Cheers
- School board candidates in Kansas made low test scores a main talking point in their campaigns. —NPR
- Some states are experimenting with auto-enrollment policies, where top students are automatically placed in advanced classes. —Brenda Berg & Jonathan Plucker, The 74
Jeers
- Wisconsin’s supreme court could overturn school choice in the state. —Wall Street Journal
- Portland teachers went on strike last week over pay, depriving the city’s 45,000 public school students of an education. —AP News
- A suburban St. Louis school district has conducted thousands of invasive investigations and home visits to bar non-resident students from its schools. —NPR
