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January 20, 2015
State Sen. Dick Brewbaker, a Republican from Montgomery who has advocated for school reforms for years, said he is working with others to revise a charter school proposal in preparation for the legislative session.
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January 13, 2015
John Stossel recently appeared on the Fox Business channel in an Uncle Sam suit, throwing money out of a wheelbarrow to illustrate the absurdity of ObamaCare’s risk corridors.
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January 13, 2015
Today’s speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.
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January 7, 2015
At least 40 conservative groups in Indiana have signed on to an agenda for education reform that will be submitted to the state’s lawmakers Tuesday.
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December 31, 2014
If you’re like many modern parents, your own parents’ school choices were simple: kids walked to the local public school or attended the town’s religious school.
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December 29, 2014
Kaycee Eckhardt, a former charter school teacher in New Orleans, has decidedly mixed feelings about teachers unions.
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December 15, 2014
Heather Kays of the The Heartland Institute discusses the status of the charter school movement with Kara Kerwin, president of the Center for Education Reform.
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December 15, 2014
There’s a reasonable tendency among Americans to view the education of their kids as an exclusively local issue and distinct to their communities.
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December 5, 2014
Lauren LeDuff was a junior at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city in August of 2005.
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December 5, 2014
The challenges of the Middleburg Community Charter School, described in the Dec. 2 Metro article “Charter school caught in local-state muddle,” are typical of a charter-school law that imposes non-performance inputs that have no impact on student achievement, such as a principal’s license that demonstrates process accomplishment instead of experience and success.
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