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Open Enrollment Stampede
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Last updated: Thursday - December 3, 2009 On Tuesday, Dec. 1st, the Boulder Valley School District (CO) went online with an open enrollment system. Parents could login and request a school out of their assigned attendance area for their child. Within hours the system crashed due to heavy traffic. The BVSD is a district with heavy concentration of Hispanics in its eastern regions and heavy concentration of upper middle-class Anglos in the west. On page 178 of Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic... Read Full Story
Open Enrollment Stampede
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Last updated: Thursday - December 3, 2009 On Tuesday, Dec. 1st, the Boulder Valley School District (CO) went online with an open enrollment system. Parents could login and request a school out of their assigned attendance area for their child. Within hours the system crashed due to heavy traffic. The BVSD is a district with heavy concentration of Hispanics in its eastern regions and heavy concentration of upper middle-class Anglos in the west. On page 178 of Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic... Read Full Story
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Last updated: Monday - November 30, 2009 Gerald Wright Comment: Could it be that these low scoring students and their parents did not want to commit to work harder in order to succeed. Arizona Leads the Nation Again: This Time in Hostility Toward Teachers Last updated: Monday - November 23, 2009 On September 4, 2009, the Governor of Arizona signed into law a bill marks a high point in anti-union aggression against the teaching profession. Starting tomorrow, November 24, 2009, the... Read Full Story
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Last updated: Monday - November 30, 2009 Gerald Wright Comment: Could it be that these low scoring students and their parents did not want to commit to work harder in order to succeed. Send a Message to the Author RSS Read Full Story
Arizona Leads the Nation Again: This Time in Hostility Toward Teachers
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Last updated: Monday - November 23, 2009 On September 4, 2009, the Governor of Arizona signed into law a bill marks a high point in anti-union aggression against the teaching profession. Starting tomorrow, November 24, 2009, the following changes to teacher personnel practices will be law in the state of Arizona: 1. School districts are prohibited from using tenure or seniority in making retention decisions. Nor can they use seniority in decisions to reduce force. 2. The requirement is... Read Full Story
Arizona Leads the Nation Again: This Time in Hostility Toward Teachers
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Last updated: Monday - November 23, 2009 On September 4, 2009, the Governor of Arizona signed into law a bill marks a high point in anti-union aggression against the teaching profession. Starting tomorrow, November 24, 2009, the following changes to teacher personnel practices will be law in the state of Arizona: 1. School districts are prohibited from using tenure or seniority in making retention decisions. Nor can they use seniority in decisions to reduce force. 2. The requirement is... Read Full Story
Charter schools in AZ finagling tuition tax credit dollars
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Last updated: Tuesday - September 8, 2009 This article about charter school shinanigans in Arizona by one of the best education reporters in the country is so juicy that I have quoted it in its entirety: _________________________________________ Charter schools tapping into private dollars by Pat Kossan - Sept. 6, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic A half-dozen Arizona public-charter-school operators have found a way to dip into a state tax credit program intended to help parents... Read Full Story
Teachers Leave Charter Schools at High Rates
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Charter schools in AZ finagling tuition tax credit dollars Last updated: Tuesday - September 8, 2009 This article about charter school shinanigans in Arizona by one of the best education reporters in the country is so juicy that I have quoted it in its entirety: _________________________________________ Charter schools tapping into private dollars by Pat Kossan - Sept. 6, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic A half-dozen Arizona public-charter-school operators have found a way to... Read Full Story
Charter schools in AZ finagling tuition tax credit dollars
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Last updated: Tuesday - September 8, 2009 This article about charter school shinanigans in Arizona by one of the best education reporters in the country is so juicy that I have quoted it in its entirety: _________________________________________ Charter schools tapping into private dollars by Pat Kossan - Sept. 6, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic A half-dozen Arizona public-charter-school operators have found a way to dip into a state tax credit program intended to help parents... Read Full Story
Teachers Leave Charter Schools at High Rates
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Last updated: Tuesday - September 8, 2009 David A. Stuit and Thomas M. Smith of Vanderbilt reported at the 2009 AERA meeting their research on teachers leaving charter schools. A teacher in a charter school is more than twice as likely to leave the profession than a teacher in a traditional public school. Stuit and Smith analyzed federal data from the 2003-04 school year on 14,400 teachers from charters and traditional public schools in 16 states. For charter schools, about 25% of the... Read Full Story