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November 7, 2011
One of the area's largest business groups is announcing a strategy to close the education gap in Milwaukee. Read more »
November 6, 2011
Key lawmakers and educators are growing increasingly pessimistic that a massive overhaul of federal school policy can get through Congress before the 2012 election-year battles could doom the hopes for major bipartisan legislation. Read more »
October 26, 2011
Gov. Bobby Jindal is reelected and intends to make K-12 education reform a top priority in the next term. Read more »
October 26, 2011
Wisconsin’s budget committee passes bill, which would create an independent charter school board to authorize charters in medium and large districts around the state. Read more »
October 26, 2011
Andre Agassi plans on deploying $500 million over the next three years to build 75 charter schools throughout the country in cities, like Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Read more »
October 19, 2011
Researchers complete three-year study of Denver Public Schools' pay-for-performance system and find correlation to improved test scores. Read more »
October 19, 2011
Senate Republicans unexpectedly help teachers’ unions by knocking out teacher evaluations in proposed rewrite of NCLB. Read more »
October 18, 2011
More than 100,000 students attending 226 schools in Ohio are eligible for state school choice program in next school year. Read more »
October 17, 2011
Race to the Top remains overrated in terms of impact. While there was a flurry of multi-state activity caused, it didn't result in any real snow. Jeanne Allen explains how strong governors are vital in ed reform, not Washington’s carrot and stick. Read more »
October 4, 2011
One of several path-breaking movies to hit the mainstream theatres last year, Waiting for Superman educated thousands about the plight of U.S. schools. It conveyed the urgency of the problem, clarified the crisis, and sought to engage a nation ... Read more »
