ESSA
Bipartisan Concerns Mount Over DeVos’ Guidance on New Education Law | Education News | US News usnews.com/news/education…
House Republicans Warn Education Dept. on ESSA Overreach as Democrats Lament Lack of Accountability Rules the74million.org/article/house-…
ALL EYES ON COLORADO
Researchers Push Back As Betsy DeVos, ALEC Advance Virtual School Expansion EdSurge News edsurge.com/news/2017-07-1… #edtech via @EdSurge
What’s ALEC? Ahead of Betsy DeVos’s speech, here’s which states earn the group’s education policy praise chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/…
Network of education reformers continue to help shape governor’s race in Colorado chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/…
Trump Team, ALEC, Koch Industries Debate Gerrymandering the US Senate In Denver bit.ly/2uIMCrI via @BillMoyersHQ
FUNDING
Kansas Supreme Court again weighs school funding abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS…
Kansas school funding fix a tough sell to high court reut.rs/2u7qRR5
STATES & DISTRICTS
Number of girls taking AP computer-science exam more than doubles seattletimes.com/business/techn…
Business Group Defunds CPS Anti-Violence Efforts To Fight On Another Front wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…
Why high schoolers are still told to take the SAT/ACT as some colleges drop requirements indystar.com/story/news/loc… via @indystar
Another jolt for L.A. schools as civic group seeks a role in fixing school district latimes.com/local/educatio…
Sacramento district can’t find enough teachers, so it turns to Philippines for help sacb.ee/amQe
California’s next election will be a tug-of-war on education | CALmatters ow.ly/IoFO30dJFIy
MA charter school advocates refocus, but foes skeptical bostonherald.com/news/local_cov
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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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