Cheers
- Indiana’s new state budget allocates $1.5 billion more for charter schools. —The 74
- “It is vital that attending to students’ reading skills be designed to complement the specific content demands of the discipline, not replace them.” —Susan Pimentel
- Over the next two years, New York City schools will roll out three new reading curricula based on evidence-supported practices including phonics instruction. —New York Times
- “Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation providing parents $6,000 annually for private education, creating South Carolina’s first broad private K–12 school choice program.” —Post and Courier
Jeers
- Education reformers may have overpromised, but they never claimed ed reform would wipe out the Black-White wealth gap as this columnist claims. —Washington Post
- New York state’s “compromise” on lifting its charter school cap means just 14 new schools for New York City, and only in neighborhoods with low charter market share. —Wall Street Journal
- Michigan is eliminating its A–F grading system for ranking public schools, after already cancelling its reading retention policy—signs that ed reform in the Great Lake State has collapsed. —Detroit Free Press
