Cheers
- The “Zero Dropouts” team in Colorado pounds the pavement to track down chronically absent students and get them back to school. —Chalkbeat
- Large urban school districts are rethinking and expanding career and technical education programs to provide students with training in marketable skills. —Washington Post
- Colorado’s State Board of Education is holding the state’s teacher prep programs accountable for how they teach reading instruction. —Chalkbeat
- Massachusetts’s State Board of Education voted to raise the score needed to pass the state test required for high school graduation. —Boston Globe
Jeers
- Teachers in Columbus, Ohio, voted to strike just two days before the start of the school year. —Washington Post
- Federal rules for Head Start programs force children as young as two to mask up at school. —K–12 Dive
