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Charter Schools
Kids making apps and superintendents talking about details
News headlines from the week
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Charter Schools
One foundation’s commitment to school choice pays off
No single philanthropic organization has put more effort and money into the advancement and improvement of school choice than the Walton Family Foundation
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Charter Schools
The implication of CREDO's research: Strong charter authorizing is vital
Growing quality charter schools requires strong charter school authorizers
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Charter Schools
Smart ideas for school choice
The sobering reality is that, even with burgeoning charter and voucher movements, school choice is largely exercised by families able to afford private school tuition or who move to neighborhoods because of their schools
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Charter Schools
Of helicopter parents, schools, and governments
Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat who is regarded as perhaps the most powerful lawmaker in U.S. education policy, will not seek re-election in 2014.
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Charter Schools
Ohio's charter law remains a laggard
Ohio’s charter law remains mediocre despite numerous reform efforts over the last decade. According to the latest “Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of the State Charter School Laws” produced by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) the Buckeye State’s charter school law ranks 27 out of 43 states and the District of Columbia.
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Charter Schools
School choice friends, let go your testing fears!
In their report, School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring?, researchers David Stuit and Sy Doan find little evidence that policymakers should avoid testing requirements for fear that private schools will avoid voucher and tax credit scholarship programs altogether
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Charter Schools
A school where it's cool to be smart
There is no harder job than running a successful school building for high-poverty students; nor a more important job. Yet, there are school leaders across the state and the nation who do it day-in and day-out, and too few get recognized for their great work.
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Charter Schools
Toss the bad apples, but not the barrel
For low-performing charters, yes, we need tough charter closure laws. But let’s not overlook great charters either
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Charter Schools
The right decision from Ball State
Indiana’s Ball State University has delivered on its pledge to end contracts with the worst-performing charter schools in its portfolio, and its action will strengthen the charter movement
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Charter Schools
Nurturing a school where it's cool to be smart: Q&A with DECA's Judy Hennessey
Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) thrives and its school leader plays a major role
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Charter Schools
Charters didn't seek exemption from new restraint rule
Fordham’s Terry Ryan talks on the record about charters and seclusion rooms
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Charter Schools
Toss the bad apples, but not the barrel
For low-performing charters, yes, we need tough charter closure laws. But let’s not overlook great charters either
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Charter Schools
The threat of the parent trigger and the change it begets
There is a reason why, after months of resistance, the Adelanto School Board this week voted unanimously to adopt the parent-triggered charter conversion of Desert Trails Elementary: It’s not the same board
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Charter Schools
Bold reforms in Cleveland and Columbus need new talent to fly high
How school leaders are working to bring talent into school districts
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Reforms, shots, and brawls
Achieve released the second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards this week.
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Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education
Needles in a Haystack
Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.
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Charter Schools
Bold reforms in Cleveland and Columbus need new talent to fly high
How school leaders are working to bring talent into school districts
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Healthy skepticism
In the biggest non-surprise of 2012, the U.S.
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Charter Schools
How good charter school outcomes in Indiana could have been better
The findings would have been better if not for the performance of schools overseen by one authorizer—Ball State University
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cause for hope
This week, Student Achievement Partners—the group co-founded by Common Core architects David Coleman and Jason Zimba—announced a partnership with the NEA and AFT to develop and disseminate Core-aligned curriculum at no cost to teachers, thanks to a three
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Charter Schools
A D.C. panel comes to a sensible conclusion for charter schools
D.C. charter schools, the task force decided, should remain open to all comers in the city, but charters that move into closed district schools should voluntarily give admissions preference to children who live nearby
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Standards
2011-12 Ohio Report Card Analysis
Our annual analysis of school performance in our home state's major urban areas, plus a projection of proficiency rates when the PARCC exams arrive in 2014-15.
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Charter Schools
Should we care how much money charter school leaders make?
Executive compensation must be transparent and carefully considered.
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Charter Schools
Should we care how much money charter school leaders make?
Highly effective superintendents and charter school operators deserve to be paid well, but 'how much is too much’ is a question school boards have to grapple with as they also have to help make the case for school levies every couple of years
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Charter Schools
On voucher transparency, Rick Scott is right
Governor Rick Scott has garnered attention for suggesting that all schools receiving public funding, including private schools accepting voucher-bearing students, be held to Common Core standards
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Charter Schools
The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012
New Orleans sets the pace