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Cheers and Jeers: September 29, 2022

The Education Gadfly
9.29.2022

Cheers

  • Adding work requirements to federal aid programs helped cut child poverty by 59 percent since 1993. —American Enterprise Institute
  • Cheverus High Schools becomes the first religious school to participate in Maine’s tuition assistance program after the Supreme Court’s decision in Carson v. Makin earlier this year. —Washington Post
  • Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley proposes that summer school be mandatory for all K–4 students who are not yet reading at grade level. —NOLA.com
  • The universal expansion of the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program makes the state a nationwide leader in school choice, but opponents threaten to roll back recent victories. —Christian Science Monitor

Jeers

  • A New York Times columnist paints an overly-rosy picture of learning loss in America. —David Wallace-Wells
  • A college tuition assistance program in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is one of many social interventions that show positive effects for girls but not for boys. —National Affairs
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