This article comes from https://www.idahoednews.org/top-news/a-painful-reality-school-closures-follow-shrinking-enrollment-across-the-country/?brid=YWdncwE40l_v_VDBnKWzuqunWOFp BALTIMORE – School districts around the country are facing a painful reality as enrollments decline. For many districts, there are too many schools for the number of kids they’ll serve in a few years, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. It’s not a matter of if schools will close but when, as lower birth rates have led to smaller incoming kindergarten classes. “We have this misalignment and it’s making it really painful for districts,” Roza … [Read more...]
Voting against the Evergreen Levys is a good decision – Updated Jan 27th
Update Jan 27th: This link will take you to the brochure that is being distributed by the NO team: Please Vote No On Proposition 7 and 8 (1)-1 - Adobe cloud storage Why would anyone vote against something that helps children? Why would anyone vote against extracurricular educational experiences that children get fulfillment from? Well, the answer is not simple. The educational system in the United States has been in decline for decades. But the fact is that most people turn their head and just do not want to admit it. The results of standardized test scores that help educators assess how students are performing have been surfacing in the news and in parent forums. Parents … [Read more...]
Study Finds School Choice Closes Low-Income Student Performance Gap Tyler Durden’s Photo by Tyler Durden
Original article at Epoch Times The findings of the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI’s) October report underscore the positive impact of public charter schools in driving academic improvements across entire school districts, not just for students attending charter schools. According to the report, the achievement gap between low-income students and their counterparts in Camden, New Jersey, which had 68 percent of students enrolled in charter schools by 2023, was reduced by 42 percent between the 2010–2011 and 2022–2023 school years. From 2011 to 2023, the proportion of students attending charter schools in Camden increased, resulting in an increase of more than 20 percent in … [Read more...]
New report: Illegals are drastically altering the landscape of public schools
Original article at American Thinker Data doesn’t lie, and illegal alien minors are drastically altering the landscape of the public schools in Chicago. According to an in-depth analysis published at Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization with a stated mission to report on America’s school system, particularly the way it impacts those who have “historically lacked access to a quality education,” the demographics of the Chicago public schools is rapidly changing, and I’d argue, not for the better. While the number of (alien) Hispanic students skyrockets, blacks rapidly diminish. Where once there were experienced educators, now there are progressive activists, translators, and … [Read more...]
U.S. public school enrollment … has peaked!
Today's articles comes to us from WorldNetDaily. In the second half of the 20th century, enrollment in U.S. public schools nearly doubled. There was some slowdown during desegregation as enrollment in private schools surged. However, growth resumed by the early 1980s at a little less than 2% each year. But by the late 1990s, the growth rate began to noticeably slow, eventually falling to under 0.5% annually. Public school enrollment peaked in 2019 at 50.8 million. During the pandemic, parents pulled about 1.5 million children out of public schools. For the most part, those children do not appear to have returned. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) now estimates … [Read more...]
WA school leaders make case for more spending despite court-ordered funding bumps
How much money is enough for K-12 education in Washington State? The article shared today provides details. The original can be found at: TheCenterSquare Share the information with anyone you think is concerned not just about their taxes but the education of tomorrow's children. The Washington Association of School Administrators launched a new website last month that makes the case for increased state spending on K-12 education, even as the state's public schools now spend $19,000 on average statewide for the education of each student, a dramatic rise over the pre-McCleary level of $10,000 per student. The state Supreme Court’s January 2012 McCleary decision ordered the state … [Read more...]
4 Day School Week?
KPQ.com for the original article I feel like since the dawn of me being born, I have heard people talking about shortening the work week, and only working 4-days a week. Did I ever think it would happen? Nope. But it is! 4-Day Work Schedules are being implemented all around the world. "Iceland. Cold little Iceland – a country with just over 350,000 people living in it – actually has more workers working a four-day workweek than almost anywhere else in the world." - Source What about our schools though? Are 4-day Schools days going to be a norm? While we still have a while before that becomes a "norm," BUT there are multiple schools already in Washington State who have a 4-day … [Read more...]
How $20 million becomes $90 million in 14 years at Ridgefield School District
This article was published at Clark County Today on April 1, 2024. No it's not April Fools...walk through the numbers for yourself. The Ridgefield School District budgeted a roughly $3 million loss for 2023-2024 and is projecting a roughly $1.3 million loss now. Ridgefield resident Heidi Pozzo doesn’t believe it is due to a lack of funding. Heidi Pozzo for Clark County Today By now you’ve probably seen the news from Clark County Today that school districts are struggling with budgets. Those struggles aren’t confined to larger school districts, virtually every school district in the area is working on budget shortfalls. Heidi Pozzo Will Ridgefield School District suffer … [Read more...]
Ridgefield School District April 2024 Bond – Prop 10 Pro and Con
Following are statements from the Pro committee that will appear in the voters pamphlet. In the rebuttal we have included more in-depth details and information than allowed in the 75 words in the voters pamphlet. Why? Because there is far more to this than appears on the surface. Pro Statement for the Voters Pamphlet Ridgefield School District has added 1,337 more pre-K to 12th grade students since we passed our last bond in 2017, a 47% increase. Without space in our school buildings, approximately 1/3 of our students are learning in portable classrooms at any given point during the school day. The impact of overcrowding is felt by our entire community. Long pick-up and … [Read more...]
Camas School District – 2024 Levy’s – Review
There are two (2) Camas Levy’s this time around. In Part 1 we address Proposition 6 which is the Operations Levy. Part 2 is Proposition 7 which is a Capital Levy. It's worth understanding how much each school district gets for new housing construction. Camas gets $6,650 school impact fees.pdf (wa.gov) The voter pamphlet Pro/Con/Rebuttals can be found at: Camas School District No. 117 - Prop No. 6 - Replacement Educational Programs and Operations Levy - Prop No. 7 - Replacement Capital Levy for Education Technology, Health and Safety Imp..pdf (wa.gov) Part 1 – Proposition 6 – EP&O levy In February 2024 the Camas School District returns to voters to ask for “renewals” of … [Read more...]