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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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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
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Charter Schools
In ranking choice, little differences add up to big change
The Brookings Institution's second Education Choice and Competition Index released yesterday
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Charter Schools
Marco Rubio floats a federal tax credit scholarship
Despite its popularity, however, there is a reason that a program like this is controversial: A tax credit scholarship is tantamount to a voucher.
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Charter Schools
Changing One Million Lives
NACSA's call for states to be more proactive in closing failing charter schools and opening great new ones.
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Charter Schools
A call for quality charters
The NACSA's Parker Baxter on charter accountability and the "One Million Lives" campaign
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Charter Schools
Judge decides what “public education” is in Louisiana, and the public loses
According to Judge Timothy Kelley, the state was wrong to fund its new voucher program by the same revenue stream that provides a “minimum foundation” to its public elementary and secondary schools.
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Charter Schools
Think before you write special-education quotas into charter law
CRPE argues a statewide difference in charter and district special-education enrollments is too simplistic of a comparison
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Charter Schools
Tough scrutiny for the D.C. voucher program, but it deserves the attention
By embracing some modest measures of standards and accountability, the D.C. program might set in motion effects that could ripple beyond its boundaries
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Charter Schools
Diverse schools and student nomads
Terry Ryan writes about student nomads, picky parents, and feelings of cognitive dissonance
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Charter Schools
Picky parents, Nomad Mary, and feelings of cognitive dissonance
The different dilemmas facing choosy parents and struggling parents
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Charter Schools
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
And Smarick is excited about the release of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ annual “Market Share” report, which shows the percentage of students in major cities that are educated by charters
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Charter Schools
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Edison Story in Dayton
The trials and tribulations of a Fordham-sponsored charter school.
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Charter Schools
Local taxpayers say yes to charter schools
All politics, and some revenues, are local
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Charter Schools
Of choices, truants, and taxi medallions
Six days after the election, and by a miniscule margin, Washington State became the