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Bill de Blasio Stays in the Slow Lane on School Improvement

Chalkbeat reports today that New York City Bill de Blasio's $400 million plan to improve the city's 94 worst high…

9 years ago

N.J. PARCC Scores: All Our Kids are Above Average (well, mostly)

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact,…

9 years ago

QOD: Chris Stewart on How We Misunderstand Rosa Parks and the Meaning of Integration

The denigration of charter schools often revolves around what Chris calls the  "integration imperative": that school improvement is inextricably linked…

9 years ago

N.J.’s School Funding Formula Is Broken, and Not Just for Children with Disabilities

New Jersey’s legislated school funding formula, the 2008 School Funding Reform Act, is a hot mess. In fact, many people…

9 years ago

Hillary & Bernie Gagged on K-12 Education Policy Discussions by Unions?

That's the gist of this piece by Mark Hemingway in the Weekly Standard. He writes,In August, [Campbell] Brown organized an…

9 years ago

It Could Be Worse: What if Cuomo Had Written the New NCLB?

‘The single best thing that I can do,” Gov. Cuomo said last year, is “break what is in essence one…

9 years ago

An Ohio Teacher Responds to Revelations that NEA and AFT Spent $5.7 Mil in 3 Years on Posh Hotels, Exotic Trips, and Limos

“It’s our money,” said Jade Thompson, an Ohio Spanish teacher, who makes about $65,000 a year and has challenged mandatory…

9 years ago

MA PARCC Update: “Nat’l Media Has Inaccurately Described MA as ‘Abandoning the Common Core and PARCC'”

On Sunday the New York Times featured an article on the demise of the Common Core and PARCC assessments in…

9 years ago

Cuomo Cries “Uncle” to Labor Lobbyists and Eviscerates NYS’s Teacher Evaluation Reform

When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo navigated an overhaul of the teacher tenure law last Spring, he took a moribund…

9 years ago

QOD: Hillary Clinton’s “Political Posturing” on Charter Schools; a Personal Story About a Special Kid

Beth Hawkins (whom I'm proud to call a colleague) at RealClearEducation on her struggles to meet the needs of her…

9 years ago