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Charter Schools
New homes for D.C. charter schools
Charters will soon be able to lease as many as sixteen former or soon-to-be-closed public school buildings
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Charter Schools
Top Ten Takeaways: Common Assessments (Part 2)
The top five takeaways from his interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced
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Charter Schools
Education’s Fiscal Cliff, Real or Perceived?
Charter schools: Underfunded after all these years
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Charter Schools
Longing for the Holy Grail
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
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Charter Schools
No longer a boy’s world: Boys and special education
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
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Charter Schools
Losing the school choice lottery and what it means for one family
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
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Charter Schools
Video of "Always Reformed, Always Reforming" event now available
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
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Charter Schools
Religious schools, the ADA, and the Justice Department
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders
Half empty or half full: Superintendents' views on Ohio's education reforms
This report is based on the responses to an online survey conducted in Spring 2013 with 344 school district superintendents in Ohio. The survey covered seven education policies, specifically: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, open enrollment, A-to-F ratings for schools and districts, individualized learning (blended learning and credit flexibility), and school choice (charter schools and vouchers). It also included several questions on general attitudes towards school reform in Ohio and two trend items. Download today to discover the key findings!
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Pandering beats hostage-taking
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
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Charter Schools
By the Company It Keeps: The U.S. Department of Education
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
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Charter Schools
Trashing Success
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
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Charter Schools
Voucher lessons in the Louisiana decision
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
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Charter Schools
Choices and Challenges: Charter School Performance in Perspective
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Our Gadfly readers won’t
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Charter Schools
Louisiana vouchers need more to grow
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
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Charter Schools
Portfolio management in the suburbs
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Coalition of high performing charter schools discusses laws with Senate
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
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Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance
Limitless: Education, The Reynoldsburg Way
The Reynoldsburg City School District, just east of Columbus, is far down the “portfolio management” path – further than probably any suburban school district of its size. This feature article discusses portfolio management and takes readers behind the scenes in Reynoldsburg.
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Charter Schools
Fordham’s Terry Ryan testifies in the Senate Finance Committee with high achieving charter school leaders
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
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Charter Schools
How facility funding fails charter schools
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities
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Charter Schools
The state of charter authorizing
This report is great data on a critically important field
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Charter Schools
Charter boards, know thy duty
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
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Charter Schools
The recovery school district
The most significant governance innovation since charter schools?
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Capacity is something that requires ongoing maintenance and at least an annual critique.
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Have a high performing charter school? Chances are it’s got a savvy board whose membership consists of mission-aligned individuals with diverse professional expertise and experience that is leveraged to advance a strategic and defined vision, and achieve a specific set of goals.