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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
The last time she ran for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton did not have to take a position on the Common Core, Race to the Top or teacher evaluations in tenure decisions. (NY Times)
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), the chairman of the House education panel, said Tuesday that he is still a “handful” of votes short to pass his GOP bill to replace No Child Left Behind, the main federal education law. (Washington Post)
If Gov. John Kasich is going to run for president, he doesn’t seem likely to trim his sails on the hot-button issue of Common Core education standards. (The Wall Street Journal)
Charging that the state has breached its constitutional duty to provide “a system of free public education” for children in Tennessee, the Hamilton County Board of Education and six smaller school districts sued state officials on Tuesday, asking that the court order the General Assembly to address a broken system that has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of underfunding. (Chalkbeat Tennessee)
For years, Finland has been the by-word for a successful education system, perched at the top of international league tables for literacy and numeracy. (The Independent)
New York
After Republican and Democratic leaders could not agree on a proposal that linked immigration reform with an education tax credit in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed budget, the governor said on Tuesday that both would be dropped as negotiations continued. (NY Times)