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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
Airon Pate is bouncing off the walls. The not-quite-2-year-old is waiting with his mom Dominique and brother Aiden, 4, to be seen at a federally subsidized clinic for low-income women and children here in Macon, Georgia. Sitting still is not in his repertoire of tricks. (The Atlantic)
After nearly a year of deliberation, the state Supreme Court ruled 6-3 late Friday afternoon that charter schools are unconstitutional, creating chaos for hundreds of families whose children have already started classes. (The Seattle Times)
What kind of tunes do you think Iago, the villain in William Shakespeare’s “Othello,” would listen to if he had an iPhone? That is the kind of question that Laura Randazzo, an exuberant English teacher, often dreams up to challenge her students at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, Calif. (The New York Times)
Kari Leonard is a mom of five, but on a typical weekday a visitor might find 10 young children in the living room of her Saint Peter, Minnesota, home. The children at her child care center, who are mostly preschool age, might be playing with blocks, or doing a craft project, or listening to a song as Leonard plays it in a foreign language. (Huffington Post)
As Republican Gov. Scott Walker prepares to campaign for president as the man who tamed Wisconsin’s unions, he’s taking on a new labor fight: weakening tenure protections for professors at public colleges and universities. (Politico)
Researchers have been tracking Jose Arriaga since he was 4 years old, waiting for the day he would start ninth grade. This fall, Jose is a freshman at Booker T.Washington High School, a selective public school in north Tulsa. And no one is more proud of him than his mother Veronica Arriaga. (NPR)
If Joe Biden runs for president, he can count on the kind of union workers who came here to march next to him on Labor Day: white, ethnic, from families that have been paying local chapter dues for generations. (Politico)
A dozen people who have been staging a hunger strike in Chicago for weeks to save the historic Walter H. Dyett High School have rejected the city’s decision to turn it into an arts school and are continuing their action, saying the community’s wishes have been ignored. What do these activists want? (The Washington Post)