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Broader, Bolder Should Have Done Better Homework

Eric Lerum | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: Education, Dcps, Education Policy, School Enrollment, Teachers, Pre-K, Education Reform, Naep, School Closings, Politics News
Eric Lerum

Having worked directly on the education reforms implemented in D.C. over the past several years, I read with interest a recently released national report that purports to examine the impacts of various education reforms in three of the nation's largest cities.

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Texas School Finance Case To Focus On Demographics Shift

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Education News, Video, Education: Texas, Budget Cuts, School Enrollment, School Funding, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Texas School Funding, Greg Abbott, School Budgets, Home News

AUSTIN, Texas — A boom in Texas' Hispanic population, coupled with starkly higher poverty rates for minorities statewide, could so hurt future h...

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600 Texas School Districts Sue State For 'Unconstitutional' Funding

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Video, School Enrollment, School Funding, Attorney General Greg Abbott, School Budget Cuts, Texas School Funding, Greg Abbott, Texas Schools, School Budgets, Home News

AUSTIN, Texas — Attorneys representing around 600 school districts argued Monday that Texas' school financing system is so "hopelessly broken" t...

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School Now Run By Teachers, Union, Had Turbulent History

| Melissa Bailey | Posted 09.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Erik Good, New Haven Independent, School Turnaround, Connecticut Schools, School Enrollment, High School in the Community, Turnaround Schools, Students With Special Needs, Education Reform, Teachers, New Haven Schools, Video, Home News

This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent. They set out to invent a new kind of school. They created a national model—then failed ...

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Cost Of Educating Students With Special Needs Disproportionately Left To Traditional Public Schools

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 08.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Pennsylvania Schools, Los Angeles Schools, School Enrollment, Ohio Schools, Special Needs Kids, Students With Special Needs, Special Needs Children, Partnership to Uplift Communities, Special Needs Students, Special Education, Charter Schools, Children With Special Needs, Office of Civil Rights, California Schools, School Budgets, Video, Home News

LOS ANGELES -- The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students in...

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'Back-To-School' By The Numbers: Americans Spent $7.7 Billion Last August

Posted 08.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Census Bureau, Parents-Back-to-School, US Census Bureau, School Enrollment, Back to School Shopping, Going Back to School, Slideexpand, Back to School Supplies, Back-to-School Statistics, College Enrollment, Back to School, Video, Home News

The return to school means, among other things, the return to math class and all the calculations, facts and figures that go with it. Perhaps in antic...

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Marketing, Video Game Incentives Help Boost Catholic Schools Enrollment

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 07.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Los Angeles Schools, Catholic School Enrollment, Our Lady of Lourdes School, School Enrollment, California Schools, School Marketing, Roman Catholic Schools, Catholic Schools, Video, Home News

LOS ANGELES -- After 97 years, Our Lady of Lourdes School was closing – enrollment had dwindled to just 35 children last year at what was once o...

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Camping Out For Kindergarten?

Posted 03.13.2012 | Parents
Read More: Lincoln Corssing Elementary, Video, Lincoln Crossing Elementary School, School Enrollment, Registering for Kindergarten, Camping for Kindergarten, Kindergarten Registration, Parents, Kindergarten, Parents News

Would you camp out in front of a school to secure your child a spot in next year's kindergarten class? Dozens of parents did just that when they li...

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48 Philadelphia Catholic Schools To Close, Reorganize

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 03.07.2012 | Home
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PHILADELPHIA — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia plans to shutter about a quarter of its Roman Catholic high schools and close or combine nearly 3...

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Alabama Attorney General Rebuffs Fed's "Express Authority" In School Immigrant Probe

Posted 01.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Luther Strange, Assistant-US-Attorney-General-Thomas-Perez, Alabama Public Schools, Public School Enrollment, Undocumented Immigrants, School Enrollment, Undocumented Students, Equal Access to Public Education, Alabama Schools, Alabama Undocumented Students, US Justice Department, Alabama Immigration, Video, US Department of Justice, Equal Access, Alabama Immigration Law, Thomas Perez, Home News

In the latest of a series of sparring letters between the U.S. Justice Department and Alabama over educational issues surrounding the state's new immi...

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Columbus High Schools Face Closures From Under-Enrollment

The Columbus Dispatch | Jennifer Smith Richards | Posted 12.17.2011 | Home
Read More: Education News, Public Schools, School Under-Enrollment, Education, High Schools, Columbus High Schools, School Enrollment, Columbus Ohio, Ohio Schools, School Closures, Columbus Schools, Columbus Ohio Schools, Schools Closing, Ohio High Schools, Home News

The Columbus school district has closed 40 schools in the past seven years. None was a high school. But after losing thousands of students, some hi...

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Maine School Falls Vastly Short Of Chinese Recruiting Goal After Newspaper Labels School 'Mediocre'

AP | By CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 10.12.2011 | Home
Read More: Maine Schools, Education, Maine High Schools, School Enrollment, Chinese Students, International Students, Chinese Student Recruitment, School Budgets, School Revenue, Maine, Home News

PORTLAND, Maine -- A school district in the deep woods of Maine that sought out Chinese students to help boost its enrollment and its finances fell fa...

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Finding Logical, Not Emotional, Responses To School Closures

Ed Schmidt | Posted 05.30.2011 | Home
Read More: Detroit Schools, School Enrollment, School Closings, Education, School Facilities, Providence Schools, Detroit, School Architecture, Rhode Island, Michigan, Providence, Home News
Ed Schmidt

As Bob Dylan never said, "the demographics, they are a' changing." What does that mean for schools? What is the right number for how many schools a community needs, or can afford?

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Church Leaders Look To Halt Decline In Catholic School Enrollments

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religion News, Parochial Schools, Charter Schools, Catholicism, School Enrollment, Private Schools, New Orleans Archdiocese, Christianity, Catholic University, Hurricane Katrina, New York Archdiocese, Catholic Schools, Religion News

By Barri Bronston Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS -- Not much keeps Archbishop Gregory Aymond up at night. But one thing does make him toss and tur...

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