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School Cellphone Bill on Its Way to Georgia Gov. Kemp
The Georgia Senate passed a bill 54-2 on Tuesday that would require K-8 schools to have a policy on cellphone use. House Bill 340 bans electronic devices from "bell to bell," with some exceptions for students with learning disabilities or medical issues. School systems can decide how they want to store the devices, according to the bill. High schools are not addressed in the legislation, but it doesn't keep school districts from enacting cellphone policies for grades 9-12, Hilton said during a committee meeting.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_3abf0523-2b46-402b-9890-ffbb5c5c0d72.html
Bill to Raise Wisconsin Report Card Standards Approved by Senate
(The Center Square) – A bill that would change the academic standards used on Wisconsin’s state report cards back to prior levels passed the Senate and now will head to Gov. Tony Evers. The Senate voted 18-14 to approve the bill, which would reset the K-12 school report card standards of 2019-20, makes grades 3-8 standards the same as those set by the National Assessment of Education Progress and would make the high school testing standards the same as those from 2021-22. State Sen. John Jagler, R-Watertown, is a sponsor of the bill and noted the standards were changed behind closed doors and Evers has even called the decision a mistake. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/article_a128f288-04b0-11f0-9e02-b71c148aebc1.html
U.S. Department of Education to Cut Half of Employees
(The Center Square) – U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said Tuesday that as part of the Department of Education's "final mission," it would cut its workforce by half. Affected employees will be placed on administrative leave beginning March 21. McMahon said the department would "continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency's purview, including formula funding, student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students, and competitive grantmaking." When Trump took office in January, the Department of Education had about 4,133 workers. After Tuesday's reduction in force, the department's workforce will total about 2,183 workers.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1f823398-feca-11ef-b70a-77b78cbd860d.html
Senate Confirms School Choice Advocate Linda McMahon as Education Secretary
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, even as the department’s future existence remains uncertain. Lawmakers voted 51-45 to approve Linda McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration in Trump’s first term and is a long-time advocate of school choice. McMahon's background in education includes her appointment to Connecticut’s State Board of Education in January 2009, where she served 15 months. She also served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Sacred Heart University.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_d4f009d4-f86d-11ef-891b-2bd2bd785a20.html
DOGE Cuts Nearly $1B From Education Department Research Wing
Nearly $1 billion in contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences has been cut by the Department of Government Efficiency. Proponents say it is another step toward efficiency and eliminating waste; critics say the slash could cripple the nation’s objective assessors of academic achievement. Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Education proceeded Thursday, with conversation strong on how to change it and eventually lead to its closing. In a series of posts on social media, the Department of Education defended the cuts to the federal agency's research arm, saying it hasn’t helped students and that it spent federal funds on unnecessary contracts. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_e392419e-ea4b-11ef-8bf4-5f0781c4eef0.html
Ethnic Studies Fight Leads to Backlash Against CA School Board Member
The Palo Alto Unified School District Board voted this week not to censure a board member who previously voted against a measure to approve a controversial “liberated” ethnic studies curriculum for the district. Tuesday’s roughly five-hour PAUSD meeting saw the board vote on a resolution stripping Trustee Rowena Chiu of her committee assignments after her vote at a previous meeting and reposting a social media post that caused controversy. The controversy invokes the larger debates over the appropriateness of ethnic studies curricula that have embedded ideological positions and how school board members have been treated for speaking out on divisive issues. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_c30fd8f4-ea38-11ef-becd-cb86554841eb.html
Federally-Funded Teen-Led Sex Ed Program in Berkeley Could Be Axed by Trump Orders
A peer-to-peer sex education program at a public high school in California funded by taxpayers nationwide may be on the chopping block after President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds from going toward what he called gender ideology “indoctrination” for K-12 students. The federally funded AmeriCorps program at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, told students in the Sexual Health Information from Teens (SHIFT) program that sex does not equal gender and featured a gender unicorn to illustrate the difference between sex, gender and attraction. Trump signed an executive order in January to "end the federal funding of gender ideology."Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_eddec9fc-e8b0-11ef-9506-0f440730921b.html
Texas AG Demands Info From School Districts Over Transgender Athlete Policies
The Texas Attorney General’s office is demanding documentation from two school districts over concerns that they are allowing male students to play on female sports teams in violation of state law H.B. 25. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s letters to Dallas and Irving Independent School Districts requested training materials, communications over student eligibility for sports teams, and other information related to staff members who were filmed saying they would allow a biologically male student to play on the girls’ team. “The idea of school district officials turning their backs on female students and sacrificing the integrity of women’s athletics to advance the radical transgender agenda is disgusting, but that seems to be exactly what occurred here,” Paxton said in a news release Thursday.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_5e83209a-e4c9-11ef-814f-8f233ae7ed71.html
Department of Ed to Ease Oversight on Federal Funds for Charter Schools
The Department of Education will support charter schools by withdrawing a federal award program initially issued by the Biden administration and directing over $30 million to the nontraditional public schools, the department said. The Department of Education said it had withdrawn two “notices inviting application” for the State Entity Charter School Grant Program and the Charter Management Organization Grant Program over what it called “burdensome” regulations. The Department also announced it was directing $33 million toward charter schools through the Charter School Program (CSP) competition. The department said the actions better align the agency’s work with President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the expansion of school choice.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_db83c368-e3ea-11ef-b357-b7664c7e85b1.html
Pennsylvania ACLU Pushes Schools to Block Immigration Enforcement
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is asking school leaders in the state to resist federal immigration enforcement agency actions on school grounds after the Trump administration rescinded guidance preventing enforcement efforts near schools. While While President Donald Trump's directives would allow ICE agents to enter school property, there have been no reported cases of them doing so to date. The ACLU of Pennsylvania requested school superintendents, CEOS and directors in a letter this week to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from entering schools, accessing information or having contact with students or staff.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_2b8b09f2-e3e6-11ef-a76f-c7cd15548155.html
Trump Order Targets Funding of ‘Radical Indoctrination’ in K-12 Schools
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week outlawing what the White House termed “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools. Wednesday's order calls on agency secretaries to submit an “Ending Indoctrination Strategy” to eliminate “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including [sic] based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.” “Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand,” the order reads. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_804fb7b2-e021-11ef-94b4-b754c580c8a7.html
SCOTUS Will Determine Legality of Religious Charter Schools
A forthcoming Supreme Court case will determine the legality of the religious charter schools that operate with public taxpayer dollars. The United States Supreme Court decided to hear the case last week, seven months after the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School’s application to operate as a religious charter school in the state. Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas Fordham Institute, wrote in a commentary article this week that the case will likely address whether or not religious charter schools must be allowed in states that also allow secular charter schools. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/funding-spending/article_df73b9c0-df57-11ef-ae77-579ea7edabe7.html
Watchdog: NYC Teachers Acting Inappropriately With Students Requires Changes
The New York City Department of Education has received multiple recommendations from its watchdog organization to stop allowing teachers to contact students directly after it was found that two teachers had behaved inappropriately with students. In reports published on its website Monday, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District said the city’s education agency should amend its policy to create barriers between students and teachers to minimize grooming and inappropriate behavior. The New York City Department of Education did not respond to Chalkboard News’ requests for comment clarifying whether it was changing its position on teacher and student communications. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_6a477f9e-ddb1-11ef-b492-67e1b0b3d0bb.html
Trump Department of Education Scrubs DEI From Website, Staff Positions
The Trump administration’s Department of Education announced Thursday that it was working on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from its website and workforce. The agency said staff leading DEI initiatives have been placed on administrative leave, and over 200 web pages with DEI resources that “promote or endorse harmful ideological programs” have been deleted. It also killed over $2.5 million of DEI contracts, it says. The department said the actions aligned with President Donald Trump’s “ongoing commitment to end illegal discrimination and wasteful spending across the federal government.” Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_89d2f95a-da74-11ef-881f-c31173f69a5c.html
Report: Fewer Cultural Conflicts Occurred in Schools Last School Year
While tense school board meetings over cultural and other issues have dominated education news headlines, instances of culture war battles in schools have declined by 42% according to a new report from the CATO Institute. For more than a decade, the think tank has been collecting data on culture war trends in public schooling according to Neal McCluskey, director of CATO’s Center for Educational Freedom. “I am an advocate for school choice and one of the objections to school choice is if we could all choose schools we would be balkanized — everyone would go off to their own kind of school,” McCluskey told Chalkboard. “But there is also the implication that we would be at war with each other.”Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_7272796a-d8fe-11ef-9bc0-03938b12d2ba.html
Report: Here Are the Best Worst and Worst States for Educational Freedom
A new report from a nonprofit organization that ranks states by educational freedom found large differences between them based on their efforts to improve the school choices families have for their children. The American Legislative Exchange Council's Index of State Education Freedom, released Thursday, ranks states based on the school choice options and funding programs they offer students and their families. Andrew Handel, director of ALEC’s education and workforce development task force and the report’s lead author, told Chalkboard News which states ranked at the top of the index and the bottom based on their education choice programs. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/school-choice/article_93197c7a-d9aa-11ef-b8f8-1b4690022348.html
Trump Order Affirms ‘Biological Reality of Sex,’ Attacks Biden’s Title IX Rewrite
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to limit the government’s recognition to two sexes based on male and female biology, a reversal of the Biden administration’s attempts to expand the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity. The order Trump signed on Monday after his inauguration said the executive branch of the government would reaffirm “the biological reality of sex” and rescind the Biden administration’s regulatory expansion of Title IX. “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” the order reads. “These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_d539e03c-d823-11ef-a179-3bf6da8e641b.html
‘Parents Should Be Concerned:’ What to Know About the Powerschool Breach
PowerSchool, a large education technology company that provides services to public school districts, says it has been hacked and that the FBI is investigating the student data breach. Hanover County Public Schools in Ashland, Virginia, told parents on Jan. 9 that the hack included student names and addresses, parent contact information, teacher names and schedules. Parental advocates said the breach raises questions about the information districts collect about students. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_04e7fbd2-d38f-11ef-ab8d-cf99b65a721a.html
Oklahoma Sues Biden Administration Over Student Costs Related to Immigration
The Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction says the Biden administration failed to secure the southwest border, leading to rising education costs in the state. Superintendent Ryan Walters filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday. Walters and the Oklahoma Department of Education say the federal government should cover the additional costs incurred due to the influx of immigrant students. The lawsuit comes just days before President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration. Walters told Fox 25 KOKH that Oklahoma spent $474 million, and it is owed the funds back. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_c951d76c-d403-11ef-9a93-e3d9232216c0.html
Court Sides With Parents in California Case Over State’s Transgender Notification Policy
A California lawsuit alleging a school district’s parental notification policy for student gender identity violates teachers’ First Amendment rights will continue after a judge denied motions to dismiss the case on Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez said Mirabelli v. Olson would continue after California Attorney General Rob Bonta, members of the California Department of Education and the Escondido Union School District sought to have the lawsuit thrown out because the parental notification policy is “just a suggestion.” “Here, the State Defendants say the Plaintiffs lack standing because there is no harm to parents or teachers because the policy is just a suggestion,” according to court documents. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_869acc0e-ced5-11ef-abdc-a304341cf185.html
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