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The high-school graduation rate -- the ultimate barometer of academic success -- has shot up markedly under mayoral control, according to state and city statistics.
Categories: Education News
President Barack Obama's call on states to lift the limits restricting the growth of public charter schools is supported by nearly three out of four voters (74%), according to a national opinion poll recently conducted for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and released today.
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Student achievement results from the "nation's report card" published last week show that we are on the right track. Since enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, which called for all students to be on grade level in reading and math by 2014, students have been making progress in reading and math in elementary and middle school.
Categories: Education News
As former governors from different political parties who remain passionate about the quality of education in America, we agree that Arne Duncan is one lucky guy. As part of the $787 billion spending package passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama in February, the new education secretary gets $5 billion to spend on projects that will transform America's education system.
Categories: Education News
It isn't often you see a leading teachers union announce it is taking money from what many of its members consider the enemy: corporate billionaires who have been bankrolling the largely nonunion charter school movement.
Categories: Education News
No single impediment to closing the nation's shameful achievement gap looms larger than the culture of excuse that now permeates our schools. Too many educators today excuse teachers, principals, and school superintendents who fail to substantially raise the performance of low-income minority students by claiming that schools cannot really be held accountable for student achievement because disadvantaged
students bear multiple burdens of poverty.
Categories: Education News OP-ED
One of the nation's most highly praised charter-school operators has landed another sizable donation to open campuses in the Los Angeles area.
Categories: Education News
In our first 100 days, the Obama administration has presented a comprehensive education agenda -- from the cradle through college -- that protects children and jobs in the short term and invests in the long term by advancing education reform.
Categories: Education News OP-ED
As expected, education officials agreed Wednesday to change the way they approve applications to open public charter schools, giving a higher priority to proposals that serve low-income and disadvantaged students in low-performing school districts.
Categories: Education News
A friend asked, "Can economic development and social justice be achieved simultaneously?" I think the answer is, "Yes, they always develop together but are always in tension."
This is the central question of the American experiment.
Categories: Education News OP-ED
Jean-Claude Brizard, Rochester City School District Superintendent
Howard Fuller, Former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent
Chancellor Joel I. Klein, New York City, NY
Joe Williams, Executive Director, Democrats For Education Reform
Roy Romer, Senior Advisor to the President, The College Board
Mayor Adrian Fenty, District of Columbia
Amy Wilkins, Principal Partner, Education Trust
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, CA
Mayor Cory Booker, Newark, NJ
Janet Murguia, President & CEO of National Council of La Raza
Mayor Kevin Johnson, Sacramento, CA
Lisa Graham-Keegan, Founder, Education Breakthrough Network
Michael Lomax, President & CEO of the United Negro College Fund
Senator Michael Bennett, D-CO
Chancellor Michelle Rhee, District of Columbia
Raul Yzaguirre, Former President and CEO, NCLR
Deborah Gist, Education Commissioner, Rhode Island
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City, NY
Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia, PA
Paul Pastorek, Superintendent, LA State
Paul Vallas, Superintendent, New Orleans Recovery
Ramon Cortines, Superintendent, LAUSD
Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, IL
Andres Alonso, Baltimore City Public Schools CEO
Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida
Senator John McCain, R-AZ
Jared Polis, U.S. House of Representatives, D-CO
Jordan Coleman, Youth Filmmaker, Actor, Student
Steve Barr, Green Dot Founder and Chairman
Peter Groff, CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Eva Moskowitz, Success Charter Network Founder and CEO
Marc Ecko, Marc Ecko Enterprises Founder and Chief Creative Officer
J.B. Schramm, CEO and Founder, College Summit
Richard R. Buery Jr., President and CEO, Children’s Aid Society
John Conyers Jr., U.S. House of Representatives, D-MI
Jon Schnur, New Leaders for New Schools CEO and Co-Founder
Mike Feinberg, Co-Founder, KIPP
Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute President and CEO
Tiki Barber, Chairman, Tiki Ventures LLC
Alisha Thomas Morgan, GA General Assembly—State Representative
Chaka Fattah, U.S. House of Representatives, PA
Ted Mitchell, NewSchools Venture Fund, Chief Executive Officer
Iris Chen, “I Have a Dream” Foundation, President and CEO
Kevin P. Chavous, attorney, author, and national school reform leader
Margaret Spellings, Margaret Spellings and Company
Rod Paige, Former Secretary of Education (2001 - 2005)
