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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
The school district of Freehold Borough, N.J., has a 32 percent poverty rate. It is fully surrounded by another school district, Freehold Township, which has a 5 percent poverty rate. (NPR)
Hillary Clinton didn’t ask activists dubious of her commitment to liberal causes for their vote Saturday. Instead, she asked that they “keep holding elected officials, including me, accountable. (Los Angeles Times)
The Republican National Convention kicks off July 18 and culminates with the nomination of the party’s candidate on July 21. And both halves of Politics K-12 are in Cleveland. (Education Week)
Colorado’s charter schools for the first time are enrolling racial and ethnic minority students at a higher rate than the state’s district-run schools, a new report by the state education department shows. (Chalkbeat)
The local teachers union has made rare common cause with a charter school: They are pressing to have the Los Angeles school district — not the charter — pay for costly retiree benefits that are due to teachers who worked at the charter. (Los Angeles Times)
New York
In leafy, liberal Park Slope and the Brooklyn neighborhoods nearby, many parents divide the local middle schools into two tiers: the “Big Three” and the rest. (The Atlantic)