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School Choice News from Indiana and Tennessee Should Brighten Your Monday 0
- June 11, 2012
Being a Monday and all, I thought you might appreciate a little good news on the school choice front. So let’s head quickly to our nation’s Heartland, first to see my Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow’s new offering for School Reform News on the state of Hoosier State’s Choice Scholarship Program:
Scarcely more than a […]
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How Can School Choice Best Lead Us to the Greenfield of Effective Innovation?0
- June 8, 2012
Once in awhile you read something that makes you really step back and think. In that spirit I commend to you the new Friedman Foundation report The Greenfield School Revolution and School Choice by Greg Forster and James Woodworth. Want to know what I mean? Start off with a statement like this potent summary:
Existing choice […]
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Welcome to Age 5, Democrats for Education Reform: At Least You’ll Grow Older 0
- June 7, 2012
I saw an email this morning from Joe Williams, founder and executive director of Democrats for Education Reform. Receiving such a message is not a noteworthy event in and of itself. But the beginning of the message caught my eye:
Five years ago today a bunch of us set out to try to change our party. […]
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Wisconsin Postmortem: More on Teachers, Unions, and Where It’s All Headed 0
- June 6, 2012
Yesterday I shared some thoughts about the current and coming changes to public education labor relations and the teaching profession. And since Gov. Scott Walker did indeed pull out a convincing win last night in Wisconsin, interest in the topic remains strong.
State Budget Solutions has put together a great brief highlighting why current government […]
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Wisconsin & Douglas County (CO): Key Moment for Professional Teaching, Reform?0
- June 5, 2012
So I hear there’s this little election going on in Wisconsin today. As is so often the case, the political happenings are closely connected to the issues of our public school system. One of the nation’s leading education reform voices, RiShawn Biddle, has written a two-part series (here and here) highlighting the dilemma centrist Democrats […]
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What Will High-Paying Boulder Valley Get for Boosting New Teacher Salaries?0
- June 4, 2012
What if I told you the Colorado school district with the second-highest average teacher salaries just dramatically increased compensation for new hires and is still figuring out how to pay for it?
A few days ago the Boulder Daily Camera reported that the Boulder Valley School District agreed to boost starting teacher salaries to one of […]
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