CHARTER ACCOUNTABILITY IN MICHIGAN
Michigan’s superintendent of education announced that eleven of the Wolverine State’s charter school authorizers are at risk of being suspended or having their power to open new charters revoked. (Charters & Choice)
NEW ORLEANS’S CHARTERS
New Orleans’s first day of school will be an historical moment: for the first time, a major U.S. school district will operate entirely with charter schools. (NPR)
AP U.S. HISTORY FRAMEWORK
After the RNC claimed that the College Board “deliberately distorts and/or edits out important historical events” in its new AP U.S. History framework, College Board has released a practice exam and will clarify the criticized aspects of the framework. (Curriculum Matters)
TFA DIVERSITY
Half of Teach For America’s 5,300 new recruits self-identify as people of color, compared to 17 percent of the teaching force nationwide. (Teacher Beat, Hechinger Report)
FORDHAM IN THE NEWS
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