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A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.
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May’s Best Posts
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I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month —
not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more
extensive mont...
Ed.gov set to gut IDEA/IEP Compliance…
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From Diane Ravitch: …DoEd will reform (translation: eliminate) OSEP’s
compliance procedures assuring IDEA and special education IEPs are
effectively workin...
Everything's Connected, and it Ain't Lookin' Good
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Let's not forget the reason Scantron is so interested in catapulting the
propaganda around charter schools. Scantron exists to make money for the
sharehol...
The in box. An Illinois teacher’s message to Obama.
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Dear Fred! We have had our differences in the past. Over the last several
months I have agreed with many of your posts. Disagreed with others. I
think you ...
School Reform in Louisiana, As If
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The State Education Department in Louisiana has given approval to the New
Living Word School in Ruston, Louisiana, to accept 315 voucher students.
The scho...
Reunion
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I write this sitting in a small dormitory room at Haverford College, which
I entered in 1963, but from which I did not finally graduate until 1973.
This...
SOS EARLY CHILDHOOD WEBINAR
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Save Our Schools Webinar Early Childhood Educators Say “No!” to Standards
and Tests
June 1, 2012, 9 PM Eastern Daylight Time [EDT}
Please Join Us!
*Nancy ...
Sacramento Music Festival - Friday Photos
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The Sacramento Music Festival began its Memorial Day weekend run on Friday
afternoon in Old Sacramento. Previously known as the Sacramento Jazz
Jubilee a...
Horace Mann & Compulsory Schooling
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I have continued to ponder why school for kids continues to be compulsory
(with the requisite coercion) while most everything else we do in America
(except...
Quick Hits (5.25.12) – Graduation Edition
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Promises kept. Twelve years ago, a Georgia businessman made a promise to
first graders that he would send them to college. This year, they’re taking
him up...
Les Miserables at CAPA – it almost didn't happen
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I had the privilege of seeing *Les Miserables* at Philadelphia's High
School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Thursday night.
I've seen *Les Miz* ...
Deception by NYSED about the state field tests?
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There's lots of controversy about next month's NY state field tests, and
due to be given next month in all public schools statewide, in certain
grades and ...
The Flipped Class: Students Talk
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"There is no one-size fits all in education,
but as teachers,
we always can benefit from observing and listening to our students." Results from Student Sat...
Systems. How they can inspire or burn us....
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Systems. We exist within them, we work in them, we send our
children to them. There are systems all around us. School systems,
government s...
Don’t Grade The MTA
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Dear members of the NYC City Councilmembers, I get it. You want to hold the
MTA accountable somehow for their abhorrent misuse of funds, consistently
delay...
It's Principal Firing Season in DC Public Schools!
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Written By Candi Peterson
Recently letters were sent out to DC Public Schools principals notifying
them whether their yearly contract as a principal will ...
Labor Leader Paves Way for Teacher Concessions
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The region’s most powerful labor leader says the school district and the
teachers union must sit down immediately to forge a solution that avoids
more than...
'The New Jim Crow'
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The manufactured school "crisis" we are living through may have much to learn from the "crime" and "drug" crisis that has built prisons instead of schools, t...
The coming deluge of tests
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Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22, 2012
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/22/letters-education-changes/
I wonder how many people are a...
From Isolation, to Collaboration, to Leadership
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This guest blog post comes to InterACT from Cate Kruse Schroeder, a
bilingual-kindergarten teacher from San Jose, CA. A member of Accomplished
California ...
Educational (in)Equity Part 3
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This week we were going to highlight some data from our Ready Middle Schools Project, but it seems more pertinent to comment on the recent articles by the Ex...
Growing Bill Looms for School Repairs
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San Diego Unified has pushed back its plans to fix up aging schools because
of financial woes and the desire to get other things done first. That will
cost...
Kids These Days
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The Occupy movement continues to grow...globally! Here in Sacramento,
Cesar Chavez Park remains the center of Occupy activity, with protesters
saying the...
Sacramento Scoop is on Vacation
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Sacramento Scoop is taking an end of summer break. We hope you will enjoy
some of our previous posts and we will be back soon.
Is This Really Fair CPS?
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The Chicago Public Schools want to give teachers a 2% raise for 29% more
hours. For a beginning teacher this is $3.08 an hour. That’s considerably
less t...
My Review of Freshwaterboys by Adam Schuitema
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Well, Litstack went live on Monday and my first review went live today. You
can find my review of Adam Schuitema's wonderful collection of short storiesh...
Todo el mundo ama los Viernes
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Everyone loves Fridays. My office is filled with the sounds of “Happy
Friday!” and “Thank God it’s Friday!” and other festive Friday greetings.
Monday is...
The Ghost in the (Learning) Machine
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So, David’s initial concern was that some people come to MOOC’s without the
requisite knowledge they need to really advance. That’s not a denial of the
imp...
10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
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So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of
writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an
amazing...
College & Careers, No More Cuts! (Video)
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Governor Cuomo is proposing a $1.5 billion cut to public school funding,
the largest cut in New York State History. In this entry to the Alliance
for Quali...
It's really great that every now and then I ca...
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It's really great that every now and then I can make a statement on a
critical issue in such a compelling way that nobody disagrees!
Of course, no one agre...
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