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☆ To Shrink Learning Gap, This District Offers Classes Separated by Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Douglas Belkin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

EVANSTON, Ill.— School leaders in this college town just north of Chicago have been battling a sizable academic achievement gap between Black, Latino and white students for decades. So a few years ago, the school district decided to try something new at the high school: classrooms voluntarily separated by race. Nearly 200 Black and Latino students at Evanston Township High School signed up this year for math classes and a writing seminar intended for students of the same race, taught by a teacher of color. These optional so-called affinity classes are designed to address the achievement gap by making students feel more comfortable in class, district leaders have said, particularly in Advanced Placement courses that historically have enrolled few Black and Latino students.

Organizations: —, High School Locations: EVANSTON, Ill, Chicago, Evanston

☆ Kids Still Aren’t Going to Class, So Schools Are Getting Aggressive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Scott Calvert | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some schools are using marketing campaigns to raise attendance. Photo: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg NewsAt first, educators thought the plummeting attendance rates experienced during the pandemic were a Covid-19-related anomaly. Illness kept many students out of school, and families were wary of catching the disease. Now, more than two years after most schools resumed in-person classes, absences are still skyrocketing. Covid-19 has mostly faded as a concern, but it has left behind a changed attitude about going to school every day.

Persons: Emily Elconin Organizations: Bloomberg

☆ Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some board members raised issues with textbooks presenting the scientific theory of evolution or asserting that the U.S. isn’t energy independent. Photo: allison dinner/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesThe Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to block science lessons published by eight companies from appearing on an influential statewide list of textbook providers, citing problems with the way they depicted climate change and evolution. Some of the 15 elected board members raised issues with a book from publisher Discovery Education because it discussed how the U.S. isn’t energy independent and lags behind other nations in oil reserves. A biology textbook from McGraw Hill won approval only after the publisher agreed to remove some graphics depicting human and primate evolution.

Persons: allison, McGraw Hill Organizations: Agence France, The Texas State, of Education, Discovery Education, McGraw Locations: U.S

Student-led demonstrations have taken place on college campuses across the U.S. since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last month. Photo: Chin Hei Leung/Zuma PressRising tensions on campuses related to the Israel-Hamas war have led to widespread calls for colleges to do more to protect Jewish students from bigotry and threats of physical harm. A group of more than 30 Modern Orthodox high schools has joined donors, alumni and law firms in calling on colleges to rein in antisemitism after a rash of protests and antisemitic incidents on campuses that have left many Jewish students deeply unnerved.

Persons: Chin Hei Leung Organizations: Hamas, Zuma Locations: Israel

☆ Schools Cut Honors Classes to Address Racial Equity. It Isn’t a Quick Fix.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Should Schools Tell Parents When Kids Say They’re Transgender?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Welcome Back to School. Your Teacher is 2,000 Miles Away.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Ash Ponders For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ More States Threaten to Hold Back Third-Graders Who Can’t Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Scott Calvert | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Ryan Tracy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ When Tutoring Isn’t Enough, There’s $250-an-Hour Educational Therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Nation’s First Religious Charter School Approved in Oklahoma
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Special-Education System Stacked Against Families, Lawsuit Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Schools Are Ditching Homework, Deadlines in Favor of ‘Equitable Grading’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Miranda Alam For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they have mastered a subject without being held to arbitrary deadlines, in recognition of challenges some children have outside school. Soon after the system was introduced, however, Ms. Penrod said her 11th-grade honors students realized the new rules minimized the importance of homework to their final grades, leading many to forgo the brainstorming and rough drafts required ahead of writing a persuasive essay. Some didn’t turn in the essay at all, knowing they could redo it later.

☆ Los Angeles Schools Reach Deal on Pay Raises With Support Staff
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Los Angeles District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, at lectern, SEIU Local 99 Executive Director Max Arias and Mayor Karen Bass on Friday. LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District reached a deal Friday to increase pay and improve benefits for 30,000 support staff, culminating a week that saw the nation’s second-largest school system shut down for three days by a strike. The accord with Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, if approved by union members and the school board, will affect a workforce of bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitors, teachers’ assistants and other support staff, who haven’t had a contract since 2020.

☆ Los Angeles School Strike Ends Without New Contracts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LOS ANGELES—Students are set to return to classrooms in the Los Angeles Unified School District on Friday after a three-day labor strike ended, but without contract agreements for 65,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s second-largest school system. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stepped in this week to help broker a deal between the district and Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, both sides said. The union, which represents 30,000 bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitors, teacher’s assistants and other support staff, hasn’t had a contract since 2020.

☆ Some School Districts Are Eliminating Honors Classes. Many Parents Aren’t Happy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Lauren Justice For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Since the start of this school year, freshmen and sophomores in Culver City have only been able to select one level of English class, known as College Prep, rather than the previous system in which anyone could opt into the honors class. Elena Frigola is an 11th-grade student in Culver City, Calif.

☆ Parents Challenge Lottery Systems Used to Diversify Elite High Schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Philadelphia’s school district overhauled the admissions process at its most-elite public high schools to try to improve socioeconomic and racial diversity, the reaction from parents came quickly. In surveys and at school-board meetings, parents called the shift to a lottery system demeaning, unfair, stressful and the opposite of equitable. Families shared stories of high-achieving children failing to win a seat in any of the district’s selective high schools, or being placed in a school too far away or one misaligned with student interests.

☆ Authorities Arrest Suspect After Shooting Death of Los Angeles Bishop
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies guarded the entrance to the street of Bishop David O’Connell’s home in Hacienda Heights, Calif.A suspect has been arrested in connection in the weekend shooting death of a Los Angeles-area Roman Catholic bishop, law-enforcement officials said Monday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said it plans to release details later Monday about the arrest in the case of Bishop David O’Connell, who was found shot dead Saturday at his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community in east Los Angeles County.

☆ Mass Shootings Kill One at a Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans, One at a Memphis Nightclub
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Law-enforcement officers arrived Sunday night in New Orleans moments after shots were fired and arrested a suspected shooter. Two people were killed and 14 others injured in mass shootings that occurred over the weekend during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans and at a nightclub in Memphis, police said. In New Orleans, law enforcement arrived Sunday night moments after shots were fired around 9:30 p.m. and arrested a suspected shooter, according to the New Orleans Police Department. One male later died and two other men and two women—including one juvenile—were being treated at a hospital in stable condition, according to officials.

☆ Mass Shooting at New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade Kills 1, Injures 4
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The scene of a shooting during Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans Sunday night. One person died and four others were injured after a shooting during Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans Sunday night, police said Monday. The New Orleans Police Department said law enforcement arrived moments after shots were fired around 9:30 p.m. and arrested a suspected shooter. One man later died and two other men and two women—including one juvenile—were being treated at a hospital and are in stable condition, according to officials.

☆ Housekeeper’s Husband Arrested in Shooting Death of Los Angeles Bishop
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sara Randazzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies guarded the entrance to the street of Bishop David O’Connell’s home in Hacienda Heights, Calif. The husband of the housekeeper of a Roman Catholic bishop has been arrested in the Southern California clergyman’s shooting death, law-enforcement officials said Monday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Monday detailed a round-the-clock investigation and manhunt leading to an arrest in the case of Bishop David O’Connell, who was found shot dead Saturday in his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community in east Los Angeles County.

☆ To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Lauren Justice For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CULVER CITY, Calif.—A group of parents stepped to the lectern Tuesday night at a school board meeting in this middle-class, Los Angeles-area city to push back against a racial-equity initiative. The high school, they argued, should reinstate honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students. The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education.

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