Someone finally got it right on who’s got the best school choice system. Every now and again I’d come across a research paper that ranks big-city school di
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There has been no education leader more critical to the progress and stability of the Denver Public Schools (DPS) than Mary Seawell. She was a strong and s
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I homeschooled my son Joseph until he was 4 years old. Then I found Legacy Charter School, just by walking down the street. If I hadn’t found Legacy I woul
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We’ve finally started to receive our student-level results here in Colorado from the first year of PARCC tests, which were given way back in the halcyon da
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As a parent of eight scholars, I have been part of the charter community for nearly 17 years in Chicago. I have had eight children in four different school
Read MoreNot Feeling the Bern: Why Bernie Got It Wrong on Charter Schools
Bernie Sanders, white knight of social justice-loving liberals (like myself), has gone ahead and disappointed me one week into 2016. Lovely. Sanders was re
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