Course Choice Program News Today

A state program to allow K-12 students access to more classes faces revisions this legislative session. The Course Choice Program, also referred to as the Supplemental Course Academy, allows students to take classes they cannot typically access. Created in 2012, the program is offered to K-12 students who want to supplement their course load or […] The post Parents could soon have say over superintendents for K-12 supplemental courses appeared first on Louisiana Illuminator.

No, public schools are not modeled after factories. Here’s why Betsy DeVos keeps saying they are. Valerie Strauss (The New Press) For years we’ve heard Democrats such as Arne Duncan, education secretary under President Barack Obama, and Republicans such as Betsy DeVos, education secretary under President Trump, slam America’s public schools as being built on a “factory model” that deprives students of their individuality and churns them out like widgets. Here’s...