Faculty Lounge Los Angeles Unified School District Looking at Making School Choice Easier Spencer Irvine October 19, 2016 Great news for the much-beleaguered LA Unified School District, their students and parents: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent…
Faculty Lounge Amid Teacher Shortage, Utah has Relaxed Rules on Teacher Certification Spencer Irvine Big news for Utah education: Utah’s State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a new alternative pathway for public…
Faculty Lounge California School District Tells Parents that Homeschooling is Illegal Spencer Irvine October 18, 2016 From School Reform News: School authorities in California sent a letter to homeschool parents telling them homeschooling is illegal, which…
Faculty Lounge Poll: Public Support for Common Core has Fallen by 40% Spencer Irvine October 17, 2016 From the School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: The survey, titled “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the…
Faculty Lounge School Choice Extension Bill Blocked by California Democratic Assemblywoman Spencer Irvine October 16, 2016 California lawmakers are looking at whether to extend the school choice program an additional five years, but one lawmaker is…
Perspectives The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle Spencer Irvine October 14, 2016 A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT,…
Faculty Lounge New York Educators Lowered the Standards to Pass Common Core Tests Spencer Irvine October 13, 2016 From the New York Post: The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on…
Perspectives A Guide to Fight for School Choice Spencer Irvine The Institute for Justice (IJ) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) issued a jointly-published guide on how lawmakers and…
Perspectives Charter Schools Work in Massachusetts Spencer Irvine October 12, 2016 The Pioneer Institute conducted a case study on Phoenix Academies, a successful charter school network in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts….
Faculty Lounge The Wells Fargo Scandal Sounds a Lot like the Atlanta Teacher-Test Scores Scandal Spencer Irvine October 7, 2016 A good read on the similarities between the two scandals: This all sounds a lot like the Atlanta public schools…
Faculty Lounge Why was a Teen Sent to Court over a 65-Cent Milk Carton? Spencer Irvine October 5, 2016 Teenager Ryan Turk is going to go to court over a carton of milk in Prince William County, Virginia: The…
Faculty Lounge Teacher Compared Donald Trump Speeches to Adolf Hitler’s Spencer Irvine September 27, 2016 A teacher at North Carolina’s Cedar Ridge High School was accused of comparing Donald Trump’s speeches to Adolf Hitler’s: Instead…
