Editorial: State can't let money slip away - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial Sacramento Bee:
"California, of course, should tap this fund to make big improvements in student achievement. Obama has made it clear that states leading the way in four core areas can win hundreds of millions of dollars, if they can show that they are:
• Setting and enforcing rigorous standards.
• Turning around historically low-performing schools.
• Using data to determine student needs and measure teacher effectiveness.
• Putting outstanding teachers in classrooms, especially in high-poverty schools and in hard-to-staff subjects such as math, science and special education"
Charter School Funding Doubles last 14 years, Triples over last 20
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Hidden amid all the recent voucher issues is the fact that 97 percent of
Ohio's public school students receive less state aid than the average Ohio
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