Hillsboroughâs charter school growth challenged by new board members
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Waterset Charter School in Apollo Beach serves more than 1,100 students. More than 30,000 Hillsborough County students are learning at charter schools, which use public money but are operated outside the school system. [ Courtesy of Waterset Charter ]
TAMPA â They campaigned on a platform to protect the public schools.
Now some Hillsborough County School Board members are looking for ways to change the way they deal with charter schools â those privately managed, yet publicly funded institutions that sign up tens of thousands of Hillsborough public school students every year.
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Kansas Sen. Ty Masterson didn t wear a mask at a Nov. 9 task force hearing at the Statehouse because, he told people in attendance, he already had COVID-19.
TOPEKA Kansas Senate President-elect Ty Masterson has had COVID-19 and told people at a legislative hearing at the Statehouse that his recovery from the illness makes it unnecessary for him to wear a mask in public.
The Republican from Andover, who believes mask requirements interfere with personal liberty, declined to say when and how he had been infected. His spokesman said Masterson posed no risk to those who were present at the Nov. 9 meeting where Masterson talked about his previously undisclosed illness.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen / Kansas News Service
Originally published on December 14, 2020 1:23 pm
WICHITA, Kansas The way kids in Kansas learn to read is in for a major rewrite.
Teachers will soon ditch their time-worn old memorize-and-context-clues methods. In their place, they’ll work with state teacher colleges on new styles meant to accommodate dyslexic students and other children who struggle with books. For instance, they’ll train kids to break down words and to methodically drill through English’s tricky rules.
Screening will be key to the new approach. Schools will put more effort to identify children with the poorest reading skills and give them special help before that weakness snowballs and sinks them on other subjects.