HURRICANE SCHOOLS
How Hurricane Matthew helped spark a turnaround at an elementary school pilotonline.com/news/local/edu…
Holyoke Schools Prepare For Influx Of Puerto Rican Families After Hurricane Maria wbur.fm/2xMHT9v via @WBUREdify
For the next hurricane, Miami-Dade promises better shelters, more help for seniors and more ice. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
STATES & DISTRICTS
Georgia Gov. rejects state’s education plan myajc.com/news/local-edu…
California schools facing $24B in retiree health costs apnews.com/ebc0cc67da744b…
AZ schools brace for new performance grades cabinetreport.com/curriculum-ins…
Chicago Schools Reveals First-Time SAT Results wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…
Ex-school aide sentenced to 100 years for child sex abuse hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie…
Supreme Court Justices Try To Interpret Judge’s Meaning In School Funding Case courant.com/education/hc-n…
Louisiana high school orders athletes to stand during national anthem washingtonpost.com/local/educatio
DEVOS
At Harvard, DeVos Talks Choice; Protestors Yell ‘White Supremacy’ blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig…
DeVos met by protesters at Harvard speech on school choice abcnews.go.com/xmldata/story?…
TRUMP
District says it didn’t OK refusal of White House book gift abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/d…
‘Racist propaganda’: Librarian rejects Melania Trump’s gift of Dr. Seuss books washingtonpost.com/news/education…
CONGRESS & THE COURTS
A Primer on the Supreme Court Case That Teachers’ Unions Have Been Fearing – Education Week nzzl.us/X8oh9Kq
Why Spending on Schools Could Take a Hit Through the GOP Tax Proposal blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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