using fewer portable classrooms

that is going to be working on improving poor student attendance numbers.

looking at state educational standards.

They report:

The Common Core standards are clearly superior to those currently in use in thirty-nine states in math and thirty-seven states in English. For thirty-three states, the Common Core is superior in both math and reading.

California, the District of Columbia, and Indiana have ELA standards that are better than Common Core standards. Eleven states have ELA standards that are in the same league as the Common Core.

Eleven states plus the District of Columbia have math standards in the “too close to call” category, but no state has better standards than the Common Core standard.

When it comes to letter grades only a few states were able to improve their letter grade on ELA standards. Tennessee did the best.

When it comes to letter grades more states were able to improve their letter grade for Math standards. Utah did the best.

When it comes to letter grades only the states of California and Indiana along with the District of Columbia had grades that beat the common core for both math and English.

Each state gets fully looked at in the report.

The article looks at special books created with boys in mind like Captain Underpants.

From the data:

Around 45% of teachers in the state are considering leaving the profession.

Around 40% of teachers moonlight.

The Dallas Morning News also has an article up on this survey.

The Baltimore Sun reports on Congress weighing steps to ease the student loan burden.

The AP reports on Oakland University approving a 5.76% tuition increase.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on high school students that are getting a jump on college by taking summer school classes.

The Sacramento Bee reports on Sacramento-area high school grads that are preping for college success