Many Public School Students Get 2nd Snow Day AP: Students in Philadelphia, Baltimore and the District of Columbia will get a second consecutive snow day as officials said schools will be closed in those cities again on Tuesday. See also Washington Post: For hungry DC kids stuck in snow, schools open their doors for meals, WNYC: Educators Cobble Together a Post-Blizzard School Day, NPR: For Some Schools, Learning Doesn’t Stop On Snow Days.
DPS Denied Injunction Against Teachers; New Hearing Set Detroit Free News: Judge Cynthia Stephens of the Michigan Court of Claims said she needs more information and that there’s no proof the Detroit Federation of Teachers or its interim president encouraged the mass teacher absences. See also AP: Q&A: A look at the Detroit Public Schools teacher sick-outs.
Teachers Union Calls for Stricter Charter School Laws in New York WNYC: According to a union analysis of charter schools sharing building space with district schools, 13.1 percent of students in the traditional public schools are English Language Learners, while the co-located charters served less than half as many. The charters also enrolled far fewer students with the most severe disabilities who require separate classrooms (1.5 percent compared to 7.1 percent of students in traditional schools). See also Chalkbeat.
Chicago Public Schools gives layoff notices to 227 staff workers Chicago Tribune” Chicago Public Schools turned to a familiar tactic in the face of its latest fiscal crisis, slashing its nonteaching ranks and eliminating vacant positions in a bid to save tens of millions of dollars.
Once-Lagging Neighborhood Schools Now Drive Improvement at St. Louis Public Schools St. Louis Post-Dispatch: For decades, children who have fared the worst academically in St. Louis have been those in its neighborhood schools. They tend to come from unstable housing situations, from the deepest poverty.
