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A reader of the blog, who shall remain nameless, sends comments repeatedly
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Trump's Dark Money
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*“The evil man is a source of fascination; ordinary persons wonder what
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When We Let Young Children Lead
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One of the reasons I'm inspired by working with young people is that they
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SCOTUS Won't Take On Parent Protest Lawsuit
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You will recall, back what seems like a thousand years, folks like Chris
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Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters supports putting a Trump bible in
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“The Science of Reading” is a real thing, so real that it’s required by law
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By Thomas Ultican 10/2/2024 On September 24, The 74 headline read, “What
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“Union Mouth”
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So—when we’re immersed in the pre-election floodwaters of political revenge
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Prime Palindromes
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I haven’t done a math puzzle in a while. Maybe a year? But I play with
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En People's Action, creemos que la gente como tu y yo podemos tomar las
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September’s Parent Engagement Resources
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A Back-to-School Guide for Connecting with Families is from ASCD. What all
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Number 18 — A barely-hanging-on Blogoversary
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Blogoversary #18 SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 I started this blog while I was still
teaching, in 2006. I had just begun my 31st year as an educator. Just like
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Could there be a "Silver Wave" for Harris/Walz?
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Bill McKibben raises this question, and goes beyond the obvious concern
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Click here for image I am so grateful for your support in the March primary
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Student "Growth" Measures Are STILL Biased
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This caught my attention:
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Time to Rein in Vouchers
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Universal voucher programs have, in many states led to substantial budget
stress (Baker, 2024;[1] Hager, 2024). Initial cost estimates in Florida
were that...
AIN’T IT AWFUL
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As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the
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15 Questions for the Candidates
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Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified
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Bibliography for History Posts on This Blog
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I remember when school reformers insisted the biggest problem
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In 2020, I was approached by Deborah Meier and Jane Andrais and I decided
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Be the change, volunteer and make the difference! Let’s face it, the world
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The Sky is Falling, or is it?
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Well, this is the first anniversary of the introduction of Generative AI in
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over o...
Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why:
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The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force
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I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago
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Skin Deep
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She spends so much time on her outward appearance. There is never a hair
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not
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*Defeating the Purpose of Education*
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. NOT!
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There is a teacher shortage.And just to be sure you understand, it's not
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Abortion: Only For Those Who Need It!
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NOTE: This post contains my opinions on Catholicism based on my experiences
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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama
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On the Edge of Silence
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at
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I've moved. Follow me at Substack
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College
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GA run-offs need your help!
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Extremely important. Volunteer if you can. Thank you if you are already
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The Threat of Integration
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I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles
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The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García
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A Fundamental Redesign of Our Schools
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I climbed the hill leading up to one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle
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I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this
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NAEP scores and "the science of reading"
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*Sent to US News. They just informed me that they no longer publish
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Déjà vu: 2019 ELA Assessment: Dear Board of Regents
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Dear Board of Regents,
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The World According to Michelle Rhee
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The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms
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The MAP Test
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They don’t look like a duck. They don’t quack like a duck. Do you really want to serve them confit with a nice orange sauce?
Sure, charters are funded by tax dollars. However, that’s usually where the similarities end.
They don’t teach like public schools, they don’t spend their money like public schools, they don’t treat students or parents like public schools – in fact, that’s the very reason they exist – to be as unlike public schools as possible.
Advocates claim charters exist as laboratory schools. They are free to experiment and find new, better ways of doing things. Once they’ve proven their successes, these improved practices will eventually trickle down to our more traditional houses of learning.
At least, that’s the ideal behind them. But to my knowledge it’s never happened.
As a public school teacher, I can never recall being at a training where charter operators taught us how to do things better with these time-tested strategies. I do, however, recall watching excellent co-workers furloughed because my district had to Most Charter Schools are Public Schools in Name ONLY | gadflyonthewallblog:
A federal whistle-blower suit claims an elementary principal at the Franklin Towne Charter School in Bridesburg was hired under false pretenses and then terminated after he raised serious concerns about its operations.
Todd A. Dupell alleges that he was wrongfully dismissed as principal last August after he complained to the board chair that the charter was billing the Philadelphia School District for full-day kindergarten even though the program was not full day; the charter was awash in nepotism; and the school was paying the wife of a former board member $80,000 for a nonexistent job because otherwise her husband could "make noise."
Dupell also alleged that the charter was violating state law because it was not providing required services to students who were learning English.
He is suing Franklin Towne Charter School, its board and several officials, including CEO Joseph M. Venditti; chief academic officer Patrick Field, and Cynthia A. Marelia, longtime board chair.
"It's always important that whistle-blowers in public- school settings not be punished and retaliated against," said Patrick J. Whalen, Dupell's lawyer.
James A. Rocco 3rd, Franklin Towne's longtime lawyer, said: "We cannot comment on anything that's in active litigation."
Franklin Towne, which is based at the former Frankford Arsenal, operates a high school with 1,200 students and an elementary school with 900 K-8 students. The high school opened in 2000; the elementary school opened nine years later.
Dupell's suit, filed in federal court in New Jersey last month, contends that Franklin Towne officials and a firm it hired approached him in 2014 and encouraged him to leave his job as principal of Morrisville Elementary School in Bucks County.
According to the complaint, the officials said the job was open because Field had been promoted to a post at the high school. And after being assured that he could have a long future with the charter, Dupell left his position in Morrisville, where he had been granted tenure.
Within days of his arrival, Dupell said, staffers told him Field had been removed as principal in response to an outcry from parents over allegations of improper behavior,
More Transcribed Interactions from USDOE CIO Danny Harris’ Hearing
On February 08, 2016, I published transcribed excerpts from the February 02, 2016, Congressional Oversight Committee Hearing of US Department of Education (USDOE) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Danny Harris.
Danny Harris
In this post, I continue my transcription of select discussion from the three-hour hearing.
Let’s just jump right back in.
Regarding Harris’ receiving continued annual bonuses despite his department’s receiving an F for cyber security– and for his apparently never having achieved such security during his tenure as CIO– Harris had this to say (minute 45:30):
I’d also like to put my job as CIO in context, if I may.
Cyber security is absolutely critical to the federal government. However, it is only one of the mission-critical responsibilities under my leadership. Uh, for example, I run the entire financial management platform. Uh, we have received 13 clean audit opinions. We have an incredible IT investment management program. We have the best grants management system in the federal government.
One, I think, should look at the totality of my leadership and not just cyber– even though I agree the Department had a poor record–but again, it is only one aspect of my job– though it is a critical aspect.
Sooo, cyber security is critical, and Harris has never delivered on cyber security as CIO, but somehow, that should be excused (as should his over $200,000 in bonuses) because other aspects of his job have shown better results.
No.
At minute 1:08:45, Rep. Fahrenhold addressed Harris as follows:
Uh, yeah. My concern is that you guys have pretty much every student’s
Credentialing commission considers slowing rotation of substitute teachers
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing this week will consider whether to create a new teaching permit in place of a decades-old permit that limits the amount of time substitutes can fill in for teachers on medical and other legally required leave.
The time limits expose students unnecessarily to a string of rotating substitute teachers, which educators have long complained interrupts classroom instruction and exposes students to instructors with a range of teaching styles and with varying levels of competence and expertise.
The issue is attracting additional attention because school districts throughout California are increasingly having to rely on substitute teachers without full credentials to blunt the impact of a growing teacher shortage in almost every subject area.
As U.S. public schools have grown increasingly segregated by race and income, there is a growing number of school districts and charter schools striving for greater balance among their students, according to new research released Tuesday by the Century Foundation, a left-leaning think tank.
Researchers identified 91 school districts and charter school chains serving more than 4 million students — including the District of Columbia and Chicago Public Schools — that are using tools such as magnet schools, weighted lotteries, and changes in school attendance zones to create more balance between white students and those of color, and between low-income and more affluent children.
That is more than double the number employing such tactics in 2007, according to Halley Potter, a fellow at the Century Foundation and one of the authors of the report.
The new methods, which rely on choice and incentives, are a far cry from the forced busing policies that were a hallmark of early desegregation efforts. In many cases, school districts are focused on integrating children of different economic backgrounds, as opposed to race, though the two are inextricably linked, Potter said.
“Part of the growth of these socioeconomic strategies is a reflection of the legal environment for racial desegregation, which just continues to get trickier,” she said. “Communities serious about tackling integration find that these tools are the best way.”
U.S. public schools are more racially segregated now than they were in the 1970s. More than one-third of all black and Latino students attend schools that are more than 90 percent non-white, according to the Century Foundation. For white students, the image is flipped: more than one-third attend schools that are nearly all white.
Research shows that children from low-income families — a group that is proportionately more African American and Latino — perform better academically when they attend schools that are not majority-poor. Segregated, high-poverty schools tend to have fewer experienced teachers, fewer challenging courses, inferior facilities, less access to private funding and In an age of resegregation, these schools are trying to balance poor and wealthy kids - The Washington Post:
Unions must act on the principle that if it's a social justice issue, it's a labor issue.
The aim of the New Jersey City University's Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project is to apply research, explained in accessible language, to address those very hard issues that divide teacher unions from communities of color and support strong alliances.
Dr. Lois Weiner, Project Director of the Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project, is an internationally-known scholar in urban teacher education and teacher unionism.
This event is sponsored by the GC Urban Education Program, GC Critical Psychology Program, Public Science Project, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Graduate Center Chapter, Teachers Unite, and the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE)
Mark Obenshain is a lawyer/legislator in Virginia who has all sorts of cool ideas for laws to pass.
Back in 2009, he proposed a law that would require all women who had a miscarriage while not right near a doctor to report that miscarriage within twenty-four hours. He was reportedly trying to respond to a case in which a woman threw her dead child in a dumpster; he wanted a law that would allow her prosecution, but he came up with something so broad and ill-considered that it was untenable.
Not thinking things through seems to be an Obenshain specialty. He ran for Attorney General and lost. His "Support Team Obenshain" website hasn't had a new post since August, 2015, when he happily announced his gig as Virginia Campaign Chairman for Scott Walker. Oopsies.
Obenshain also likes to take a hard-right swing at education. Like any good conservative values politician, he would like to strip local school boards of their power, so he's proposed a charter school law that would give the state board of education the power to authorize charters. But local school districts already have that power, and the state of Virginia just isn't clamoring for charters-- it's almost as if they find their public system plenty okay. Putting authorization of charters out of local hands of course creates issues for local taxpayers-- someone else puts up a charter school in your community and you have to pay for it whether you want it there or not. And actual conservatives have a soft spot for local control. Obenshain is apparently not one of those conservatives.
But also at the top of his Haven't Really Thought This Through list is SB 737. This is a pretty straightforward bill:
Payment of public employees for time away from their official duties; employee organizations; penalty. Prohibits public employers from paying leave or benefits to any public CURMUDGUCATION: VA: Stupid Lawmaker Tricks:
The report is sixty-some pages of highly-polished CAP-flavored reformster baloney, and I've read it so you don't have to, but be warned-- this journey will be neither short nor sweet. But we have to take it in one shot, so you can see the entirety of it.
Who is CAP, again?
The Center for American Progress is billed as a left-leaning thinky tank, but it has also served as aholding tank for Clintonian beltway denizens. It was formed by John Podesta and run by him between his gigs as Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, and has provided food and shelter to many Clinton staffers who didn't want to have to leave DC while waiting for their next shot at the Big Show.
CAP loves the whole privatizing charterfying profiteering common core cheering reformster agenda. In fact, CAP's deep and abiding love for the Common Core has burned brighter than a thousand stars and longer than even Jeb! Bush's willingness to keep saying that name. CAP has stymied me, taxing CURMUDGUCATION: CAP: The Promise of Testing:
The Common Core and the "Stuff" Curriculum of E. D. Hirsch
In many ways, I see the adoption of the Common Core State Standards as the ultimate victory of E. D. Hirsch and his idea of "cultural literacy." I do not think that it is a coincidence that Hirsch advocates for a "core knowledge" curriculum while the standards are called the Common "Core."
It’s an election year and we’ve just been provided with a plan through the Governor’s office asking for nominations to the new Governor’s Council on Educational Advancement. The Council’s mission is to provide oversight to programs managed and funded through the Network for Quality Teaching and Learning established by the legislature. The Network is in charge of and funds various programs including: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations tied to high-stakes standardized testing, professional development, teacher mentoring, best practices for closing the achievement gap, early learning partnerships, recruitment of a diverse teaching force, and English Language Learners’ success.
Will educators finally be listened to, or will they be provided the usual “seat at the table” where they once again share in the poison wine?
I would like to offer some suggestions as to what such a committee would look like:
·Meetings should take place at a time where teachers can actually attend without having to plan for a substitute and incur personal costs and unpaid leave.
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Baltimore County Public Schools Used in 270 Million Dollar Tech Experiment – Save Maine Schools: Baltimore County Public Schools Used in 270 Million Dollar Tech ExperimentAs teachers in Detroit ask why their district spent 6 million dollars on a consulting contract when classrooms are overflowing and schools are in disrepair, citizens in Baltimore County are raising similar concerns over a 270 mil
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Looking Anew at How Teachers Teach | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Looking Anew at How Teachers TeachToday, reformers from both ends of the political spectrum push Common Core Standards into classrooms. They champion charters and more parental choice of schools. They want teachers to be evaluated on the basis of student test scores. Policymakers, philanthropists, and vendor
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Differences In Suspension May Cause 20 Percent Of Achievement Gap: Differences In Suspension May Cause 20 Percent Of Achievement GapThe achievement gap between black students and their peers is well documented, but conclusive explanations of the reasons for the gap are harder to come by.Now a study of more than 15,000 students in Kentucky says that as much as 20 percent of the difference may be du
School Teachers and Union Unfairly Blamed for Financial Mess in Chicago Public Schools | janresseger: School Teachers and Union Unfairly Blamed for Financial Mess in Chicago Public SchoolsHere are just some of the details of the financial morass in the Chicago Public Schools.Back in 2003, David Vitale, a banker and then-CEO Arne Duncan’s recently appointed Chief Financial Officer, convinced the ma
Investigation of USDOE CIO Danny Harris: Video and Transcribed Excerpts | deutsch29: Investigation of USDOE CIO Danny Harris: Video and Transcribed ExcerptsBelow are excerpts from the February 02, 2016, Congressional Oversight and Reform Committee’s hearing of the allegations of impropriety related to US Department of Education (USDOE) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Danny Harris. Danny HarrisI b
Room to improve school services for LGBT students :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: Room to improve school services for LGBT students(Calif.) Even with all of the progress made in recent years to improve educational services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, their well-being is still at risk in many schools with only a hand
Chinese New Year 2016: The Year of the Monkey - everything you need to know - Telegraph: Happy Chinese New Year 2016! Everything you need to know about the Year of the MonkeyThe Chinese New Year party in London will be the biggest outside of Asia. Here's your guide to the celebrations This year, Chinese New Year - The Year of the Monkey - begins on February 8th and lasts until Jan 27th, 2017.Happy
Gene V Glass: Education in Two Worlds: Would Horace MannTweet?: Would Horace MannTweet?On February 4, 2016, I was honored to have the opportunity to address the Ohio Deans Compact in Dublin, Ohio. The title of my talk was suggested by Aimee Howley and Deb Teller, the organizers of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Compact: Advancing Democratic EducationI can not be certain that the talk went in exactl
Low pay forces South Dakota teachers to hold 2nd, 3rd jobs - Yahoo News:Low pay forces South Dakota teachers to hold 2nd, 3rd jobs SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Jessica Ries settles in behind the counter of Tip Top Tux and phones a couple to remind them of an upcoming fitting before their wedding. In the back room, beyond the dapper mannequins and vest swatches of pink, yellow and blue, a tote filled w
Heroes Have Discipline Problems | Foundation for Economic Education: The Dangers of Obedience: Heroes Have Discipline ProblemsA girl in your class can't breathe. She clearly needs help. The teacher tells you to stay seated. What do you do?I would have stayed seated. At least, that's what I would have done when I was 15, the age of Texas middle schooler Anthony Ruelas.You hear the girl wheezing and
The U.S. Labor Movement’s “Pearl Harbor Moment”. The Supreme Court’s Hearing of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization: The U.S. Labor Movement’s “Pearl Harbor Moment”. The Supreme Court’s Hearing of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association War can sneak up on you. And now unions are scrambling desperately for shelter, realizin
Charter, tax credit groups again outspend teachers' unions on lobbying | POLITICO: Charter, tax credit groups again outspend teachers' unions on lobbyingWhile teachers' unions remain near the top of the list of the state’s highest-spending interest groups, a position they’ve occupied for decades, they no longer dominate education lobbying in New York.The unions have been joined by several groups s
Legislative Analyst endorses parental choice program | EdSource:Legislative Analyst endorses parental choice programIn most places in California, students must attend a school in the district where they live, or a charter school anywhere if they find one they like. But 47 districts have opened their doors to students outside their borders, under a little–used program set to expire next year.The Le
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