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A Book About Babies
by Joan Brownstein
Support for early childhood goes across party lines. Raising standards and improving access to quality preschool are possible. Here is a source of information to help get the message across. You have to love a book about babies.
Charters: Moving from Problems to Solutions
Fraud, waste and abuse in charter school management is well documented. Choosing effective strategies to encourage legislatures to address solutions is always a challenge.
Two groups, In The Public Interest and the Center for Popular Democracy, have taken a first step. The League will help; find out how.
Virtual or Vanishing Schools?
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The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) released its 2015 report on virtual schools. As usual there is some good news and some bad news. The “good news” is that students taking Algebra I and English courses do not do any worse than students in traditional public schools. What a curious turn of phrase. In the context of the full report, perhaps it is a warning sign.
One thing is clear. It is difficult to obtain the comprehensive, valid data that are needed to evaluate the quality of the online education sector.
Charters: Public, Private, Both: An Auditor’s View
Dave Yost
Can you make a cogent argument about which regulations are needed and which inhibit a flexible, innovative school system? It is not an esoteric topic. With the plethora of examples of charter school fraud, waste and abuse, we know something is not working right. What changes should be made?
Ohio’s Auditor of State, Dave Yost, has been doing some serious thinking. He is concerned about which aspects of charter school operations are subject to public entity law and which relate to laws governing private companies. It makes a difference in what information is subject to public disclosure. The criteria for ethical behavior differ as well. Charters are both public and private. Which set of rules apply?
This piece is not a polemic. It is a thoughtful article by a fiscal conservative who believes in small government. He is concerned about preserving the public interest when contracting with private entities for services like schools and prisons. It is a thorny problem we all need to ponder.
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