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Rocky transitions and civil society
After much dithering, Governor Rick Scott signed legislation expanding eligibility for Florida’s tax-credit scholarship program and creati
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Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What’s Real and What’s Imagined?
One of the received truths of education reform is that a creative, talented school principal can do a lot, whether by embracing technology, changing the way a school is organized, or allocating resources differently. The counter is that true principal autonomy doesn’t exist because of strict limitations by district, state, and federal mandates, union contracts, and such.
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Great Principals at Scale: Creating District Conditions that Enable All Principals to be Effective
Even the soundest of education policies yield little when conditions on the ground block school-level actors from being effective. And the key school-level actor is the principal. So that’s where New Leaders and the Bush Institute fix their joint gaze in this report about replicating great principals at scale.
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Charter Schools
On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope
The Rocketship charter network, founded in San Jose in 2006, has had a growth trajectory worthy of its name: it already operates nine schools, and its goal is to educate 25,000 students by 2017.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-25-14
Lots to cover - third grade reading tests, Straight-A Fund grants, alleged malfeasance, and levy talk among the many news items today.