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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

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She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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What happens when teachers run the school

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Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

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19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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Deadlines, endless forms, constant college prep pressure: Is the finish line in sight?

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Demand will likely grow because the supply will not: Voters in Massachusetts overwhelming rejected a ballot question last month to expand charter schools (62 percent rejected it; 38 percent supported it). Goals: To get into a school I am excited about and have the financial support to actually attend; to study sociology.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

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Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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Senate committee approves Betsy DeVos, “Thoughtless proponent of the privatization of American education”

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Her oral confirmation testimony earlier this month was a cringe-worthy performance, featuring guns vs. grizzlies and her refusal to commit to the same accountability standards for charter and private schools as are in place for traditional public schools that receive taxpayer funds. Pallas weighs in.