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December 29, 2008
In “The Monopolist Turns Free-Marketer,” Gregg Edwards describes the new legislation that establishes a program for low-income kids in seven failing urban school districts to […]
December 19, 2008
Seasons greetings to all — and a note that blogging will be extremely light over the next week. But we’ll be back shortly, fully refreshed […]
December 19, 2008
The DOE has just issued this press release trumpeting an increase in the number of schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress based on last spring’s […]
December 18, 2008
There’s a great piece in the New York Times today by Peter Applebome that profiles a seventy-year-old retired T.V. journalist who haunts school board meetings […]
December 18, 2008
The directive from the DOE to establish public preschools for all economically-disadvantaged 3-5 year-olds has hit a wall: while school districts are still required to […]
December 18, 2008
… that the bill to move school board elections to November has stalled in the Senate and currently resides somewhere in legislative purgatory. Meanwhile, the […]