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School choice advocates lobby Legislature to support bill
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Comparing some poorly performing Pennsylvania schools to "combat zones," school choice advocates this morning added another argument to their battle cry. Armed with bouquets of white roses -- assembled to represent what they say are incidents of
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Diocese letter pushed principals to promote vouchers
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Bowes, assistant superintendent for policy and development in the diocese, wrote in October to Catholic school principals. It calls for them to be relentless in promoting school choice, in part by telling parents who had received financial aid that
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No outside groups apply to run area LAUSD schools up for bid
Torrance :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The school district on Monday released a list of applicants to run 25 new and academically troubled campuses that are a part of the third iteration of the district's controversial Public School Choice process...The Local District 8 office applied, as
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SchoolBook: Families That Most Need Help of Guidance Counselors Often Don't Get It
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Many families of New York City 8th graders spend the entire fall consumed by the process of picking a high school for their child. Their lives focus on tasks ranging from online research, attendance at high school fairs and open houses, auditions and
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School choice expanded dramatically in 2011
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Special to The Examiner Over the last decade, the expansion of school voucher programs which let some students use taxpayer dollars to pay tuition at private schools of their choice slowed considerably. Losses in statewide referenda and in state
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Ravitch: Billionaires (and millionaires) for education reform
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling The Death and Life of the Great American School System , an important critique of the
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Progressives Find Religion on LAUSD Reform
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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They were members of the teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, and they were firmly in control of the march. "Hell no, we're not fools, we don't want no charter schools!" they chanted at one point. The peculiar thing was that the real
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GCU in talks to offer Central Regional students college credits
Lakewood :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Central Regional School District was one of six districts in Ocean County approved in April for participation in the states Interdistrict School Choice Program. The choice program allows students to go to a school outside their resident district if
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For parents, school choice is easier than ballot initiatives
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Special to The Examiner There's a grass-roots parent revolt surging in California. Parents statewide and at the local level are pushing ballot measures to overturn unpopular government education policies. While the initiative process may be Democracy
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Study Shows School Choice Improves College Achievement Gap
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | over 1 year ago
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A study funded by the Department of Education found that school choice programs have a positive impact on student achievement in college, the Daily Caller reports. On Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper written
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