- “A year into the pandemic, thousands of students still can't get reliable WiFi for school.” —USA Today
- In three states, legislators are introducing bills to ban the use of the controversial 1619 Project curriculum, which frames the nation’s history around the oppression of Black Americans. —EdWeek
- Can the most powerful union president, Randi Weingarten, get teachers across the nation to return to schools in person? —New York Times
- “Is Biden lowering the bar for what ‘reopening schools’ means?” —Education Week
- Illinois’ policies have been driving people to other states for the last decade. Now, the state wants to mandate explicitly progressive viewpoints and activism in all public schools. —George F. Will
- The pandemic has raised demand for more educational options. Perhaps the future will have a more pluralistic educational system in America. —The Atlantic
- Families in Montclair New Jersey are fighting to demand in-person learning options, turning the mayor, a high-ranking teachers union officer, against parents and the superintendent. —NJ.com
- The pandemic has brought an unprecedented drop in Catholic school enrollment—the largest single-year decline in five decades. —AP News
- Stanford released a decade’s worth of data showing student test scores improving in California, on average, but revealing a widening gap between Black and White students’ scores. —EdSource
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