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February 28, 2014
“It’s actually a little bit difficult to talk about because I’m very resentful,” says Mari Mejor, who met with me at a Portland coffee shop to talk about her experiences at Trillium Charter School, which she attended the first two years after it opened.
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February 25, 2014
About 4,000 North Carolina families must wait for the courts to untangle a legal challenge involving the state’s voucher program before they’ll know what schools their children can attend next year.
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February 21, 2014
The National Council on Teacher Quality -- which advocates reforming how teachers are evaluated -- gave Maryland a D+ for teacher effectiveness in a recent report, a grade that stands in stark contrast to other ratings of the state’s schools.
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February 11, 2014
A robust partisan divide in Washington over the role of the federal government in education reform is keeping recent proposals to tweak the American education system on the sidelines, raising the question: will Congress take action or just perpetuate a never-ending debate on the issue?
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February 7, 2014
In Arizona, parents may send their children to schools outside the boundaries of their neighborhood and even out of the districts in which they reside.
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February 3, 2014
Tyler O’Neil, The Christian Post WASHINGTON – Education experts proposed five innovative ideas for reforming K-12 education to free up the system for dynamic growth through the small government “School Choice” movement. One scholar claimed the current system which focuses on nebulous “quality” enables government bureaucrats to misuse parents and students. “Forget about ‘quality’ — all […]
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January 31, 2014
The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) applauds the Center for Education Reform (CER) for the release of their Survey of America's Charter Schools.
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January 31, 2014
It's National School Choice Week, and several organizations have released reports examining the state of the country's charter schools. Louisiana remains a leader in the charter school movement, placing third in the National Association of Public Charter Schools' annual charter law ranking.
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January 29, 2014
Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released its rankings and evaluations of state charter-school laws for 2014, and the top-10 list looks very much like the rankings the group released last year—only one jurisdiction on that list, the District of Columbia, is new (D.C. moved up from 17 to 10 […]
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January 27, 2014
For 40 years, Catholic schools have been celebrating National Catholic Schools Week, for many years starting the last Sunday in January.
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