State Involvement in School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind in the 2004-2005 School Year
Rebecca Wolf DiBiaseEducation Commission of the StatesSeptember 2005
Rebecca Wolf DiBiaseEducation Commission of the StatesSeptember 2005
U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service2005
Lance T. Izumi and Xiaochin Claire YanPacific Research Institute
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The Gates foundation has learned some lessons - and Seattle's public schools are poorer for the experience. In 2000, the foundation made a series of high-profile, five-year, multi-million-dollar gifts to districts deemed capable of bringing about significant change in their schools. Seattle received $26 million at the time, but it most likely won't be receiving any more.
Question: If you're the superintendent of a district labeled "in need of improvement" under NCLB, are you allowed to offer federally funded tutoring directly to students? Answer: No—unless, of course, your name is Arne Duncan and you run the Chicago Public Schools. Then the answer is yes.
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I'm a regular reader of the Education Gadfly and Checker's columns and would like to clarify a statement made three weeks ago concerning Edison Schools. In your editorial announcing Dick Carpenter's
Although Halloween is still a few days away, the witching hour arrived early in some American classrooms.