The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a piece about how Nevada’s Clark County School District had created a new marketing position to sell the district’s schools to parents and slow the exodus of student to charter schools.

If he truly wants to mend fences with the city’s high-performing charter schools and their leaders, he can start by granting long-languishing space requests and also end an injustice that NY1 exposed this week...

“Most [charter school teachers] come to this work to provide underserved children with a better shot at educational success, but now they’re increasingly branded as corporate stooges selling out public education by critics who challenge charter schools’ right to exist.”

“A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries…”

I usually like this term. It means we might as well bend some rules, if the need justifies it, and normally, this term is associated with good deeds. But, Secretary Arne Duncan’s attempt to start creatively non-complying with NCLB may not be about good deeds, as much as he suggests it is. Throughout the weekend,…

This morning Robert Teegarden brought Mike Antonucci's first dispatch from the AFT conference in Boston to my attention.  Our thoughts on Resolution 52, submitted by the Chicago Teachers Union, are below the fold. 

Whoa:As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stumped across Los Angeles on Thursday to drum up support for his proposed takeover of the public schools, Supt. Roy Romer unleashed a stinging rebuke of the mayor and a forceful defense of the embattled school district. Romer lashed out at Villaraigosa, challenging the frequent attacks the mayor has leveled against…

It seems striking that a so-called national study comes out debunking the superiority of private schools to union schools within days that the Administration introduces a voucher-type remedy to that same inferiority.  Hmmmm.  Coincidence?  Probably.  Intended?  Maybe.  But flawed?  Absolutely.  Read the cautions by the authors.  Read their warnings.  Were any of those caveats posted…

Based on these remarks, it appears President Bush is going to put quite a bit of weight behind the federal school choice bill:I strongly believe that parental involvement is important for our school systems.And I strongly believe a parent knows what's best for his or her child.That's what I believe.And therefore, when we find schools…

How can this be?Charter schools in the city are vastly outperforming public schools in their neighborhoods, according to a bombshell state report obtained by The Post. The just-released study by state Education Department found students in 11 of 16 city charter schools outscored kids in nearby public schools on the state's fourth-grade English and math…