Category: Current News
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Friday News Roundup
Here’s your Friday News Roundup for January 9, 2026: “Constant Juggling”: Teachers Share the Job Stressors That Keep Them Up at Night (EducationWeek) Teaching is a hard job. No doubt about it. Long hours, low pay, little appreciation. EducationWeek recently asked a group of teachers to identify the stressors that impact them on a daily…
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Friday News Roundup
Here’s your final Friday News Roundup for 2025: Texas Universities Deploy AI Tools to Review and Rewrite How Some Courses Discuss Race and Gender (The Texas Tribune) Colleges are now using AI to search course descriptions to make sure race and gender are presented correctly, but what “correctly” means is up for debate. “A senior…
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Friday News Roundup
Here’s your Friday News Roundup! Vermont Property Taxes Could Soar an “Unacceptable” 12% Next Year (Burlington Free Press) Governor Greg Abbott Has a Sweeping Plan to Abolish Texas’ School Property Taxes. Would It Work? (The Texas Tribune) This Vermont headline could include almost every other state in the country. The cost of traditional public schools…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Why Parents Aren’t Reading to Kids, and What It Means for Young Students (The 74) Maybe there are other reasons our kids aren’t reading as much these days, other than social media. Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Falkenberg has written about Houston Independent School District leaders frowning on kids reading…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. In Sprawling Los Angeles, School Choice Faces its Own Kind of Gridlock (The 74) “Last school year, seven boys from six families met regularly in a Target parking lot off the spider-like network of freeways that winds through the neighborhoods north of downtown Los Angeles.” “At 6:50 a.m.,…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Push for Indiana Schools to Share Buses and Buildings Ramps Up (The 74) The 74 reported this week that, “A push from Indiana’s legislature for the Indianapolis school district and charter schools to share buses and school building is raising temper, as opponents jockey over scarce resources and…
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Friday News Roundup
Here’s your Friday News Roundup: Shut Out: Inequitable Access to After School Programs Grows (The 74) Wait! I thought “equity” was a bad word now, something we shouldn’t concern ourselves with in the public education system. Well for those who want us to stop focusing on “equity inside the classroom,” good news when it comes…
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Friday News Roundup
Here’s your Friday News Roundup. $200 Rent, District Supe as Landlord: Affordable Teacher Housing Is on the Rise (The 74) There are school districts that expect their teachers to live inside the school district’s boundaries. The districts pay the teachers $60,000 a year while housing costs run that teacher 1/3 to ½ of that annual…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Harrison vs. High Ed: How One Lawmaker is Weaponizing Social Media to Eradicate LGBTQ+ Curriculum (The Texas Tribune) Representative Brian Harrison from Midlothian, Texas. Although he did not pass one of his own bills in the last Texas legislative session, Harrison has taken it upon himself to shut…
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Friday News Roundup
Time for the Friday News Roundup. UT-Austin Considering Offer to Adopt Trump Priorities for Funding Advantages (The Texas Tribune) The Texas Tribune reported late last week that The University of Texas at Austin was considering an offer by the Trump administration that would grant the university access to substantial and meaningful federal dollars in exchange…
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