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Durham leaders are taking a stand against a new charter high school planned for the Research Triangle Park area, saying it will siphon money from traditional public schools and lead to further racial segregation. The Durham school board has sent a strongly worded resolution to the State Board of Education opposing Research Triangle High School,…
NAEP Math Scores 2009
Highlights from 2009 NAEP Math Results for 4th and 8th grade students
North Carolina will offer a new look Friday at how teachers are rated in all public schools. The state will post school-by-school numbers on teacher evaluation results in five categories, which range from subject knowledge to ability to deal with diversity. The report does not spell out how individual teachers rated. The new numbers don’t…
Tennis great Andre Agassi and officials of a California real estate company created an unusual joint venture last year to help successful charter schools find affordable and sustainable buildings. On Tuesday, they will celebrate their first charter-school investment: KIPP Philadelphia Elementary Academy at 2409 W. Westmoreland St. in North Philadelphia's Tioga section. "KIPP is the…
For more than a year, the Legislature has been prodding and poking at a bill that would provide a lifeline to poor students in failing districts by giving them a voucher to attend private schools. Enough. This is a small pilot program that will affect about 5,000 students in a public school system of nearly…
Our community is blessed with many fine educators in our public school system. They deserve our respect, appreciation and support. That is why I believe our present educational system has to change. The model currently in place, like so many other aspects of our government, is unsustainable. Failing to face hard realities diminishes the sacrificial…
The District unveiled its first rankings of public charter schools Tuesday, part of a new rating system that offers parents a broader assessment of school progress than annual standardized test results. The new performance evaluation shows how test scores of students have grown over the last year, relative to their academic peers across the city.…
Armed with bundles of white roses -- assembled to represent what they say are incidents of violence in the state's 143 lowest-performing schools every 17 minutes -- lawmakers and supporters urged that a measure to allow those students to attend alternative institutions be passed before the end of the year. That was the latest argument…