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May 12, 2009
Fixing [U.S. underperforming schools] is itself a multi-faceted challenge. In some cases, money is the issue. Local financing of schools means that students in rich […]
May 12, 2009
Teacher unions have been under more scrutiny lately, especially the tenure laws that force districts to retain incompetent instructors (see here from the L.A. Times […]
May 11, 2009
I have no loyalty to charter schools, traditional public schools, magnet schools, small school models, publicly funded scholarships (vouchers) or private schools. I have loyalty […]
May 11, 2009
There’s been a fair amount of buzz regarding David Brooks’ column in the New York Times this past Friday. Brooks highlights The Promise Academy, a […]
May 9, 2009
Fallout from school Budget Failures: While about 70% of school budgets passed in New Jersey on April 21st, the ones that failed to gain voter […]
May 7, 2009
LUARC, the Local Unit Alignment Reorganization and Consolidation Commission, is ready to get serious about consolidating “doughnut hole” communities with their surrounding municipalities. The Philadelphia […]