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Charters in Texas, Arizona; will add sites in Florida, Louisiana
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“If you don’t provide results for kids…then you don’t get your school renewed.”
A "venture bureaucrat" tells how she tripled the number of charter schools in New York—while also holding failing schools accountable.
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How to Make College More Affordable? Try the Charter School Model
“If the accreditation barriers to the formation of new colleges can be lowered, human and philanthropic capital will mobilize.”
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Can We Revive Standards-Based Reform?
Statewide curriculum sounds seductive, but charters, vouchers are more promising.
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Backfilling Charter School Seats Didn’t Hurt Test Scores, New Boston Study Finds
“Strong evidence that high-performing charter schools can continue to benefit their current students even as they incorporate new students into vacant seats”
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Could Great Hearts Academy Change the Face of Private Education?
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Rees Responds to Hess on Charter Strategy
“It makes no sense for people on the right to abandon independently run public charter schools.”
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Flawed, non-causal research that the proposed California framework embraces
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