By Martha Woodall Philadelphia Inquirer January 24, 2012 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.…

Editorial The Star-Ledger January 1, 2012 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…

by Steve Viars Journal & Courier December 6, 2011 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…

by Bill Turque Washington Post December 6, 2011 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,…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 7, 2011 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.…

by Ann Richardson Ocean City Gazette December 6, 2011 The Ocean City School District is a hot commodity. More than 85 students from across the region applied for the 39 spots in Ocean City’s popular school choice program this year. The deadline to apply was Dec. 1. “We were getting applications on the last day,”…

Despite the popularity of charter schools and increased necessity of new learning options, a group of parents who want to start an online charter school are under attack by their local school board, who is leading a war that includes lies, distortions and hostile actions. Read more.

Opinion By Jeffrey Piccola The Intelligencer December 4, 2011 Pennsylvania has a simple choice to make. We can embrace change and welcome educational reform, or we can choose to satisfy ourselves with the tired old policies of the past that, by any reasonable standard of measure, have failed our children. In the last decade, we…

Despite the popularity of charter schools and increased necessity of new learning options, a group of parents who want to start an online charter school are under attack by their local school board, who is leading a war that includes lies, distortions and hostile actions. Read more.

Supporters of a bill to give scholarships to tens of thousands of students in failing public schools to attend private and parochial schools rallied on the Statehouse steps, urging legislators to take action.