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School Me! is reporting that the takeover plan is starting to get some serious traction: Mayor Villaraigosa made a rough sketch of his schools plan known this morning, announcing that he had reached a compromise with legislators and the teachers unions. The mayor’s office reveals that Sen. Gloria Romero and Speaker Fabian Núñez will author […] Read more »

After passing a corporate tax credit for disadvantaged children in our home base of Arizona earlier this year, we thought we’d had a great run this year in the Grand Canyon State.    But we got signals from the Legislature that more was possible.  So we pushed.  And here’s what we’ve achieved: Democrat Gov. Janet […] Read more »

Interesting article on the growing popularity of Teach for America. It’s the strongest job market in years for new college graduates, with salaries and perks rising accordingly. But one of the country’s hottest recruiters this spring promised low wages, exhausting labor and just a brief break before work begins. Teach for America is surging in […] Read more »

A lot of people are asking questions about this sudden resignation. Baltimore’s schools chief said yesterday that she will resign after steering Maryland’s lowest-performing school system through three years of modest achievement gains amid clashes with the state government that have become an issue in the gubernatorial campaign. Bonnie S. Copeland’s resignation announcement came on […] Read more »

Eduwonk links to this EdWeek report on graduation rates.  Maybe Dan Losen or Joydeep Roy will comment?  We sure hope so! Read more »

One New Hampshire father says the NCLB school transfer option has been terrific: It’s been two years since Bill Chisholm chose to take his son Bobby out of Amherst Street School after he attended kindergarten there. Chisholm said he’s been pleased with the education his son has received at Charlotte Avenue School, where he will […] Read more »

According to this, parents are rising up against Villaraigosa’s proposal: Some L.A. Unified parents rallied outside Bob Hope Airport in Burbank Monday morning to urge Villaraigosa not to involve the state legislature. Tenth-district PTA leader Scott Folsom said he doesn’t want decisions to be made in "the back rooms of Sacramento." At first this story […] Read more »

It’s been just about one week since the South Carolina primaries, and we in the school choice community were hoping that the results would get us one step closer to finally, FINALLY improving school choice opportunities for the families who need it most.  Unfortunately, the results gave us more of a mixed bag rather than […] Read more »

Back in March, we noted a Massachusetts school district that took a much more sane response when faced with an exodus of children due to public school choice: figure out how to improve and keep the kids!  Now we find that the district is walking the talk: Students are opting out of the Pittsfield schools […] Read more »

This sounds pretty cool: Imagine a math and science high school with lab classes conducted by staff from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Or a high school of the arts with access to the stages of the Pasadena Playhouse and the exhibits of the Huntington Library. These and other innovative ideas are included in a new […] Read more »