Photograph; House Speaker and state Democratic Party chair Michael Madigan (left) shakes hands with Mustafa Demir, the mayor of Fatih district in Turkey. By Dan Mihalopoulos | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. December 23, 2013 When Concept Schools Inc. wanted to open two charter schools [...]
Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
Photograph; Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson, right, meets with Dashonnah Gittens, left, and fellow junior Armani Stevenson at an event last fall. (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger) One more community is torn asunder. The Newark New Jersey School District was not the first; nor will it be the last [...]
Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]
Photograph; Katherine Myers, founder of the Great Lakes Academy Charter School, said community feedback in the South Shore neighborhood showed a strong support for the school. Say that community schools are under-utilized. Close those neighborhood schools. Insist the children walk for miles on unsafe streets or travel [...]
Graph; Louisiana's voucher program expanded statewide last year from a New Orleans pilot, gaining attention from the U.S. Justice Department. Legislative auditor Daryl Purpera said Monday there's not enough oversight of the expanded (and expanding) budget. (Louisiana Legislative Auditor) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published at Times [...]
By Michael Deshotels | Originally Published at The Louisiana Educator. December 16, 2013 This report is based on data provided by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Image above: Former State Superintendent, Mike Ward speaks at news conference announcing lawsuit By Félix Pérez | Originally Published at Education Votes. December 13, 2013 A group of North Carolinians, including active and retired educators, a former state school superintendent, the president of the state’s largest educators’ [...]
Originally Published at Education Justice. December 13, 2013 On December 11, 2013, plaintiffs in Hart v. State of North Carolina asked the Superior Court there to declare the state's new voucher law unconstitutional. The Complaint, filed by parent-taxpayer plaintiffs, cites several provisions of the North Carolina Constitution [...]
