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Walk, run, or gallop to a school near you

11.3.2010
  • Fordham’s hometowns of D.C. and Dayton both made NACSA’s 2010 list of the top ten school districts served by charters. In D.C., 38 percent of students attend charters; in Dayton, 29 percent.
  • Arne Duncan heads across the pond this week. Among his stops is a meeting with British Education Secretary Michael Gove. Gove recently launched his “free schools” initiative, modeled after the charter movement in the U.S. Charter-style schooling may not be new to Blighty, but Gove’s agenda is still pretty ambitious.
  • Competition! American RadioWorks now has its own education reform podcast. Expect it on Fridays.
  • The Supreme Court is set to determine the constitutionality of tax credits for religious schools. And the line just keeps getting blurrier…
  • Boston shows itself less equine-friendly than Philadelphia.
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