LFC Daily News Clips | July 12, 2016
Good Morning Are you going to Cleveland or Philadelphia for the RNC or DNC conventions?
Good Morning Are you going to Cleveland or Philadelphia for the RNC or DNC conventions?
Good Morning With the Republican and Democratic conventions right around the corner, The 74 takes a look at the presumptive nominees’ views on education. – Trump: http://bit.ly/29DMM7Y Clinton: http://bit.ly/29qV4R7
Good Morning Check out Kim Martinez’s AFC blog on a unique Arizona charter school – it’s located “off the grid” on a Navajo reservation. http://bit.ly/29B0JDw
Good Morning Proposed budget from the North Carolina House and Senate significantly increases funding for the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program to give scholarships to nearly 36,000 low-income students over the next 10 years. http://bit.ly/294RzC4
Good Morning The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com reports on the Louisiana Scholarship Program’s wait list – the immediate impact of underfunding the program.
Good Morning The National Charter School Conference is underway in Nashville. Check out The 74’s article on what’s in store for the next 25 years of charter schools. http://bit.ly/28Y7q0v
Good Afternoon Louisiana’s second special legislative session – officially the 2016 Second Extraordinary Session – adjourned last night at 11:37 pm. The Louisiana Scholarship Program has been funded at $40 million. This is below last year’s funding level of $42 million. Many thanks to parents and allies who went to the legislature to press for […]
Good Morning On this final day of the special legislative session, lawmakers will convene without a final budget in place. The session must end by midnight. It should be another down to the wire finish. Stay tuned.