It’s Thursday and ABPTL will be off tomorrow, so let’s focus on “A Little About A Lot”:
Trump, Bucking Congress Yet Again, Cancels $100 Million for Education (EducationWeek)
This past September,
“The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.”
Even though ABPTL believes in creating a new system of learning, and to do that requires a shift in funding priorities, the Trump administration’s pulling funding for existing programs – in the 11th hour – is immoral and unethical.
Not only is Trump not interested in supporting public schooling – especially for black, brown, and poor kids – he’s equally not interested in creating a new system of learning for all kids.
Texas Public Schools Could Lose $227 Million from Voucher Exodus, Estimate Shows (Houston Chronicle)
“Rural Texas school districts are posed to lose millions of dollars in funding this year after thousands of students reported using vouchers to leave for private or home schools, according to a new analysis of state data.”
“Across the state, at least 28,200 public school students took a voucher, an estimated loss of at least $227 million in state funding for their public districts.”
Change has begun in not only Texas, but across America – families are voting with their feet (and pocketbooks) by leaving their traditional public schools. Now, if only we can assure black, brown, and poor families have the same opportunity to choose something different than the sucky school their child is assigned to attend, it will be a very good day for young learners across the country.
Missouri Relying on Uncertified – or Undercertified – Educators to Fill Openings (The 74)
Do adult learning leaders need well-planned training? Yes they do.
Do they need to be certified by the state? Probably not.
In Missouri, along with other states,
“…[S]tate level data show a majority of those new to the classroom no longer complete ‘a comprehensive and traditional teacher educator preparation program’ with over 40% teaching with no certification, a substitute license or through an alternative certification route.”
“In a report released this spring entitled ‘The Fragility of the Missouri Teaching Workforce,’ the advocacy organization Aligned, similarly found that over the past decade the number of teachers in Missouri classrooms has remained relatively stable, yet the qualifications of the people filling those roles had changed, with far fewer entering schools fully certified and far more relying on temporary or early-career credentials.”
ABPTL will be away until Monday. Til then. SVB
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