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• Dr. Fischer: D150 is big ship, hard to reform

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 424
  Dr. Cindy Fischer spoke at the Uplands Residential Association meeting Thursday night, November 12. She had been invited by Uplands resident Jennifer Brady to talk about the Peoria Charter School Initiative . Her presentation was similar to the one given at the Civic Center , except that there were no ...
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• The Three Stooges Go to School

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  (Since Michael Bloomberg won re-election, Moe will now be played by Arne Duncan. Photo by Jed Kirschbaum, AP). The hilarious trio took their political antics on the road Friday to a KIPP school in Baltimore . There to lightheartedly promote their support for segregated total compliance testing camps that focus on ...
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• Hoxby Charter Study Turns Hoaxby

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  I was at Substance News this morning enjoying the work of the Schmidt Team when I came across some important news I had missed. No doubt I would still be missing it if it were not for Substance News , for the research review by EPIC and EPRU announced below remains ignored by corporate editorial boards ...
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• Hynes Charter School Visit – Thursday, November 12, 2009

  
  The Story Connection Blog — Authority: 124
  11-12-09 Dianne telling spooky stories to Gr. 4-8 Friends: Today, I performed two school shows at Hynes Charter School on Gentilly Boulevard in New Orleans. It was my first school visit since I sprained my ankle last week. I arrived at the school and an army of helpers – teachers and parents helped me unload and ...
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• Andre Agassi: What a rich man’s discontent can teach us all about living an authentic life

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 544
  They say money can’t buy happiness. The same also goes for celebrity, and even the status that accompanies being among the best in the world at your profession. We’ve had ample demonstration of this in recent days. Robert Enke, the goaltender for Hannover 96 (who currently hover in the middle of the German ...
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• Charter does more with same dollars

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 608
  A San Jose charter elementary school with low-income students and very high test scores has won an award for financial  efficiency , reports John Fensterwald on Educated Guess. Rocketship Education saves $500,000 per school per year by using online instruction to supplement classroom teaching.  The savings enables ...
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• Sustainability Education Week

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature’s ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is ...
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• Oxford Files K-8 Charter & Leader’s Bio: SVUSD Hearing Tuesday

  
  Mission Viejo Dispatch — Authority: 135
     Oxford Preparatory Academy of Mission Viejo (OPAMV) filed a 300-page charter for its proposed tuition-free college-prep K-8 school in the Saddleback School District.      The SVUSD Trustees will conduct a public hearing on the matter at its meeting this Tuesday, November 10, at 6:15pm.  The Board won’t ...
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• To win over Albany, charter advocates begin organizing parents

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 623
  Burned by Albany funding cuts, charter school advocates are turning to a political base that they’ve long left untapped: parents. In mid-October, a dozen charter school administrators gathered in a conference room at the Times Square Marriott for a seminar on the role of parents in charter school advocacy. Kenneth ...
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• After Years of "Innovation," NJ Charters Perform No Better Than Poorest Public Schools

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  Below is part of an analysis done by Rutgers associate professor, Dr. Bruce Baker, for the Education Law Center in Newark, NJ. When looking at New Jersey test scores or graduation rates , New Jersey charter schools do much worse on average than most New Jersey public schools and no better than the poor public ...
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• Gloucester Parents Stage Protest Against Crooked Charter School Approval

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  (Photo from Boston Globes Jonathan Wiggs). Parents were out in force Saturday as State officials reluctantly met in Gloucester to once more air the corrupt process that rammed through the approval of an unwanted and unneeded charter school in Gloucester. From the Gloucester Daily Times: . . . .Prior to the ...
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• The Real Effects of Corporate Charter Schools on Public Schools

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  Grover Norquist, whose Center for Tax Reform is prominent among the organizational supporters of Michelle Rhees Reign of Terror in DC , is also famous for saying, “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” In Los Angeles, ...
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• Charter school funds first year of college

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 608
  A Detroit charter school is funding the first year of colleg e for 124 students, if they fulfill a senior-year contract calling for good grades, completed homework, extra reading and taking college readiness and study skills classes. University Preparatory High School , which serves low-income black students, is ...
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• Virginia poses challenges for charter school advocates

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  Tuesdays elections in Virginia swept a staunch supporter of charter schools into the governors mansion, raising hopes for advocates in a state that has been skeptical of the publicly funded, privately run alternatives to regular public schools.
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• Chicago’s First Unionized Charter Schools Ratify First Contract

  
  Edwize — Authority: 423
  From the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (Chicago ACTS): Teachers and staff at three Civitas charter schools overwhelmingly ratified their first contract today, crediting a collaborative negotiations process for achieving the breakthrough agreement. The three-year collective bargaining ...
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• Peoria Charter School Initiative

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 424
  Thursday night at the Civic Center, the Peoria Charter School Initiative brought in students, parents, and teachers from the Chicago Math & Science Academy to talk about the benefits of charter schools. Here’s a portion of the presentation:
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• Spartanburg Charter School Open Enrollment

  
  The Conservativist — Authority: 115
  The Spartanburg Charter School (SCS) has begun its open enrollment period to allow new students the opportunity to attend Spartanburg’s only alternative public school option.  The open enrollment period is primarily open for new kindergarten students, but a few seats remain in other grade levels.  Due to the ...
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• We can get you that number

  
  edspresso — Authority: 416
  Q: And how many charter schools are there in the country about? SECRETARY DUNCAN: I don’t have a hard number for you. We can get you that number. Q: Thousands? SECRETARY DUNCAN: Yes, thousands, thousands. Yes. ( Press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to Madison, WI - 11/4 ) 4,578. That’s the answer ...
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• Imagine Charter Schools Receive $11,000,000 from Duncans Stim Fund

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  Sylvia Smith, the Journal Gazettes Washington editor , has been doing a little digging of her own. Dennis Bakke, who has the lead role in the investigative piece reported below by Soderland and Stockman is getting fabulously wealthy from Federal education dollars, with no oversight, no accountability, no scientific ...
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• Imagine Schools, Inc., Pt. III of the Corporate Charter School Story

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 508
  In this episode of the continuing corrupt adventures of crackpot, Dennis Bakke, and Imagine Schools, Inc., we find out how corporate charters in Texas are owned by corporate charters in Ft. Wayne, all of which are controlled by, thats right, by Dennis Bakke at the home office in Arlington, VA. Clips from the Ft. ...
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