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Cheers and Jeers: July 29, 2021

The Education Gadfly
7.29.2021

Cheers

  • Greg A. Richmond, a charter-school pioneer and former public school administrator, was chosen to be the superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago. —Chicago Tribune
  • How Denver’s University Prep Charter Schools created a post-pandemic recovery plan and invested federal funds in accelerating students. —The 74
  • “Students at Dayton Leadership Academies are getting a leg up on math and reading this summer.” —Teach for America

Jeers

  • There’s an unsettling parallel between China’s recent crackdown on for-profit education and the aims of House Democrats’ bill. —Jay P. Greene’s Blog
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