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5000+ Charter Schools Already Help Students Race to the Top
Innovative Reforms Makings Schools Work Better for Children
As states work on their efforts to 'Race to the Top,' one reform has been making a difference in the lives of millions of kids for nearly two decades. Today, 5,043 charter schools in 39 states and the District of Columbia are allowing families to opt out of schools that are failing their children and into schools that are serving them.
Got Charters?
Charter Schools in Your State: There Ought to be a Law
 With Mississippi killing its excuse-for-a-charter-law this past summer, eleven states now have no charter school law, denying kids in those states an opportunity for more and better school choices. CER looks at how those states can get back in the race with strong charter laws.
More on charter school laws.
Got School Choice?
Parents, educators, philanthropists, reform-minded policymakers and powerbrokers both Democrat and Repulican support school choice. (See for yourself.) Yet hundreds of thousands of children are wait listed for charter schools. Low-income DC children are set to lose the opportunity scholarships that helped them get a better education. Why? More on the who, what, where, and why of school choice.
How Dare You?
edspresso - your daily cuppa hot education reform news, with a twist
Congressman Serrano's disingenuous missive in the Washington Post about school choice in Washington, DC, - specifically the fate of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - is layered with obfuscation and misperceptions. And we're calling him on it.
More on DCOSP's fate at In Focus: School Choice DC.
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Proposed Education Reforms Spark New Dissent
By Staci Hupp,
Des Moines Register,
November 21,2009
Critics say the federal government's criteria for teacher evaluations are so broad that Iowa could follow the lead of states like Wisconsin. A bill in that state's Legislature would figure test scores into teacher evaluations, but districts would not be allowed to fire teachers who do not measure up. More from CER on Teacher Quality.
Education Legacy: . . . And Charter Schools Are the Way to Start
By Jeanne Allen,
Richmond Times-Dispatch,
November 17,2009
While McDonnell wants to be a "jobs governor," he needs to also be an "education governor," and hit the ground running in a state that has seen too many false starts on school reform.
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