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Urban Assembly New York Harbor School’s new campus on Governors Island brings kids right to water
Going Coastal —
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They’re ready to dive in.A maritime-themed public high school named for New York Harbor will finally reach its shores next fall when the school opens its doors on Governors Island.After spending six years landlocked in the heart of Brooklyn, the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School will get a permanent home five ...1 day ago -
LA Times Hastens Toward the Light
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 742
With print media players disappearing faster than mosasaurs in the late Cretaceous, one would expect the last papers standing to be extra careful with their fact checking for fear of being blogged into extinction. One’s expectations would be mistaken. Yesterday’s LA Times editorial on charter schools ...1 day ago -
John Merrow Takes the Road Most Traveled, By Corporate Charter Advocates
Schools Matter —
Authority: 138
John Merrow is better served when he sticks to putting the best news face possible on corporate education reform atrocities, all in the name of fair and balanced reporting. But he has a predictable habit of interjecting himself into educational debates that he feels he should know something about, even though his ...1 day ago -
More Documenting A New School
Virtual High School Meanderings —
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I posted an entry about this back at the end of October (see Documenting The Start Of A New School and Continuing To Document A New School), so I guess today is as good a time as any to update these entries…From Clovis Online School…Monday, no school, and Save the Date! Nov. 5Fresno State Tour on [...]2 days ago -
Two charter school studies, two findings on effectiveness
The Washington Post —
Authority: 959
As President Obama pushes for more charter schools, the education world craves a report card on an experiment nearly two decades old. How are these independent public schools doing? The safest and perhaps most accurate reply -- it depends -- leaves many unsatisfied.2 days ago -
Coming up: Board meetings, winter break and more
Florida Blog —
Authority: 150
Tuesday: Pasco School Board , 9:30 a.m. Wednesday: Commission for Independent Education, 10 a.m., Howey-in-the-Hills Thursday: USF Board of Trustees , 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3-4: The State Advisory Committee for the Education of Exceptional Students, Tallahassee Dec. 8: Pinellas School Board, 10 a.m. • ...3 days ago -
The Charter Challenge
Edwize —
Authority: 467
As the United Federation of Teachers heads toward our fiftieth anniversary in 2010, we find ourselves facing a challenge greater than any we confronted in the last half-century of our history. Our union has been tempered by many extraordinary struggles over these last five decades, but never have we seen what we are ...1 week ago -
Nearing charter cap, DOE says it won’t approve any more schools
GothamSchools Newsroom —
Authority: 603
The city’s Department of Education has nearly hit the ceiling on the number of charter schools it is allowed to authorize and will not approve any more until the state cap is lifted. On Monday, the DOE sent a list of 15 approved charter schools to the State Education Department for final authorization, leaving it ...1 week ago -
Alabama Concerned About Charter School Segregation: Massachusetts Goes Full Ahead
Schools Matter —
Authority: 138
As the pressure to bow to the bribes heats up in the Obama/Gates/Broad Race Over the Cliff, states like Alabama without charter laws are feeling the pressure from the Oligarchs to open their doors to "innovation." So far charter schools have brought us innovations like more scripted teaching, uncertified or ...1 week ago -
Discus Awards
Virtual High School Meanderings —
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I first saw information about these Discus Awards in a series of blog entries, for example:Discus Awards from Emergingmindsofmd’s BlogDiscus Award Winners Announced from The Virtual Education Blog Then I had someone send it to me as a direct message on Twitter.The link in the Twitter entry takes you to the blog ...1 week ago -
DOE switches course on process for PAVE extension request
GothamSchools Newsroom —
Authority: 603
Responding to protests that it was breaking the new mayoral control law, the Department of Education will hold a public hearing before extending PAVE Academy Charter School’s stay inside a district-owned building. The law passed this summer requires the DOE to issue an “educational impact statement” and hold a ...1 week ago -
Classes resume at charter school
Courier Times Now —
Authority: 541
Students returned to class at School Lane Charter School in Bensalem today, a day after they had been evacuated as a precaution from the school because of a nearby natural gas leak, officials said. The estimated 600 students walked across Route 13 from School Lane to the gymnasium at Holy Ghost Preparatory School ...1 week ago -
A Tale of Two High Schools
Socal Mom by Donna Schwartz Mills —
Authority: 118
This is not a good time to be a student in my state. The University of California is jacking up tuition by 20% (in addition to the rate hike students and their families absorbed earlier this year) while cutting classes and services. And it was announced yesterday that our budget woes continue to worsen: were back ...1 week ago -
SEIU Wages War on Progressives
The LA Progressive —
Authority: 143
The increasing willingness of other unions to openly back NUHW is most ominous for SEIU. It means that SEIU’s efforts to frame NUHW as a “rogue” labor organization guilty of “raiding” other unions... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]2 weeks ago -
Praxis
StickWithANose —
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D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee is the archetype of the modern education reform movement. She followed the pipeline from teaching for two years in Baltimore in the Teach for America program to the land of think tanks and advocacy organizations to becoming a useful tool for the corporate lobby. Just ...2 weeks ago -
School Lane students evacuated as a precaution
Courier Times Now —
Authority: 541
Students at School Lane Charter School off Route 13 in Bensalem have been moved across the street to Holy Ghost Preparatory School as a precaution, a school representative said moments ago. School Lane is next door to an unoccupied skating rink where fire crews and PECO representatives are searching for a gas leak. ...2 weeks ago -
School Reform’s ‘Odd Couple’ Interviewed on Meet the Press
TakePart Social Action Network —
Authority: 611
They’ve been called unlikely allies. Polar opposites. A political odd couple. And yet, at the request of President Obama, Newt Gingrich and Reverend Al Sharpton set aside their political differences to join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on a national education tour. Admittedly, I wasn’t quite sure ...2 weeks ago -
Ex-Gates director looks to open a charter school in New York
GothamSchools Newsroom —
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Former Gates Foundation education director Tom Vander Ark is behind one charter school’s application to open in New York City next year. For years, Vander Ark shaped the educational giving for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, overseeing grants the organization gave to cities that agreed to build small high ...2 weeks ago -
CGLA – ODYSSEY
CSSFury | CSS Website Gallery —
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CGLA – ODYSSEY is a new site in our CSS website gallery. Please take the time to rate it by clicking on the title..2 weeks ago -
K-12 Education Tax Credits Save Millions
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 742
The latest fiscal impact review of Arizona’s scholarship tax credit programs estimates that they saved between $44 million and $186 million last year. The programs offer individuals and businesses dollar-for-dollar tax credits if they make donations to non-profit K-12 scholarship-granting organizations. Those ...2 weeks ago
