachers and staff will be needed to do this extra work in
schools and to provide both in school and online learning programs,” the
statement said. “And the governor’s proposed cuts for public education
in the May revise to the 2020-21 state budget come at a time when
schools are being asked to do more — not less — to deliver a quality
education for students.”</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-15/california-schools-face-deep-coronavirus-cuts-as-they-struggle-to-reopen" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/most-california-districts-would-get-more-in-federal-aid-than-theyd-lose-in-budget-cuts-why-they-say-thats-not-the-full-story/632876" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/la-san-diego-schools-say-they-wont-open-if-budgets-are-cut/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Some recent polling throws some very interesting ingredients into the
reopening stew. In late May, a USA TODAY-Ipsos poll was released which
revealed that 18% teachers in the United States say they are unlikely to
return to in-person instruction if schools reopen in the fall.<br />
<br />
<em>New polling from USA TODAY and Ipsos found that some teachers are
concerned that even a return date in fall is still too risky. Roughly
one in five (18%) of teachers surveyed said they would leave their job
if asked to return in-person in the fall. Among those 55 and older,
which correlates to the teachers with the most experience, as well as
the ones who might be more susceptible to complications from the
coronavirus due to their age, the number rose to one in four (25%).</em><br />
<br />
<em>The data comes from a poll of 505 educators who teach kindergarten through high school.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://www.routefifty.com/management/2020/05/teachers-returning-poll/165654/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
But then again, there may be fewer kids to teach. A Real Clear Opinion
Research survey shows that support for homeschooling is strong, “The
results show that 40% of families are more likely to homeschool or
virtual school after lockdowns<em>.” </em><br />
<br />
Also, EdChoice, a national organization that advocates for state-based
school choice programs, joined with technology company Morning Consult
to poll American K-12 parents on how the coronavirus crisis has affected
them and their children, particularly regarding education.<br />
<br />
<em>Because many more American parents are engaged in at-home schooling
with their children, the survey asked, “How have your opinions on
homeschooling changed as a result of the coronavirus?”</em><br />
<br />
<em>Among parents participating in the poll, 52 percent said their view
of homeschooling was “more favorable,” with 28 percent labeling their
opinion as “much more favorable,” and 24 percent stating their view was
“somewhat more favorable.”</em><br />
<br />
<em>Of those parents who responded with a “less favorable” opinion of
homeschooling, 18 percent said their view was “somewhat less favorable”
and 8 percent said it was “much less favorable,” while 22 percent either
did not know their view or had no opinion.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more about the two polls, go <a href="https://www.federationforchildren.org/national-poll-40-of-families-more-likely-to-homeschool-after-lockdowns-end/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.politicopathy.com/2020/05/04/poll-52-of-parents-view-homeschooling-more-favorably-since-coronavirus-school-closures/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
In addition to homeschooling, another way to deal with the pandemic
would be to give every child a virtual backpack. As Center of Education
Reform president Jeanne Allen explains,<br />
<br />
<em>This virus has shown that education needn’t be “place-based,” or
dependent on a specific classroom, with a set number of students in
order to be learning. Helping a student master a grade-appropriate level
of competency in a subject is more important than whether they’re in a
classroom for a certain period of time. </em><br />
<br />
<em>We must make the student our only unit of learning and give every
student a virtual backpack that contains all they need to be educated.
That backpack must include a device, a hotspot, basic supplies, a meal,
and a ticket that gains them access anywhere to any school that has room
- public, private, or charter. The funds that the student has “earned”
for his or her district would be paid to the receiving school. The only
requirement, as long as students are remote and until issues of
accountability can be determined, is that the students’ attendance,
activities, and results (grades or otherwise) be reported through the
school to the state and isolated for that period of time.</em><br />
<br />
To read more about Allen’s plan, go <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanneallen/2020/05/12/the-solution-to-educating-every-child-going-forward-a-virtual-backpack/#3d3e4de0d5d2" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you have any valuable resources that you would like to share, or talk
about what your school district is doing to deal with the “new normal,”
please do so by emailing <a href="mailto:cteninfo@ctenhome.org" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">cteninfo@ctenhome.org</a> or posting on Facebook if you prefer. The CTEN page can be accessed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTENhome/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>, and the CTEN group can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125866159932/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Best of luck to all of you, your families and your students during these very trying times.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President</span></span>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-47041837503377477462020-05-20T08:39:00.002-07:002020-05-20T08:40:12.260-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Dear Colleague,</div>
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At the risk of mentioning the obvious, Covid-19 – the
disease, the people’s response to it, and its politics – still dominates the
news. Just about every teacher in the country’s life has been affected by the pandemic.
Things will get back to normal at some point, but it’s anyone’s guess as to when
and what “normal” will look like.</div>
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The Huffington Post warns us that “School Districts Are
Preparing To Lay Off Thousands Amid Coronavirus-Related Budget Shortfalls.”</div>
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<i>Individual school districts are primarily funded
through a combination of state and local revenue, with a small portion of
funding from the federal government. At the local level, school districts are
often reliant on dollars generated through property taxes, which can be a
disadvantage for poorer areas, inextricably tying districts’ fate to that of
their communities’ success. At the state level, education represents one of the
biggest items on a budget, often funded through a combination of income taxes and
sales taxes. </i></div>
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<i>As states work to revise their budgets amid
unanticipated deep revenue losses, school districts have been told to prepare
for draconian cuts.</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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To continue reading, go <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/district-layoffs_n_5ea9d25fc5b6ad0a43178b88">here</a>.</div>
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David Osborne writes that the “COVID slide is going to
make the usual summer slide even worse. Time to move to year-round school
schedules.”</div>
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<i>Districts and charter organizations could switch to
year-round schedules, which have developed in some places to combat summer
slide. Typically, these schools close for only a month or so at the height of
summer. They reopen in early August, then have two-week breaks in the fall, at
Christmas, in February and in April. Some charter schools bring kids who are
behind grade level in for intensive catch-up work during at least one of the
two weeks off each quarter.</i></div>
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<i>Thousands of schools have adopted schedules such as
this over the past three or four decades. A report from the Congressional
Research Service documented 3,700 schools with year-round schedules in 2012
(out of close to 100,000 total), up from 450 in 1985.</i></div>
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To read more, go <a href="http://laschoolreport.com/osborne-covid-slide-is-going-to-make-the-usual-summer-slide-even-worse-time-to-move-to-year-round-school-schedules/">here</a>.</div>
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The American Enterprise Institute has come up with “A
Blueprint for Back to School.”</div>
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<i>State policymakers, school leaders, and community
leaders should develop plans based on the following assumptions.</i></div>
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<i>•Schools will remain closed
for the rest of the 2019–20 academic year but will reopen in the 2020–21
academic year (albeit with the potential of localized rolling closures for
14–28 days triggered by additional waves of infections).</i></div>
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<i>•Reopened schools will need
modifications based on guidance from national and state health officials, which
could include physical distancing, temperature screenings, and frequent
disinfecting of classrooms.</i></div>
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<i>•Accommodations will be
needed for the one in five teachers, one in four school principals, and other
school staff who are over age 55 (and thus in a high-risk COVID-19 category),
as well as for those at risk due to other health factors.</i></div>
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<i>•A vaccine might not be
available for 18 months or more, meaning that plans should take into account
both the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years.</i></div>
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To learn more, go <a href="https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/A-Blueprint-for-Back-to-School-One-Pager.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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<i>USA Today</i> writer Erin Richards looks at what the
new education normal might be.</div>
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<i>The school week looks vastly different, with most
students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their
learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage touching. Some
classrooms extend into unused gymnasiums, libraries or art rooms – left vacant
while schools put on hold activities that cram lots of children together.</i></div>
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<i>Arrival, dismissal and recess happen on staggered
schedules and through specific doors to promote physical distancing. Students
eat lunch at their desks. Those old enough to switch classes move with the same
cohort every day – or teachers move around while students stay put – to
discourage mingling with new groups.</i></div>
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<i>Teachers and other education staff at higher risk of
contracting the virus continue to teach from home, while younger or healthier
educators teach in-person. </i></div>
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<i>Everyone washes their hands. A lot. </i></div>
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<i>Frequently touched school surfaces get wiped down. A
lot.</i></div>
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To read on, go <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/04/29/coronavirus-schools-reopen-online-homeschool/3031945001/">here</a>.</div>
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Additionally, it just may be the time to reexamine
Benjamin Scafidi’s study on the “staffing surge” in public education. This
researcher and economics professor found that between 1950 and 2015, the number
of teachers increased about 2.5 times faster than the uptick in students. Even
more outrageous is the fact that the hiring of other education employees –
administrators, teacher aides, counselors, social workers, etc. – rose more
than 7 times the increase in students. Scafidi writes, “If the increase in ‘all
other staff’ alone had matched student enrollment growth between FY 1992 and FY
2015—the most recent staffing data available—then a cautious estimate finds
American public schools would have saved almost $35 billion in annual recurring
savings. That is $35 billion every single year from 1992 to 2015, for a
cumulative total of $805 billion over this time period.”</div>
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To read on, go <a href="https://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Back-to-the-Staffing-Surge-by-Ben-Scafidi.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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One interesting thought on the future involves school
choice. Ginny Gentles, founder of School Choice Solutions, LLC., writes that
governors should be able choose to allocate federal funds in a student-centered
way by establishing K-12 education savings accounts (ESA) to cover families’
remote education expenses. </div>
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<i>In the five states with existing ESA programs, the
governors could expand the existing programs. In other states, the governor
could either provide funds to existing state-funded scholarship programs or
create a GEER-funded ESA or scholarship for the next year. Parents could use
the funds for technology, curriculum, online resources, tutoring, private
school tuition, or summer courses to compensate for the early end to the school
year. In areas where school districts are not providing online instruction or
therapies for special needs students, parents can use the GEER-funded accounts
to meet the needs of their children.</i></div>
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To learn more, go <a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/05/01/invest_emergency_education_funds_in_students_not_systems_110413.html">here</a>.</div>
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Not surprisingly, the unions have their own ideas about
next steps. The California Teachers Association is demanding a lot more money
from the Feds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i>There is no solution that does not involve aid from
the federal government combined with generating more state revenues. We are
calling on the federal government to authorize $1 trillion in the next CARES
Act and provide $175 billion for the Education Stabilization Fund to distribute
to states.</i></div>
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The American Federation of Teachers has cooked up a
20-page plan to “Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities.”</div>
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<i>The American Federation of Teachers has released a
detailed road map that, in the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, charts a path to
safely and responsibly reopen school buildings and other institutions crucial
to the well-being and economic vitality of our communities.</i></div>
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<i>The 20-page, science-based “Plan to Safely Reopen
America’s Schools and Communities” sprung from an intense collaboration of
public health professionals, union leaders and frontline workers to prepare for
what happens next in the period between flattening the curve and truly
eradicating the virus.</i></div>
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<i>It features five core pillars that inform our decision
to reopen the country based on the science as well as educator and healthcare
expertise—not on politics or wishful thinking.</i></div>
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To read more about CTA’s and AFT’s plans, go <a href="https://www.cta.org/press-release/safely-reopening-schools-requires-resources-and-funding">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-launches-landmark-plan-safely-reopen-americas-schools-and-communities">here</a>.</div>
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In
other news, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results of
the 2018 history, geography and civics test for 8<sup>th</sup> graders were
released. Not pretty. The level of proficiency for our students is scandalous.
Less than a quarter are at or above the proficient level in the three subject
areas, and only 15 percent are in U.S. history. (The assessment is given
predominantly to traditional public schoolers, but some private and charter
school students are tested.)</div>
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<i>The overall findings were distinctly subpar. In
history, students scored lower on all four areas measured by the test—the
evolution of American democracy; culture; economic and technical changes; and
America’s changing role in the world. The poor results were consistent across
all racial and ethnic categories too, with the exception of students
identifying as Asian or Pacific Islander.</i></div>
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<i>Across the three subjects, a quarter or more of
students fell below the “basic” performance category, meaning they didn’t have
even the fundamental prerequisite skills to master the content. Thirty-four
percent of students fell below the “basic” performance category in history,
compared to 29 percent in 2014. In geography, 29 percent fell below that mark
compared to 25 percent in 2014. There was no significant change in civics.</i></div>
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To learn more, go <a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/04/23/8th-graders-scores-drop-in-history-geography.html">here</a>.</div>
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And finally, our friends at the Association of American
Educators have come up with a list of coronavirus resources for teachers,
including training webinars, virtual educator resource sharing, a grant program
for teachers and a lot more.</div>
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To see what AAE is offering, go <a href="https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/aae-coronavirus-response">here</a>.</div>
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CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-55494625192348458022020-04-15T08:39:00.001-07:002020-04-15T08:39:46.451-07:00<span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
As the coronavirus has turned traditional education in the U.S, and
elsewhere on its head, we will do our best to provide support and answer
questions to the best of our ability until things return to normal.<br />
<br />
While no one knows when “normal” will return, pundits have been busy,
weighing in on what things will be like when that day comes. In
“Coronavirus School Closures Will Cause Irreparable Damage to Students,
Schools. How Policymakers Can and Must Soften the Blow,” Ray Domanico,
director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute, ends his piece
with a peek into the future:<br />
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<em>It is likely that public resources will be limited at all levels of
government, and education will be competing with health care, medical
research and other essential services for scarcer resources. Our leaders
have delivered a message that there are things more important than
schooling and achievement. This is undoubtedly true, but they will soon
need to deal with the implications for students, parents and teachers
for the foreseeable future.</em><br />
<br />
To read on, go <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/domanico-coronavirus-school-closures-will-cause-irreparable-damage-to-students-schools-how-policymakers-can-and-must-soften-the-blow/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Kevin Huffman, a former education commissioner of Tennessee, is even gloomier than Domanico. He sums up his <em>Washington Post</em> piece with a somber message,<br />
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<em>Our expectations for the remainder of this school year should be
low. Our teachers are trying their best, but their hands are often tied
by bureaucracy, limited student access to technology, the lack of lead
time to prepare for this situation and the limited effectiveness of
delivering school remotely. Results will range from lackluster to
catastrophic, with the largest burden falling on the poorest kids.</em><br />
<br />
To read more, go <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/coronavirus-homeschooling-will-hurt-students-badly/2020/03/27/f639882a-6f62-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Then there are the optimists. Shawn K. Smith, author of "Wisdom and
Influence: Mastering the Digital Convergence Framework," thinks that
remote learning can be more than a bandage.<br />
<em>Just as remote work – </em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-will-permanently-change-how-we-work-11584380290?mod=opinion_lead_pos5" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>even well before this crisis</em></a><em>
– started to become the “new normal” for American adults, remote
learning will one day become the “new normal” in K-12 education, and
we’ll finally break the bond between where students live and what they
can learn. </em><br />
<br />
<em>These may be dark times, but under better circumstances and with the
right approach, the future is bright. We will get through this
pandemic. And when we emerge on the other side of it, we will do so not
only prepared to never let this happen again, but ready to transform
education for the better.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/03/27/remote_learning_can_be_more_than_a_bandage_110403.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Sean Brooks at <em>American Thinker </em>suggests that the coronavirus could revolutionize education.<br />
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<em>It’s my estimation that this will be an awakening for countless
American K-12 school students -- and their parents -- that these
students actually don’t have to attend a ‘brick and mortar’ public
school in order to receive a high-quality education, followed by a
diploma. Once these students begin their online tasks, they may come to
the realization that online learning is far more in-depth, far more
rigorous, far more interesting, and yet far more quiet, as they don’t
have to look to see who is about to get into a physical fight, or detest
attending classes where teachers are indoctrinating them with their own
personal ideologies. Therefore, the presence of this virus and the
forced school closings that have occurred as a result, have perhaps
created the next wave of individualists and online learners in America.</em><br />
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To see more of Brooks’ thoughts, go <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/will_the_coronavirus_revolutionize_education.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
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Wherever you are on this issue, there is no denying that this is a time
of great upheaval. What follows is a list of resources, which will
hopefully be of help to teachers who have been thrust into areas they
never could have imagined just weeks ago.<br />
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First, National School Choice Week has posted, “Free Online Resources for Schools Shifting Online During Coronavirus Pandemic.”<br />
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<em>As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, spreads throughout the country,
more and more schools are canceling classes and shifting their in-person
instructional time online. Many classroom teachers are now trying to
understand the ins-and-outs of distance learning for the first time and
looking for free online resources for schools. What does instruction
look like? How do I ensure my students are still receiving high-quality
education? Will I be able to track the learning that is taking place? </em><br />
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<em>The good news is: help is available! Many companies are offering
teachers and schools access to their online platforms for free for the
duration of their closure. In the short term, a new education landscape
is forming, and we have put together a list of free online resources for
schools, educators, and administrators to help them navigate these
unfamiliar waters.</em><br />
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To view the resources, go <a href="https://schoolchoiceweek.com/keep-learning/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
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There is tons more info on the net. What follows is just a brief sampling:<br />
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<a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/lacey-download-vs-streaming-sans-serif-fonts-standardized-student-passwords-10-things-to-know-when-converting-to-an-online-classroom/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Download
vs. Streaming, Sans Serif Fonts, Standardized Student Passwords — 10
Things to Know When Converting to an Online Classroom</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.governing.com/community/E-Learning-Becomes-New-Standard-as-Schools-Close-Due-to-COVID-19.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">E-Learning Becomes New Standard as Schools Close Due to COVID-19</a><br />
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<a href="https://schoolchoiceweek.com/educating-students-with-disabilities-during-the-time-of-covid-19/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">NSCW - Educating Students with Disabilities During the Time of COVID-19</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.ccsa.org/posts/ccsa-provides-educators-with-special-education-distance-learning-resources" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">CCSA Provides Educators with Special Education Distance Learning Resources</a><br />
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<a href="https://edsource.org/2020/california-schools-chief-recommends-that-schools-prepare-for-distance-learning-for-rest-of-school-year/627562" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">California schools chief recommends that schools prepare for distance learning for rest of school year</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.the74million.org/putting-rivalries-aside-media-education-and-tech-giants-come-together-to-offer-free-lessons-activities-during-pandemic-all-in-one-curated-place/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Putting
Rivalries Aside, Media, Education and Tech Giants Come Together to
Offer Free Lessons, Activities During Pandemic — All in One Curated
Place</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/free-online-learning-resources-when-coronavirus-closes-schools" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Free, Online Learning Resources When Coronavirus Closes Schools</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-education-that-fits-each-child-11585328666" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Online Education That Fits Each Child</a><br />
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Here are a few resources for parents who are homeschooling:<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/16/were-all-homeschoolers-now/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">We’re All Homeschoolers Now </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/welcome_to_homeschooling_america.html#ixzz6GzaGWSO" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Welcome to Homeschooling, America!</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/free-online-learning-resources-when-coronavirus-closes-schools" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Free, Online Learning Resources </a><br />
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<a href="https://hslda.org/content/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Home School Legal Defense Association </a><br />
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<a href="http://laschoolreport.com/need-help-sorting-through-the-avalanche-of-online-resources-for-kids-who-are-now-learning-at-home-11-sites-for-parents-to-look-at/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Need
help sorting through the avalanche of online resources for kids who are
now learning at home? 11 sites for parents to look at</a><br />
<br />
Additionally, if you have any valuable resources that you would like to share, please do so by emailing <a href="mailto:cteninfo@ctenhome.org" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">cteninfo@ctenhome.org</a> or posting them on Facebook if you prefer. The CTEN page can be accessed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTENhome/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>, and the CTEN group can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125866159932/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Best of luck to all of you, your families and your students during these very trying times.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President<br />
</span>CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-39741674248065958702020-03-18T08:32:00.002-07:002020-03-18T08:32:59.919-07:00<span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
Super Tuesday has come and gone, and the big news for California is that Prop. 13, a “<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_13,_School_and_College_Facilities_Bond_(March_2020)" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">$15 billion bond measure</a>
to fund construction and modernization of public schools and
universities, has gone down in a stunning defeat. As Mike Antonucci
reports,<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2020-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/proposition-13-ab-48-chapter-530-statutes-2019-odonnell-education-finance-school-facilities-public-preschool-k-12-and-college-he/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>Supporters raised almost $13 million</em></a><em>
for the campaign against no funded opposition. The California Teachers
Association contributed $1 million, with the California Federation of
Teachers and SEIU also chipping in.</em><br />
<br />
<em>The bond also provided funding for charter school facilities, so the California Charter Schools Association kicked in $500,000.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Naturally, the measure also received substantial support from
developers, building trade organizations and assorted business
interests, including the state chamber of commerce and California
Business Roundtable.</em><br />
<br />
But as Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association president Jon Coupal suggests, Californians may be getting weary of ongoing taxes:<br />
<br />
<em>According to data from the California Taxpayers Association, voters
have rejected nearly half of the 236 local tax and bond measures on the
March ballot and another 56 remain too close to call. This is a
remarkable statistic considering the history of local revenue measures
in California.</em><br />
<br />
<em>According to the website California City Finance, local revenue
measures have had at least a 70 percent pass rate in all but two major
statewide elections since 2012.</em><br />
<br />
To read Antonucci’s and Coupal’s pieces, go <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+failure+of+the+2020+prop+13+coupal" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/03/08/is-failure-of-the-2020-prop-13-sign-of-a-new-tax-revolt/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Super Tuesday also saw the end of several candidates’ run for president.
In fact, it now appears that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the only
two who are still standing. Regarding their positions on education, <em>EdSource</em> has a handy guide to all the Democrat candidates’ positions.<br />
<br />
To access the guide, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/on-education-what-democratic-presidential-candidates-are-promising" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The NEA has just endorsed Joe Biden, and AFT almost has. Back in 2015,
after an alleged poll of .04 percent of the membership, the union
heartily endorsed Hillary Clinton as its choice for president. That move
really nicked thousands of the union’s Sanders’ supporters, and over <a href="https://www.change.org/p/american-federation-of-teachers-withdraw-your-endorsement-of-hillary-clinton-for-the-democratic-presidential-nomination?recruiter=2874199&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">4,500</a> teachers signed a Change.org petition demanding that AFT withdraw its endorsement. The union didn’t budge, however.<br />
<br />
Chastened, Randi Weingarten’s union promised to make it more open and democratic this time around. But on Feb 21<sup>st</sup>, AFT’s “<a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/aft-support-2020-presidential-candidates" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">executive council</a>”
made a top-down decision to winnow the field to just three candidates,
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Then, in a 3,300-word
post a week later, Weingarten anointed Warren as her personal favorite.
Shortly thereafter, Warren dropped out of the running.<br />
<br />
To read AFT’s and Weingarten’s statements, go <a href="https://www.aft.org/resolution/aft-support-2020-presidential-candidates" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a> and <a href="https://aftvoices.org/why-im-supporting-elizabeth-warren-cd30e7f6d53f" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>. To read about NEA’s choice, go <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/03/15/national-education-association-nations-largest-union-endorses-joe-biden-president/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
On school choice, all the Democratic candidates have been opposed and
vehemently so. Whether it be charter schools or vouchers, the
candidates, all trying to secure the blessings of the teachers unions,
have stressed the importance of maintaining the traditional public
school monopoly. But the Educational Freedom Institute has posted a
“school choice hypocrisy” map which details how politicians across the
country avail themselves of education options. For example, Joe Biden
“opposes funding programs that would allow less fortunate kids to attend
private schools, even though he sent his own kids to an <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/23/joe-biden-vouchers-sons-private-school/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">expensive private school</a>.”<br />
<br />
To see the map, go <a href="http://efinstitute.org/school-choice-hypocrisy-map/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a><br />
<br />
Ed Ring, co-founder of the California Policy Center, writes
“California’s K-12 Spending Exceeds $20,000 Per Pupil.” He claims that
the commonly acknowledged per-pupil figure is inaccurate.<br />
<br />
<em>For the most recent available historical data, start with $72.4
billion in spending in 2017-18, an amount that is found on the Ed Data
home page on their “</em><a href="https://www.ed-data.org/state/CA" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>Financial Data</em></a><em>” tab:</em><br />
<br />
<em>This figure needs to be adjusted as follows:</em><br />
<em>– deduct pre-school, adult education, and community college spending,<br />
– add the state’s annual CalSTRS contribution,<br />
– add debt service on school bonds (or instead, add capital spending,
but a lot of debt funds go into operating budgets (or “deferred
maintenance” budgets) so not sure which to pick – it should be one or
the other),<br />
– deduct from student headcount all charter school attendees,<br />
– deduct from total revenue all funds directed to charter schools,<br />
– verify that $72.4 billion was the entire gross amount of incoming funds.</em><br />
<br />
To read more, go <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/californias-k-12-spending-exceeds-20000-per-pupil/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Also on school choice, one of the area’s greatest secrets is “town
tuitioning” which exists in parts of New England. In Vermont, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/93-vermont-towns-have-no-public-schools-but-great-education-how-do-they-do-it/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">93 towns – more than a third of the state’s municipalities – have no public schools, and the kids get an excellent education</a>.
These “tuition towns” are small. So small that they really cannot
support a public school. Instead, tax money goes to parents who send
their children to a local private school. And if that school doesn’t
comport with parents’ expectations, the parents can place their kid in
another school, with the money following the child – all this with <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/school-choice-saves-money-report-shows" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">no added cost to the taxpayer</a>. As communication strategist <a href="https://fee.org/articles/93-vermont-towns-have-no-public-schools-but-great-education-how-do-they-do-it/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Dr. Laura Williams</a>
points out, “Because parents, not bureaucrats or federal formulas,
determine how funds are allocated, schools are under high economic
pressure to impress parents—that is, to serve students best in their
parents’ eyes.”<br />
<br />
Vermont’s town tuitioning program was launched in 1869, making it the
oldest school choice program in the country. Additionally, <a href="https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/programs/maine-town-tuitioning-program/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Maine</a> and, as of 2017, <a href="https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/programs/new-hampshire-town-tuitioning-program/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">New Hampshire</a> have tuition towns.<br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://fee.org/articles/93-vermont-towns-have-no-public-schools-but-great-education-how-do-they-do-it/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
As the sex ed agenda goes on unabated in California, parents in other
states are fighting back. Fourteen Wisconsin parents represented by
Alliance Defending Freedom and the Wisconsin Institute for Law &
Liberty, public interest legal firms, have filed a lawsuit in an attempt
to stop a policy they say “<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/20/parents-ask-court-to-stop-schools-from-helping-children-make-gender-transitions/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">instructs
teachers to assist and encourage children in adopting transgender
identities without notifying—and possibly while deceiving—parents</a>.” The suit specifically targets schools in Madison after the district adopted a policy which includes the <a href="https://www.will-law.org/will-sues-madison-schools-for-violating-parental-rights/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">following provisions</a>:</span>
<br />
<ul>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Children
of any age can transition to a different gender identity at school, by
changing their name and pronouns, without parental notice or consent.</span></li>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">District
employees are prohibited from notifying parents, without the child’s
consent, that their child has or wants to change gender identity at
school, or that their child may be dealing with gender dysphoria.</span></li>
<li style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">District
employees are even instructed to deceive parents by using the child’s
legal name and pronouns with family, while using the different name and
pronouns adopted by the child in the school setting.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: 13px;"> Hardly radical, the lawsuit very simply
calls for school officials to be transparent and honest when dealing
with parents, and “<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/20/parents-ask-court-to-stop-schools-from-helping-children-make-gender-transitions/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">to meet standards of informed consent</a>.”<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, California seems to be going in the other direction. <em>The Epoch Times</em>
reports that in January, the California Teachers Association changed an
existing policy in an internal document, to “explicitly include
transgender and non-binary youth among the students who can <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/minors-may-get-sex-changes-without-parental-consent-if-californias-teachers-union-has-its-way_3243361.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">leave class without parental permission</a>
to receive birth control, abortions, and other such services.” While
the updated policy does not include a provision for “hormone therapy,”
the rationale discussed by CTA’s civil rights committee in making the
policy change “indicates that’s the final goal.”<br />
<br />
Granted, while CTA is not a law-making body, the powerful union all too often gets its way in Sacramento; as one of <a href="http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/Education-External-Division/Big_Money_Talks.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">the biggest political spenders in the state</a>, the powerful lobby <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article233393557.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">holds great sway</a> of over many legislators.<br />
<br />
To read more, go <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/minors-may-get-sex-changes-without-parental-consent-if-californias-teachers-union-has-its-way_3243361.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you, as a parent or teacher, object to the sex ed agenda in
California, CTEN may be able to secure you legal representation. Please
contact us for more information.<br />
<br />
And finally, just a few words on the Coronavirus. With many schools
being closed, teachers have certainly been affected. I think the most
important thing we can all do at this point, is remain vigilant and sane
on the issue. For some perspective, go <a href="https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital-facts-about-covid-19/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>. To track the spread of the virus, go <a href="https://ncov2019.live/data" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Due to union “opt-out windows,” which are very possibly illegal, this
may be the time to quit if you are planning to do so. If you have any
questions about the process, or have experienced any problems because of
your decision to leave your union, please let us know and we will do
our best to help you – possibly getting you legal assistance, if
necessary. We will also be able to share your concerns with other
teachers across the state. And talking about sharing, please pass this
email along to your colleagues and encourage them to join us.<br />
<br />
Also, anyone wishing to donate to CTEN can do so very simply through check, money order or PayPal - <a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/donate.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.ctenhome.org/donate.html</a> As a non-profit, we exist only through the generosity of others. Thanks, as always.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President<br />
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CTEN Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751307659968605787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053337367254190785.post-53762497676351046382020-02-19T09:00:00.001-08:002020-02-19T09:00:41.520-08:00<span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Colleague,<br />
<br />
With the legislative session in full swing in Sacramento, Golden State
legislators are entertaining AB 1922, a bill mandating that climate
change education be a “coursework requirement for students in grades 1
through 6, and a graduation requirement for students in grades 7 through
12, starting 2025.” As Sydney Johnson writes,<br />
<br />
<em>Schools are encouraged to teach environmental literacy, which by definition includes climate change, according to </em><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PRC&sectionNum=71301.&highlight=true&keyword=environmental%20principles%20and%20concepts" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em>state law</em></a><em>.
The Education Code does not mandate that schools teach it, however. But
because climate change is in the state standards, and California’s
state science test is aligned to those standards, climate change could
appear on the statewide science assessment.</em><br />
<br />
<em>To emphasize the importance of these standards and the impact of
climate change more broadly, many districts have passed resolutions and
policies to commit to environmental education. Some have even included
specific actions, such as reducing carbon emissions on campus.</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, go <a href="https://edsource.org/2019/teachers-and-students-push-for-climate-change-education-in-california/618239" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a> and <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1922" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
As we mentioned last month, there is an election in California on March 3<sup>rd</sup>.
The issue of most interest to many teachers is Prop. 13, the School and
College Facilities Bond. As John Fensterwald writes in <em>EdSource,</em><br />
<br />
<em>The state has traditionally shared the cost of construction with
school districts, community colleges and universities. Since 2002,
voters have approved four bond measures totaling $45 billion, with 80
percent allocated to K-12. The last bond, in 2016, was for $7 billion
strictly for K-12. All the money from that bond has been allocated
or committed to districts that have applied.</em><br />
<br />
<em>School districts and community colleges also pass bonds for school
construction and repairs not covered by state aid. Local bonds require
55 percent of voter approval to pass. State bonds like Prop. 13 require a
simple majority of voters statewide.</em><br />
<br />
However, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) disagrees and explains,<br />
<br />
<em>Prop. 13 (2020) is a huge $15 billion statewide school bond chock
full of hidden traps for taxpayers. First, it reflects typical credit
card math by Sacramento politicians because it would borrow $15 billion
from Wall Street and then make taxpayers pay it back plus 80% in total
interest costs. That’s an additional $12 billion we’ll be forced to pay,
bringing the entire bill to $27 billion.</em><br />
<br />
<em>While no one disputes the need for adequate school facilities, the
problem is that the state’s education establishment has failed to show
that it uses existing school facility bond money effectively. California
voters already have approved big school bonds, including a recent 2016
$7 billion measure, only to see much of those funds squandered.
(Remember the infamous Belmont High School scandal when LAUSD wasted </em><em>hundreds</em><em> of millions building the nation’s most expensive high school on top of a toxic waste site?)</em><br />
<br />
To learn more, the ballot guide can be accessed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_13,_School_and_College_Facilities_Bond_(March_2020)" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>. Fensterwald’s take is <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/what-voters-need-to-know-about-the-proposed-15-billion-school-construction-bond-a-quick-guide/623149" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>. HJTA president Jon Coupal’s rebuttal can be found <a href="https://www.dailybreeze.com/2019/11/24/hidden-agenda-in-masquerading-big-bond-measure/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Whatever your take on Prop.13, the state is spending a lot on education
at this time. The California Department of Education projects total
state expenditures for 2019–20 from all sources to be a record <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/eb/yr19ltr1004.asp" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">$214.8 billion</a><u>.</u>
The problem in many school districts is the inability to live within a
budget. In Los Angeles, for example, after the six-day teacher strike in
January 2019, the district and union settled on a contract that many
questioned. Now, a year later, LAUSD officials admit to spending $18,788
per student. But in a mid-January interview with <em>EdSource</em>, school superintendent Austin Beutner indicated that the district receives just <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/one-year-after-teachers-strike-la-school-district-chief-says-strike-did-not-solve-decades-of-frustration/622038" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">$16,402</a> from the state to educate each child.<br />
<br />
Beutner went on to explain that LAUSD would have to borrow from future
reserves to cover the hefty shortfall. Knowing that kicking the can down
the road is a stopgap, he added that “we have to go to the Legislature
and get more funding.” Which means, of course, “We need to raise taxes.”<br />
<br />
UTLA leader Alex Caputo-Pearl sloughs off the problem by saying he is
skeptical about “doomsday predictions.” He claims that California is 43<sup>rd</sup> in the U.S. in per-pupil spending. Yet, according to the latest available data from the <a href="https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/econ/school-finances/secondary-education-finance.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, the state actually ranks 21<sup>st</sup> in state education spending. The same report also informs us that <a href="https://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2019/06/07/per-pupil-spending-for-the-25-largest-school-districts/#comments" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">L.A. is ranked 7<sup>th</sup> in per-pupil spending of the nation’s 25 largest school districts</a> (and 11<sup>th</sup> of the top 50), coming in ahead of Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Dallas, et al.<br />
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Speaking of unions, the Buckeye Institute has announced it is filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in <em>Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine</em>.
Professor Jonathan Reisman, an economics professor at the school, was
previously a member of the Associated Faculties of the University of
Maine, but decided to leave the union over political disagreements with
its state and national affiliates – the Maine Education Association and
the National Education Association. Now, Dr. Reisman is trying to free
himself from compelled union representation. Should he succeed, many
others will then be sure to follow.<br />
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The unions traditionally have complained that they are forced to
represent all workers during collective bargaining and ridiculed any
non-payer as a “free rider.” But in reality, it is the unions that are
the problem. No law forces the responsibility of exclusive
representation on the unions – in fact, the unions themselves demand it.
As Mike Antonucci explains, “The very first thing any new union wants
is exclusivity,” whereby “no other unions are allowed to negotiate on
behalf of people in the bargaining unit. Unit members cannot hire their
own agent, nor can they represent themselves.”<br />
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To learn more about the <em>Reisman</em> case, go <a href="https://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/library/docLib/2020-01-02-Petition-Filed-with-the-United-States-Supreme-Court-in-Reisman-v-AFUM.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a> and <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/lawsuit-to-end-forced-union-representation-appealed-to-scotus-led/article_07f086be-2dae-11ea-9e50-ffa4205b9c60.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>. To read Antonucci’s post on monopoly bargaining, go <a href="http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/12/12/who-are-the-freeloaders/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
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School choice was a prominent part of President Trump’s State of the
Union talk a couple of weeks ago. He specifically gave a shout-out to
Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4343" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunities Act</a>.
This legislation would provide tax credits to individuals and
businesses that make contributions to scholarship funds that could be
used to defray tuition costs at private schools, for career and
technical education, etc. Trump added that no parent should be forced to
send their kid to a failing government school. The teachers unions were
not pleased, to say the least. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/02/05/state-union-trump-makes-clear-his-aversion-public-schools/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Lily Eskelsen García</a>, president of the National Education Association fumed,<br />
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<em>Tonight, Donald Trump once again put the agenda of Betsy DeVos, the
least qualified Secretary of Education in U.S. history, front and center
in his State of the Union by renewing his push to divert scarce funding
from the public schools that 90 percent of students attend into private
school voucher programs. </em><br />
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Those who are school choice advocates have mixed opinions on the bill. Pacific Research Institute scholar <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/4/trumps-school-choice-plan-will-help-kids-and-is-sm/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">Lance Izumi</a>
likes the proposal, noting it would “not be a top-down federal program,
but would allow states to decide whether to participate and how to
select eligible students, education providers and allowable education
expenses.” Other prominent choicers, like the <a href="https://www.federationforchildren.org/american-federation-for-children-statement-on-the-state-of-the-union/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">American Federation of Children</a><u>,</u> are also positively disposed to the plan.<br />
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However, others are concerned with the fact that Washington would be
running the show. The Heritage Foundation maintains that the program “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/devos-tax-credit-school-choice.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">could invite further regulations</a>,
impede further tax overhauls and was out of the federal government’s
jurisdiction.” The Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey said that while the
proposal sought to “skirt the control problem” by making it optional, it
still invited <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/devos-tax-credit-school-choice.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">federal encroachment</a>.<br />
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Also, on choice, during National School Choice Week many groups used the opportunity to screen <em>Miss Virginia</em>.
The film documents the story of Virginia Walden Ford, the force behind
the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program
that lets low-income parents use public funding to send their children
to private schools.<br />
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Set in 2003, the movie portrays Virginia as a devoted single mom raising
her 15-year-old son, James, in a low-income Washington neighborhood.
He’s a bright kid, but a fish out of water in a tough school. James
ditches class regularly and even flirts with becoming a gangbanger. In
one heartrending scene, after he reluctantly joins local hoods in
assaulting an intelligent student, he is threatened with expulsion.
Desperate, Virginia enrolls James in a private school, but the $7,000
annual tuition becomes an even bigger problem, so she becomes a maid,
cleaning the office of a congresswoman.<br />
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The film’s turning point, however, occurs when Virginia discovers that
her son’s expensive private school educates children at half the cost
per pupil of the money spent by Washington’s public school system.<br />
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To read more about the film, go <a href="https://www.missvirginiamovie.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a> and <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/miss-virginia-school-choice" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
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And finally, as you well know, data and solid information are very
useful in scoring political points and making cases for various causes.
To that end, CTEN has a fact sheet on our website which has been updated
– all with original sources. To see it, go <a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/a-fact-sheet-about-unions-education-spending/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a>.<br />
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If you have information that counters what’s there or would like to see something added, please let us know.<br />
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As always, thanks for your continuing interest and support.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Larry Sand<br />
CTEN President<br />
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