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President Pushes Private School Vouchers for Poor Students
Submitted by Kim Trobee on 1.29.2007
Under No Child Left Behind, low income students can transfer to another public school in their district that is performing better. The only problem? There aren’t enough successful schools to accommodate all the kids who want to move. Clint Bolick with the Alliance for School Choice says under the new plan, parents could also choose charter and private schools.
API-Yai-Yai
Submitted by Alfred Lee on 1.25.2007
California’s education system is failing, and Lance Izumi believes he has the answers.
School grant program wastes billions
Submitted on 1.23.2007
Just how much improvement of low-accomplishing public schools have Californians purchased with the $1.25 billion in their taxes spent on No Child Left Behind special programs?
Laton High scores up — why?
Submitted by Christina Vance on 1.19.2007
Laton High School's test scores are improving. Everyone can agree on that.
But three groups — a research organization, state educators and school officials — can't quite agree on what made the Fresno County school score better.
Transparently bad data of little use
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 1.17.2007
In his State of the State address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touched on some key education principles. Foremost was his call for enhancing parental choice by improving the transparency of the public school system through online information about school performance, funding and demographics.
A school finds a singular road to academic success
Submitted by Howard Blume on 1.14.2007
Compton fifth-grader Alejandra Guizar has already gone to class at Tufts, Stanford, Emory and Princeton. And it's just by chance that she missed out on Harvard.
More school funding doesn't fix the schools
Submitted by Steven Greenhut on 1.14.2007
New study finds more than $1 billion in public funds to improve schools yielded little student academic improvement.
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