Cheers
- Los Angeles’s Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s 100-day plan would tackle learning loss by lengthening the school year and creating year-round instructional opportunities for high-needs students. —LA Times
- A federal judge threw out the new admission policies for Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, ruling that they are unconstitutionally discriminatory against Asian Americans. —Washington Post
- “Maryland should require rigorous standardized tests of students starting at the ages of four or five. No kidding.” —Baltimore Sun
- “America should build 10,000 new charter schools,” to meet the demand of one million students on waitlists. —RealClearPolicy
- Contra Rick Hess, the way forward for the pro-charter school coalition is still a bipartisan one. —Nina Rees
Jeers
- Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s high school guidance counselor advised her to aim lower after learning that she wanted to attend Harvard. —Washington Post
