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- Commentary: The Moral Logic of School Choice
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Jun 26, 7:49 AM, Wall Street Journal:
Proponents of school choice offer many arguments for charter authorizations, vouchers and education tax credits. For parents, the reasons are often straightforward. Some cite better discipline, dress codes and an emphasis on teaching their >
- Puerto Rico’s Schools Are in Tumult, and Not Just Because of Hurricane Maria
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Jun 1, 7:21 AM, New York Times:
The unrest in Puerto Rico’s educational system — where only 10 percent of seventh, eighth and 11th graders achieved proficiency in a standardized math test last year — extends beyond the loss of schools. In March, the governor signed a law >
- Opinion: Charter schools are using innovation to help kids with special needs
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May 25, 7:32 AM, Washington Examiner:
This month, as many Americans celebrated National Charter School Week, charter school opponents continued to claim that charter schools discriminate against students with special needs. Yet in fact, all across the country there are charter >
- Opinion: A Plea for a Fact-Based Debate About Charter Schools
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Jul 23, 7:24 AM, New York Times:
There are two high-profile camps on education reform. Staunch defenders — who tend to be conservative — support not only charter schools but virtually all school choice, including vouchers for private schools. They see market competition >
- Tulane lands $10 million federal grant to study school reform across the U.S.
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Jul 23, 7:22 AM, The Advocate:
The five-year grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, will fund research on how voucher programs, charter schools and other choice programs in various cities can better serve disadvantaged >
- Trump promotes job training as employers search for workers
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Jul 20, 7:49 AM, Associated Press:
The White House said the “Pledge to America’s Workers” would provide at least 3.8 million new career opportunities for students and workers over the next five years, including apprenticeships, work-based learning and continuing >
- Behind the campaign to get teachers to leave their unions
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Jul 20, 7:47 AM, WHYY:
Last month, the Supreme Court in Janus v. AFCSME dealt a major blow to public sector unions. The court ruled that these unions cannot collect money, known as agency fees, from nonmembers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements. >
- Jim Waters: Charter opponents don’t have New Orleans to kick around
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Jul 19, 7:27 AM, State-Journal:
Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, state education leaders in Louisiana decided to take over and rebuild the shattered New Orleans public school infrastructure using charter schools, which by their very nature are more >
- Opinion: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (unwittingly) flirts with school choice
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Jul 19, 7:25 AM, Washington Examiner:
While Ocasio-Cortez answers every question with more government, on education at least, she correctly identifies the problem. In fact, she identifies with it personally, telling voters again and again that she came from “a place where >
- The Private-School Persuasion of the Supreme Court
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Jul 18, 6:56 AM, The Atlantic:
Should Brett Kavanaugh get confirmed as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, five of the Court’s nine sitting justices will share an experience that is foreign to most Americans: that of attending one of the nation’s private high >
- Senate confirms Los Angeles reform advocate Jim Blew in narrow vote, rounding out Ed Dept’s K-12 team
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Jul 18, 6:53 AM, LA School Report:
The Senate voted narrowly Tuesday to confirm Jim Blew, a longtime education reform advocate, to be an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, rounding out the department’s K-12 team.
- Editorial: Here we go again
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Jul 20, 4:41 AM, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
With a number of public schools failing their charges, our betters have decided to allow kids to flee the worst ones by establishing the Arkansas School Choice Act. Under that current law, a family can opt out of the local school and go to >
- Bevin Expands Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship
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Jul 13, 5:31 AM, West Kentucky Star :
The scholarship will now be available for high school students for dual credit career and technical education courses in pathways in Kentucky's top five high-demand sectors leading to industry-recognized certifications.
- Why nearly 1,000 families are clamoring to get into Spokane's charter schools
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Jul 6, 5:21 AM, Pacific Northwest Inlander:
Increasingly, families across the area are starting to agree. Between Spokane's two charter school systems — Spokane International Academy and PRIDE schools — the waitlist for students trying to get in stands at about 900. Nearly 600 are >
- Libraries, LinkedIn agreement to offer online courses free
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Jul 23, 7:14 AM, Associated Press:
Ohio residents with valid library cards will have access to thousands of online courses they can take for free under an expansion of the state’s online library learning program.
- Scott Walker leans into 'education governor' message as opponents scoff
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Jul 23, 7:09 AM, Capital Times:
Over the last month, his campaign has released two television ads featuring teachers praising his education record as he seeks a third term. "I’m being aggressive on this," Walker said in an interview last month. "We’re proclaiming proudly >
- More central control is coming to CMS schools: What it means for kids, teachers.
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Jul 23, 6:52 AM, Charlotte Observer:
Over the years CMS leaders have struggled to strike a balance between the freedom to let educators be creative and the control that ensures basic standards are being met.
- Experts offer tips to strengthen New Mexico charter school law
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Jul 23, 6:50 AM, Santa Fe New Mexican:
New Mexico’s laws for authorizing and overseeing charter schools are solid but could benefit from some additional measures, according to recent National Alliance for Public Charter Schools data.
- Report: Charter school demand skyrockets in San Antonio
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Jul 23, 6:35 AM, KABB:
A new report by Families Empowered says nearly 40,000 families applied to three of San Antonio's charter school networks.
- Doctor inspires a new way to train teachers — and a new kind of school
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Jul 23, 6:33 AM, Detroit Free Press:
In its place, they’re creating a new method — one based on the way doctors are trained — that will extend teacher training through their first three years on the job, supporting them as they take on the daunting responsibility of educating >
- Indianapolis Public Schools plan to save teachers, raise pay could be in trouble
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Jul 23, 6:13 AM, Indianapolis Star:
A rift with the Broad Ripple community over the fate of the recently-closed Broad Ripple High School also has some residents in that neighborhood questioning if the district deserves more tax dollars. Colleen Fanning, a City-County Council >
- Virtual school opening brick-and-mortar office in Wilkes-Barre
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Jul 23, 6:04 AM, Wilkes Barre Times-Leader:
Hayden is chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, and the space next door to R/C Wilkes-Barre Movies 14 is being set up as the virtual school’s ninth regional office. “Our goal is to have an office within a >
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- Virtual school opening brick-and-mortar office in Wilkes-Barre
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Jul 23, 6:04 AM, Wilkes Barre Times-Leader:
Hayden is chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, and the space next door to R/C Wilkes-Barre Movies 14 is being set up as the virtual school’s ninth regional office. “Our goal is to have an office within a >
- Newark Public Schools wants more of its graduates to finish college. KIPP charter network wants to help.
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Jul 20, 6:07 AM, Chalkbeat :
A group of Newark Public Schools guidance counselors will travel to Texas next week to learn how to help high school students pick the right college. KIPP, the national charter school network, will lead the training.
- Opinion: Double standard in measuring performance of Philly public schools
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Jul 20, 6:02 AM, WHYY:
We should identify and support good schools; and we should identify and fix — or close — bad schools. And there’s the problem. In promulgating the new Philadelphia Charter School Performance Framework to measure school quality, the school >
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- Libraries, LinkedIn agreement to offer online courses free
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Jul 23, 7:14 AM, Associated Press:
Ohio residents with valid library cards will have access to thousands of online courses they can take for free under an expansion of the state’s online library learning program.
- Scott Walker leans into 'education governor' message as opponents scoff
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Jul 23, 7:09 AM, Capital Times:
Over the last month, his campaign has released two television ads featuring teachers praising his education record as he seeks a third term. "I’m being aggressive on this," Walker said in an interview last month. "We’re proclaiming proudly >
- Doctor inspires a new way to train teachers — and a new kind of school
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Jul 23, 6:33 AM, Detroit Free Press:
In its place, they’re creating a new method — one based on the way doctors are trained — that will extend teacher training through their first three years on the job, supporting them as they take on the daunting responsibility of educating >
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- More central control is coming to CMS schools: What it means for kids, teachers.
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Jul 23, 6:52 AM, Charlotte Observer:
Over the years CMS leaders have struggled to strike a balance between the freedom to let educators be creative and the control that ensures basic standards are being met.
- Report: Charter school demand skyrockets in San Antonio
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Jul 23, 6:35 AM, KABB:
A new report by Families Empowered says nearly 40,000 families applied to three of San Antonio's charter school networks.
- District hopes students will stick with Palm Terrace Elementary after third D from state Previous HIDE CAPTION Principal Tucker Harris trades fist bumps and high fives for a job well done at an event near the end of the last school year. Despite a t
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Jul 23, 5:28 AM, Daytona Beach News-Journal:
The marquee on the corner of Palm Terrace Elementary School’s Daytona Beach campus proudly proclaims a new message to passersby after the release of school grades last month: “D’s don’t define us."
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- Experts offer tips to strengthen New Mexico charter school law
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Jul 23, 6:50 AM, Santa Fe New Mexican:
New Mexico’s laws for authorizing and overseeing charter schools are solid but could benefit from some additional measures, according to recent National Alliance for Public Charter Schools data.
- Latino teachers, principals extremely rare in Utah schools
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Jul 23, 5:57 AM, Daily Herald:
Latinos are the largest racial minority group of students in Utah and make up about 17 percent of statewide enrollment in K-12 education, while Latino educators made up 2.45 percent of the 37,326 active educators in public schools during >
- New Mexico loses education lawsuit
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Jul 23, 5:49 AM, Albuquerque Journal:
New Mexico is violating the constitutional rights of at-risk students by failing to provide them with a sufficient education, a state judge ruled Friday in a blistering, landmark decision.
- Editorial: Here we go again
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Jul 20, 4:41 AM, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
With a number of public schools failing their charges, our betters have decided to allow kids to flee the worst ones by establishing the Arkansas School Choice Act. Under that current law, a family can opt out of the local school and go to >
- Why nearly 1,000 families are clamoring to get into Spokane's charter schools
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Jul 6, 5:21 AM, Pacific Northwest Inlander:
Increasingly, families across the area are starting to agree. Between Spokane's two charter school systems — Spokane International Academy and PRIDE schools — the waitlist for students trying to get in stands at about 900. Nearly 600 are >
- Charter schools to see funding bump
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Jul 5, 6:08 AM, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:
The law directs school districts to either share 95 percent of their mill levy revenue with charter schools — with five percent reserved for administrative costs — or develop a plan for sharing the money based on what the mill levy funding >
- More central control is coming to CMS schools: What it means for kids, teachers.
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Jul 23, 6:52 AM, Charlotte Observer:
Over the years CMS leaders have struggled to strike a balance between the freedom to let educators be creative and the control that ensures basic standards are being met.
- Report: Charter school demand skyrockets in San Antonio
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Jul 23, 6:35 AM, KABB:
A new report by Families Empowered says nearly 40,000 families applied to three of San Antonio's charter school networks.
- Indianapolis Public Schools plan to save teachers, raise pay could be in trouble
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Jul 23, 6:13 AM, Indianapolis Star:
A rift with the Broad Ripple community over the fate of the recently-closed Broad Ripple High School also has some residents in that neighborhood questioning if the district deserves more tax dollars. Colleen Fanning, a City-County Council >
- Virtual school opening brick-and-mortar office in Wilkes-Barre
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Jul 23, 6:04 AM, Wilkes Barre Times-Leader:
Hayden is chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, and the space next door to R/C Wilkes-Barre Movies 14 is being set up as the virtual school’s ninth regional office. “Our goal is to have an office within a >
- District hopes students will stick with Palm Terrace Elementary after third D from state Previous HIDE CAPTION Principal Tucker Harris trades fist bumps and high fives for a job well done at an event near the end of the last school year. Despite a t
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Jul 23, 5:28 AM, Daytona Beach News-Journal:
The marquee on the corner of Palm Terrace Elementary School’s Daytona Beach campus proudly proclaims a new message to passersby after the release of school grades last month: “D’s don’t define us."
- Column: Charters don’t need specific piece of special tax
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Jul 23, 5:23 AM, Palm Beach Post:
At Wednesday’s lengthy, jam-packed meeting, board members said that they did not want to distribute more taxpayer dollars to charters. Why? Because they couldn’t guarantee — read that, force — charter schools to spend the money as >
- Editorial: Equity in school improvement spending is a must for CPS
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Jul 23, 5:00 AM, Chicago Sun-Times:
Rose and other parents who criticized the spending plan are rightly suspicious. Schools on the South and West sides were slated to get fewer capital dollars in 2019 than North Side schools, according to a WBEZ report. The district also >
- Odyssey Charter School board struggles to cope after president Dimitrios Dandolos steps down
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Jul 20, 7:43 AM, Delaware News Journal:
Odyssey Charter School parents and teachers have been packing board meetings this summer to question the hiring of a new co-administrator, the convening of committee meetings with little public notice and the resignation of a board >
- Editorial: Here we go again
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Jul 20, 4:41 AM, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
With a number of public schools failing their charges, our betters have decided to allow kids to flee the worst ones by establishing the Arkansas School Choice Act. Under that current law, a family can opt out of the local school and go to >
- Bevin Expands Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship
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Jul 13, 5:31 AM, West Kentucky Star :
The scholarship will now be available for high school students for dual credit career and technical education courses in pathways in Kentucky's top five high-demand sectors leading to industry-recognized certifications.
- Why nearly 1,000 families are clamoring to get into Spokane's charter schools
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Jul 6, 5:21 AM, Pacific Northwest Inlander:
Increasingly, families across the area are starting to agree. Between Spokane's two charter school systems — Spokane International Academy and PRIDE schools — the waitlist for students trying to get in stands at about 900. Nearly 600 are >
- Opinion: A Plea for a Fact-Based Debate About Charter Schools
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Jul 23, 7:24 AM, New York Times:
There are two high-profile camps on education reform. Staunch defenders — who tend to be conservative — support not only charter schools but virtually all school choice, including vouchers for private schools. They see market competition >
- Tulane lands $10 million federal grant to study school reform across the U.S.
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Jul 23, 7:22 AM, The Advocate:
The five-year grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, will fund research on how voucher programs, charter schools and other choice programs in various cities can better serve disadvantaged >
- Libraries, LinkedIn agreement to offer online courses free
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Jul 23, 7:14 AM, Associated Press:
Ohio residents with valid library cards will have access to thousands of online courses they can take for free under an expansion of the state’s online library learning program.
- Scott Walker leans into 'education governor' message as opponents scoff
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Jul 23, 7:09 AM, Capital Times:
Over the last month, his campaign has released two television ads featuring teachers praising his education record as he seeks a third term. "I’m being aggressive on this," Walker said in an interview last month. "We’re proclaiming proudly >
- More central control is coming to CMS schools: What it means for kids, teachers.
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Jul 23, 6:52 AM, Charlotte Observer:
Over the years CMS leaders have struggled to strike a balance between the freedom to let educators be creative and the control that ensures basic standards are being met.
- Experts offer tips to strengthen New Mexico charter school law
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Jul 23, 6:50 AM, Santa Fe New Mexican:
New Mexico’s laws for authorizing and overseeing charter schools are solid but could benefit from some additional measures, according to recent National Alliance for Public Charter Schools data.
- Report: Charter school demand skyrockets in San Antonio
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Jul 23, 6:35 AM, KABB:
A new report by Families Empowered says nearly 40,000 families applied to three of San Antonio's charter school networks.
- Doctor inspires a new way to train teachers — and a new kind of school
-
Jul 23, 6:33 AM, Detroit Free Press:
In its place, they’re creating a new method — one based on the way doctors are trained — that will extend teacher training through their first three years on the job, supporting them as they take on the daunting responsibility of educating >
- Editorial: Here we go again
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Jul 20, 4:41 AM, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
With a number of public schools failing their charges, our betters have decided to allow kids to flee the worst ones by establishing the Arkansas School Choice Act. Under that current law, a family can opt out of the local school and go to >
- Bevin Expands Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship
-
Jul 13, 5:31 AM, West Kentucky Star :
The scholarship will now be available for high school students for dual credit career and technical education courses in pathways in Kentucky's top five high-demand sectors leading to industry-recognized certifications.
- Why nearly 1,000 families are clamoring to get into Spokane's charter schools
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Jul 6, 5:21 AM, Pacific Northwest Inlander:
Increasingly, families across the area are starting to agree. Between Spokane's two charter school systems — Spokane International Academy and PRIDE schools — the waitlist for students trying to get in stands at about 900. Nearly 600 are >
- Opinion: A Plea for a Fact-Based Debate About Charter Schools
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Jul 23, 7:24 AM, New York Times:
There are two high-profile camps on education reform. Staunch defenders — who tend to be conservative — support not only charter schools but virtually all school choice, including vouchers for private schools. They see market competition >
- Tulane lands $10 million federal grant to study school reform across the U.S.
-
Jul 23, 7:22 AM, The Advocate:
The five-year grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, will fund research on how voucher programs, charter schools and other choice programs in various cities can better serve disadvantaged >
- Libraries, LinkedIn agreement to offer online courses free
-
Jul 23, 7:14 AM, Associated Press:
Ohio residents with valid library cards will have access to thousands of online courses they can take for free under an expansion of the state’s online library learning program.
- Scott Walker leans into 'education governor' message as opponents scoff
-
Jul 23, 7:09 AM, Capital Times:
Over the last month, his campaign has released two television ads featuring teachers praising his education record as he seeks a third term. "I’m being aggressive on this," Walker said in an interview last month. "We’re proclaiming proudly >
- More central control is coming to CMS schools: What it means for kids, teachers.
-
Jul 23, 6:52 AM, Charlotte Observer:
Over the years CMS leaders have struggled to strike a balance between the freedom to let educators be creative and the control that ensures basic standards are being met.
- Experts offer tips to strengthen New Mexico charter school law
-
Jul 23, 6:50 AM, Santa Fe New Mexican:
New Mexico’s laws for authorizing and overseeing charter schools are solid but could benefit from some additional measures, according to recent National Alliance for Public Charter Schools data.
- Report: Charter school demand skyrockets in San Antonio
-
Jul 23, 6:35 AM, KABB:
A new report by Families Empowered says nearly 40,000 families applied to three of San Antonio's charter school networks.
- Doctor inspires a new way to train teachers — and a new kind of school
-
Jul 23, 6:33 AM, Detroit Free Press:
In its place, they’re creating a new method — one based on the way doctors are trained — that will extend teacher training through their first three years on the job, supporting them as they take on the daunting responsibility of educating >