Every weekday I’m reading and sharing the top headlines with you. Today: 226 D.C. teachers are fired for not performing up to new evaluation standards, 600 Chicago educators are laid off due to budget cuts and California’s Oakland school district attempts to replicate a “community school” model that offers health and social services to its students.

• D.C.’s education chancellor fired 226 teachers who didn’t make the cut under a new evaluation system that bases teacher effectiveness on standardized test scores, The Washington Post reported today.

• About 600 Chicago Public Schools educators (400 teachers and 200 support staff) received layoff notices this week, The Chicago Sun-Times reported today. The teachers union filed a lawsuit this summer to block the increased class sizes that would result from the layoffs.

• California’s Oakland Unified School District is looking at replicating a successful school model that includes health and social services for students, as well as programs to engage parents in the schooling process, The New York Times reported yesterday.

• The interest in developing teacher evaluation programs like the one in D.C. is spreading nationwide — most recently to Virginia, The Associated Press reported today.

• That same education chancellor in D.C., Michelle Rhee, is considering offering vouchers to special ed students. EducationNext went behind the headline on this one today to explain how school voucher programs work.

• Faculty at in the University of Missouri System are boldly going where few professors have gone before, The Associated Press reported today: into the world of cutting-edge technology, with hybrid online and face-to-face classes. And so far, the results are good. Student participation and performance are up.

• The Obama administration released its proposed regulations that would cut off federal aid to for-profit colleges if their students don’t earn enough money to repay their student loans, The New York Times reported today.

• U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is holding a radio town hall meeting with a studio audience of teachers next Thursday, July 29 on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s public affairs channel.

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