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SUPPORT Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Patricia Rucker said she supports new legislation to create education savings accounts.
CHARLESTON Despite being left on the cutting room floor during efforts two years ago to pass a sweeping education overhaul, some lawmakers and education reform advocates want to take another look at education savings accounts.
A coalition of Republican lawmakers, conservative public policy groups, and advocates for choice in educational options held a virtual press conference Tuesday calling for passage of legislation creating the Hope Scholarship.
“Right now, our activists across the state are working to strongly encourage lawmakers to support the creation of education savings accounts in the state,” said Jason Huffman, the state director for the West Virginia chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative grassroots advocacy organization.
Chicago Teachers Union Poised to Strike After Mayor Lightfoot Orders Return to School
1 Feb 2021
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is poised to strike following an order by Mayor Lori Lightfoot that teachers return to in-person learning in their classrooms.
CTU and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) failed to meet over the weekend to reach an agreement on how to get students back into in-classroom learning despite the coronavirus crisis. A strike would mean students will also not receive remote instruction.
Also important to note: CPS told teachers who don t return to in-person learning tomorrow it will not only lock them out of classrooms, but freeze their pay. https://t.co/9R3pjivCOc
27 Jan 2021
In a piece published at education site The 74 on the day of Biden’s inauguration, Mike Antonucci observed while teachers’ unions were continuing the narrative that “no one wants to reopen schools more than educators,” they “keep moving the goalposts.”
No one wants to reopen schools more than educators.
We love our students, our schools, our communities, and that is why the health and safety of our students, families and educators must be the primary driver of when it is safe for in-person instruction. https://t.co/iQVsACaYR2
“[F]or something that they say they want more than anyone, unions seem very committed to stalling for as long as possible,” he wrote. “’Not until it’s safe’ makes a good hashtag, but what do the unions consider to be safe? That’s where things get complicated and vague.”
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
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New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
Representatives attend the International Alliance for Christian Education’s inaugural meeting at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida in February 2020. | International Alliance for Christian Education
Dozens of Christian colleges, high schools, seminaries and Bible colleges have banded together to form an alliance uniting all sectors of Christian education to address the mutual challenges they face in an increasingly secular culture.
Coronavirus Stimulus Package Specifically Blocks School Choice
23 Dec 2020
The 5,600-page coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress Monday evening specifically blocks governors from using emergency education relief funds for school choice programs.
Page 1,865 of the 5,600-page bill states under “Restrictions” for the use of the $2.75 billion allotted for the Governors Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund, created in the earlier coronavirus relief bill in March:
Funds provided under this section shall not be used … (B) to provide or support vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarships, scholarship programs, or tuition-assistance programs for elementary or secondary education.
Eric Boehm wrote at Reason Tuesday the new restrictions on GEER funds come “seemingly in response to the fact that several governors used the first round of GEER funding to launch or expand school choice programs.”