Cheers
- The pandemic forced schools to find better ways to serve English learners and their families. Let’s hope they hold on to those lessons. —The74
- “When I applied to college, I didn’t want to ‘sell my pain.’” —New York Times
- A Colorado bill to make districts’ approaches to reading instruction more transparent is getting closer to becoming law. —Chalkbeat Colorado
- Florida Governor DeSantis signed a bill to expand private school vouchers to 60,000 more students. —AP News
Jeers
- Hundreds of Catholic schools are going under during the pandemic, with some turning to GoFundMe just to stay afloat. —WSJ
- In Newark, New Jersey, charter schools are facing a legal challenge by opponents for serving too many Black students. —Star-Ledger (NJ)
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