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December 12, 2011
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 7, 2011 Armed with bundles of white roses — assembled to represent what they say are incidents of violence in the state’s 143 lowest-performing schools every 17 minutes — lawmakers and supporters urged that a measure to allow those students to attend alternative institutions be passed before the end of the year. [...] Read more »
December 12, 2011
by Ann Richardson Ocean City Gazette December 6, 2011 The Ocean City School District is a hot commodity. More than 85 students from across the region applied for the 39 spots in Ocean City’s popular school choice program this year. The deadline to apply was Dec. 1. “We were getting applications on the last day,” [...] Read more »
December 6, 2011
Despite the popularity of charter schools and increased necessity of new learning options, a group of parents who want to start an online charter school are under attack by their local school board, who is leading a war that includes lies, distortions and hostile actions. Read more. Read more »
December 5, 2011
Opinion By Jeffrey Piccola The Intelligencer December 4, 2011 Pennsylvania has a simple choice to make. We can embrace change and welcome educational reform, or we can choose to satisfy ourselves with the tired old policies of the past that, by any reasonable standard of measure, have failed our children. In the last decade, we [...] Read more »
December 3, 2011
Despite the popularity of charter schools and increased necessity of new learning options, a group of parents who want to start an online charter school are under attack by their local school board, who is leading a war that includes lies, distortions and hostile actions. Read more. Read more »
December 3, 2011
Supporters of a bill to give scholarships to tens of thousands of students in failing public schools to attend private and parochial schools rallied on the Statehouse steps, urging legislators to take action. Read more »
December 3, 2011
Detroit News December 1, 2011 Democrat senators are using the for-profit scare tactic to try to limit school choice in Michigan The Detroit News As state lawmakers take the correct course toward lifting the cap on charter schools, some Democrats are trying to block the move by raising the boogeyman of “profits.” Their proposal to [...] Read more »
November 9, 2011
by Jordan-Ashley Baker Shelby Star November 7, 2011 SHELBY — Organizers of what could become the county’s only charter school submitted their application Monday to the N.C. State Board of Education for approval and anticipate a decision in early February. And although it will be several months before anyone knows whether Cleveland County will have [...] Read more »
November 7, 2011
Organizers of what could become the county’s only charter school submitted their application Monday to the N.C. State Board of Education for approval and anticipate a decision in early February. Read more »
November 1, 2011
West Virginia held their gubernatorial election earlier this fall, and voters chose Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat intent to stick with what doesn’t work in education – no charter school law, no choice, and being supported by the unions. CER hopes that voters will take a look at the education policies and ideologies of these [...] Read more »
