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Bushes honor success stories at Celebration of Reading

February 18, 2012
Jeanne Allen, the president for the Center for Education Reform who participated in the FGCU forum, believes schools should cut down barriers and open their doors to parents. She said disadvantaged families, particularly those who don’t speak English, don’t know how to help their children learn how to read because they never got that training. Read more »

New York Joins Obama-Backed Movement Tying Teacher Reviews to Test Scores

February 17, 2012
“This is a big step in the right direction that puts New York up there in the top tier of states that have already begun down the road of codifying an evaluation system with some portion based on student test scores,” Allen said. “It’s terrific that we have people from both parties finally recognizing that evaluation is an important component of creating student achievement.” Read more »

Proposal to expand charter school authorizing elicits mixed reviews

February 13, 2012
Jeanne Allen, president of the pro-charter Center for Education Reform, said she is not a fan of adding dozens of new nonprofits as authorizers, but she does support expanding the authorization power beyond local school boards and state education boards. Read more »

Leaving 'No Child' law: Obama lets 10 states flee

February 10, 2012
While No Child Left Behind isn't perfect, said Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, it's thrown a valuable spotlight on problem schools. She said giving districts and states more flexibility "without firm consequence" is not reform. Read more »

Charter schools have smaller classes, higher test scores — but what are the drawbacks?

February 6, 2012
But even the best-planned charter school can fail to measure up, as evidenced in a recent study by The Center for Education Reform. It found that 15 percent of charter schools nationwide have closed since 1992. Read more »

What Happens to the Kids When Charter Schools Fail?

January 31, 2012
Jeanne Allen, CER's president, says administrative problems indicate that a school isn't working long before test scores come out; the center's data, she says, shows that failing schools do get shut down even without the new regulations. Read more »

Fairfax teacher proposes charter school

January 19, 2012
Charter advocates have long considered Virginia hostile ground, and that hasn’t changed under Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), who promised a major charter school expansion when he was elected in 2009. There were three charter schools in the commonwealth when McDonnell took office. Now there are four, according to the pro-charter Center for Education Reform. Read more »

Washington lawmakers to propose charter schools bill

January 12, 2012
Charter schools have been back on the agenda in many states without charter school laws, including bills introduced but not passed in four, while some of the 42 states with charter school laws have voted to expand their use, according to the Center for Education Reform. Read more »

Charter schools must succeed or close

January 3, 2012
“All too often, supporters and opponents of charter schools claim that bad charter schools don’t close,” said Jeanne Allen, the center’s president. “The truth is, charter schools that don’t measure up are closing. Regrettably, the same can’t be said for traditional public schools.” Read more »

About 15 Percent of Charter Schools Shut Down, Group Says

December 22, 2011
Of roughly 6,700 charter schools that have opened in the United States, 1,036 have closed since 1992, says a report unveiled today by the Center for Education Reform, in Washington. "Performance-based accountability is the cornerstone of charter schools," the report says. Read more »