HURRICANE RECOVERY
After Harvey, Houston-area schools worried how many students would come back. Most did, but many are now homeless houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
Nearly 700 Students Displaced by Hurricanes Have Enrolled in Orlando Schools the74million.org/hurricane-mari…
How Florida’s school are welcoming Puerto Ricans, by @mkeierleber theatlantic.com/education/arch…
Anger at short notice for school closures in Northern Ireland shr.gs/8A5LrnR
TRUMP/DEVOS/USDE
Betsy DeVos fundraising talk draws hundreds of protesters – peninsuladailynews.com/news/betsy-dev…
Trump Is Speaking to Heritage; Four Things to Know About Its K-12 Record blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig…
PHILANTHROPY
What did Zuckerberg’s $100 million buy in Newark? A bit of progress usat.ly/2yqoh9r via @USATODAY
DISTRICTS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS
L.A. school board member Ref Rodriguez faces conflict-of-interest complaint over $285,000 in payments latimes.com/local/educatio…
High Schoolers Protest After Teacher Tells Student To Speak ‘American’ huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-jers…
Detroit charter school teachers vote to unionize on.freep.com/2ypR0Ln via @freep
Chicago Schools Secretly Overhauled Special Education At Students’ Expense wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…
Judge bars teacher sick-outs in Rhode Island school district hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie…
Philly PAC hit with record fine for failing to report $160,000 in campaign spending whyy.org/articles/phill…
STATES
Five things to know about the latest brouhaha over Tennessee’s TNReady test chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2017/…
Proposed New Mexico science standards omit global warming abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir…
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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