Valerie Strauss

Washington, D.C.

Freelance Staff Reporter at The Washington Post

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Answer Sheet: Kentucky Judge Rules State Charter School Law Is Unconstitutional

Feb 8, 2024 | nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Valerie Strauss

A judge in Kentucky struck down a 2022 state law that allows public funding for charter schools and said that it would create a “separate and unequal” system of schools that violates the state’s 1891 constitution. In his decision, Circuity Court Judge Phillip J. Shepherd said that the law, known as HB9, violated a section in the Kentucky constitution that prohibits the collection of taxes for any educational purpose other than “common schools” without the consent of voters.
Maryland’s Blueprint education plan is too costly and complex, advocates say

Dec 28, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Nicole Asbury |Valerie Strauss |Ovetta Wiggins

CommentSaveMontgomery County schools leaders are worried. Their school system — Maryland’s largest, with about 160,000 students — is trying to comply with a state mandate to expand prekindergarten. It needs help from private providers, but nowhere near enough have signed up. The county fears it will end up violating the requirements of theBlueprint for Maryland’s Future, a landmark education reform law.
What Republicans really want from colleges

Dec 19, 2023 | postguam.com | Valerie Strauss

The now famous Dec. 5 House hearing where three presidents of elite universities gave unsatisfactory answers to a barrage of questions about antisemitism on their campuses wasn't the only thing happening in the room that day.
Analysis | What Republicans really want from colleges

Dec 14, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Valerie Strauss

CommentSaveThe now famous Dec. 5 House hearing where three presidents of elite universities gave unsatisfactory answers to a barrage of questions about antisemitism on their campuses wasn’t the only thing happening in the room that day.
Kentucky judge rules state charter school law is unconstitutional

Dec 12, 2023 | sfgate.com | Valerie Strauss

A judge in Kentucky struck down a 2022 state law that allows public funding for charter schools and said that it would create a "separate and unequal" system of schools that violates the state's 1891 constitution. In his decision, Circuity Court Judge Phillip J. Shepherd said that the law, known as HB9, violated a section in the Kentucky constitution that prohibits the collection of taxes for any educational purpose other than "common schools" without the consent of voters.
Kentucky judge rules state charter school law is unconstitutional

Dec 12, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Valerie Strauss

CommentSaveA judge in Kentucky struck down a 2022 state law that allows public funding for charter schools and said that it would create a “separate and unequal” system of schools that violates the state’s 1891 constitution. In his decision, Circuity Court Judge Phillip J. Shepherd said that the law, known as HB9, violated a section in the Kentucky constitution that prohibits the collection of taxes for any educational purpose other than “common schools” without the consent of voters.
Perspective | How did this charter school get a nearly $2 million federal grant?

Dec 6, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Valerie Strauss

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, some of them as for-profit entities, and they educate about 7 percent of U.S. schoolchildren. The 30-year-old charter sector has been riddled with financial and other scandals over the years, although supporters say that the problems these schools face are expected growing pains and that they offer families an important option to schools in publicly funded districts.
How Harvard, Penn, MIT presidents answered — or skirted — tough questions on campus antisemitism - NewsBreak

Dec 5, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Valerie Strauss

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How Harvard, Penn, MIT leaders answered — or skirted — questions on antisemitism

Dec 5, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Valerie Strauss

CommentSaveThe House Education Committee called the presidents of three elite universities — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — to a hearing Tuesday and demanded they answer tough questions about antisemitism on campus. Sometimes they answered directly. Sometimes they didn’t. Republicans, who lead the Education and Workforce Committee, did much of the tough questioning, but at least one Democrat did, too.
What House Republicans want to do to public education funding

Nov 17, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Valerie Strauss

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