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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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:
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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
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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:
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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
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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
