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The Senate’s 50–49 Killing of ESSA Rules: A Sweeping Change in How America Will Rate (and Fix) Schools | The 74 ow.ly/8115309Mhip

Senate dumps Obama rule for holding schools accountable – POLITICO ow.ly/yIxR309Mga7

DEVOS

Betsy DeVos to Speak at Urban School Leaders’ Legislative Conference blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Distric

DeVos speaking Monday to urban school superintendents. From the last time a Trump surrogate spoke to this group: washingtonpost.com/news/education…

Betsy DeVos Meets With Trans Students After Dismantling Their Rights huffingtonpost.com/2017/03/09/bet…

Parents of Transgender Kids Meet With Education Secretary Betsy DeVos – NBC News ow.ly/DUeY309MgCQ

A closer look at the D.C. school that DeVos visited: Jefferson Middle washingtonpost.com/local/educatio

IMMIGRATION

State schools chief seeks clarity on federal immigration policy after L.A. incident latimes.com/local/californ…

Helping Immigrant Students Catch Up, Fast — It Takes A Whole School npr.org/sections/ed/20…

LAUSD

Two very different visions are battling it out – LA Times ow.ly/2X45309MiOS

The L.A. School Board Race Heats Up With Board President Now Headed for May Runoff | The 74 ow.ly/e3Wb309MiCK

LAUSD board President Steve Zimmer forced into runoff election ow.ly/TTaV309MiBi

The Fight Over Charter Schools Made Los Angeles’ School Board Races Historically Expensive | Mother Jones ow.ly/TCi8309Mixi

How has your classroom changed since the 2016 election? vox.com/policy-and-pol…

 

DISTRICTS

City Efforts Fail to Boost Offers to Blacks and Latinos at Top High Schools – Battery Park City – DNAinfo New York ow.ly/wL17309Mgfs

Seattle Schools may make ethnic studies mandatory kuow.org/post/seattle-s…

Anti-semitic incidents under investigation in two Md. schools washingtonpost.com/local/educatio

A Brooklyn Charter School Looks Past ‘No Excuses’ – The New York Times ow.ly/3UP1309Mg99

A School Where Raising the Bar Lifts Hope – The New York Times ow.ly/BfLZ309Mg85

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Russo

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.

Visit their website at: https://the-grade.org/