This past month, ten policy analysts published reports about what occurred in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
ESSA Implementation
Colorado: Stevi Quate discusses Colorado’s choice of attendance as the fifth indicator in ESSA Colorado-Style: The Challenge of the Fifth Indicator.
Readers may want to visit ESSA Implementation in the States to see what your state is doing.
Higher Education
Texas: In Campus Carry VII, Michael Gos continues his series, noting that this August, students may carry a concealed weapon at community colleges. There is concern, however, over the presence of high school students who attend classes through dual enrollment.
Funding and Budget
California: Dan Melzer shares Assembly Democratic Leaders Announce “Degrees Not Debt” Higher Education Budget Package, in which the Degrees Not Debt Scholarship will provide a supplemental grant to full-time students receiving certain grants.
Connecticut: Stephen Ferruci addresses Debt Forgiveness in Connecticut given that Connecticut ranks third in student debt.
New York: According to Derek Kulnis, New York State Offers Free College Tuition through the Excelsior Scholarship to any New Yorker, within certain income limits, accepted to a community college or four-year public university
Pennsylvania: Due to declining budgets and enrollments, Possible Faculty Lay-Offs and Program Cuts are on the horizon, D. Alexis Hart writes.
PreK–12
Arkansas: In Little Rock School District at Status Quo, Donna Wake expresses the concern that the state is closing schools in predominantly African American neighborhoods after having passed a law offering charter schools the rights of first refusal for unused school facilities.
Donna also provides links for teachers to review Annual School Performance and an analysis of Teacher and Superintendent Salaries.
Louisiana: Jalissa Bates explains in Louisiana High School Students and Businesses Benefit from “Jump Start Summers” that grants from businesses support student efforts to attend school in the summer.
New York: Derek Kulnis posts that New York Changes Parent-Teacher Conferences by including students in the conferences to review their work and to provide time for teachers to have parental interaction.
Wisconsin: Kris Cody-Johnson shares state education information in Lifetime Licenses for Teachers Potentially Returns for Wisconsin, Wisconsin Requests Budget for Mental Health, and Voices Grow to Repeal Wisconsin School Start Date.
Wyoming: Tiffany Rehbein shares that Wyoming Districts Look to Sue State Over Funding.