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Education Chief to Warn Advocates That Inferior Charter Schools … - New York Times
New York Times
By SAM DILLON The Obama administration has made opening more charter schools a big part of its plans for improving the nation's education system, but Education Secretary Arne Duncan will warn advocates of the schools on Monday that low-quality …
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Fla. schools improve state grades - MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.com
AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's public schools have reached an all-time high this year with 62 percent earning an A in the state's grading system.
Florida Times-Union
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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Gov. Schwarzenegger wants California's schools to adopt digital … - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Schwarzenegger's "digital textbook initiative" calls for California's 6.2 million public school students to move away from hard-bound chemistry and calculus books and embrace texts in electronic form. Schwarzenegger is pitching digital textbooks as a …
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Gov. Schwarzenegger wants California's schools to adopt digital … - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Schwarzenegger's "digital textbook initiative" calls for California's 6.2 million public school students to move away from hard-bound chemistry and calculus books and embrace texts in electronic form. Schwarzenegger is pitching digital textbooks as a …
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28 cars vandalized near high schools in Sunnyvale - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The car owner, who did not want to be identified because he feared retribution, said he was parked a block away from Homestead High School from 7:45 to 11:45 pm Sunday. "This is incredibly immature," the Honda owner said Tuesday. …
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Voices of the high schools' Class of 2009 - Palo Alto Online
Palo Alto Online, CA
She expects to pursue a career in medicine, but may choose a major in the social sciences despite the preferences of her parents, both physicists. "They're really open to whatever I want to do, but I definitely feel they prefer I went into biology over …
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California charter schools stronger in reading than math - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
A Stanford University study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found, nationally, only 17% of charter schools do better academically than their public counterparts.
Boston Globe
News Chief
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Thirteen Arizona high schools make Newsweek list - Bizjournals.com
Bizjournals.com
Thirteen Arizona high schools made Newsweek's annual list of the nation's 1500 best this year. Basis Charter of Tucson topped the group of public schools at No. 5, down from its first-place finish in 2008. The school was started in 1997 by economists …
San Jose Mercury News
St. Louis American
Monitor
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How much freedom do charter schools deserve? - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Are charter schools given too much latitude in teaching ideology to their students? Lisa Snell and Ralph E. Shaffer debate. Today's topic: The Times recently reported on charter schools in Oakland that openly mock liberal orthodoxy and practice harsh …
GothamSchools
Boston Globe
Las Vegas Sun
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Failed ballot measure leaves Cupertino schools with fewer funding … - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
"The fact of the matter is that none of us know what is going to happen yet," said Rick Hausman, chief business officer for the Cupertino Union School District. Hausman said that specific program or employee cuts have not been considered. …
