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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
America’s public schools are on the cusp of a new demographic era. This fall, for the first time, the overall number of Latino, African-American, and Asian students in public K-12 classrooms is expected to surpass the number of non-Hispanic whites. (Education Week)
One of the fiercest critics of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took an initial step Wednesday to challenge him in the coming mayoral election. (Wall Street Journal)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Thursday that states could delay the use of test results in teacher-performance ratings by another year, an acknowledgment, in effect, of the enormous pressures mounting on the nation’s teachers because of new academic standards and more rigorous standardized testing. (New York Times)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers’ performance. (ABC News)
It was business as usual for a Democrat when Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis rolled out a plan for expanding preschool — until her opponent, Republican Greg Abbott, hit back with a pre-K platform of his own. (Politico)