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A total of 531 students transferred to better-performing public schools and more than 200 were able to receive tutoring services during 2003-04 as a result of help provided by Project CREO, according to a February 2005 update from Hispanic CREO, the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options. Initiated in the fall ...

High-tech security will soon help protect an already secure environment at The Governor French Academy, a small, private college-preparatory school in Belleville, Illinois. Founded in 1983, the K-12 school has always offered a secure environment for students, but school officials are now taking that security into the twenty ...

During his inaugural address on January 25, President George W. Bush made clear his intent to push for continuing reform of the nation’s education system, and in particular to extend reform into the nation’s high schools. With freedom as the major theme of the address, Bush spoke of reforming great institutions to meet ...

Detroit Public Schools is currently operating under a five-year reform plan implemented by the Michigan legislature in March 1999. Although the measure provides that the mayor of the city appoints six of the seven board members, it is commonly referred to as a “state takeover” because it temporarily removed Detroiters’ ability ...

Researchers Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann of the CESifo Economic Research Organization in Munich, a joint project of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, analyzed test performance and background data from the 2000 PISA study and found that students using ...

In his first few months as the new superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Rudolph F. “Rudy” Crew negotiated a new contract with the local teacher union, revised the district’s budget process, eliminated more than 700 noninstructional positions, established a School Improvement Zone to take control of 39 chronically ...

PISA 2003 Mean Scores in Mathematics OECD Countries Finland 544 Korea 542 Netherlands 538 Japan 534 Canada 532 Belgium 529 Switzerland 527 Australia 524 New Zealand 523 Czech Republic 516 Iceland 515 Denmark 514 France 511 Sweden 509 Austria 506 Germany 503 Ireland 503 Slovak Republic 498 Norway 495 ...

"Stop worrying about whether school choice proposals are radical--worry about whether they are radical enough." Clint Bolick, president Alliance for School Choice "When legislators try to regulate homeschoolers, it's like hitting a hornets' nest." Scott Somerville, staff attorney Home School Legal Defense Association "[Many ...

When Hispanic CREO convened its second annual conference, "Activate the Latino Voice," on October 21, 2004 in Westminster, Colorado, the 400 attendees were ready to celebrate the many achievements the organization had made during the previous year. Yet throughout the three days of conference sessions that followed, the aim ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school vouchers are constitutional in 2002, grassroots activists around the country have been organizing to support passage of school choice programs. Legislatures passed statewide programs in Florida and Colorado, and other states are expected to follow their lead. Some 35 cities have privately ...

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A major school reform organization has condemned government-run textbook adoption for generating dumbed-down texts that harm students and schools across the nation, even though the process is used in only 21 of the 50 states. The report recommends devolving decisions about textbook purchases to individual schools, districts, and ...

Education is the number one civil rights issue for blacks in the twenty-first century because, 50 years after the Brown decision declared "separate but equal" public education to be unconstitutional, both blacks and Hispanics suffer disproportionately from being educated poorly, contended Lee Walker, president of The New Coalition ...

In October, The Heritage Foundation launched its new school choice Web site, available at http://www.heritage.org/schoolchoice . The site is Heritage's one-stop shop for information on parental choice in education, including commentary, analysis, research, contacts, book reviews, and the latest news. Instead of publishing a book this ...

An independent evaluation of Teach for America (TFA) has confirmed the value of placing bright, liberally educated college graduates as teachers in some of the nation's most troubled elementary and secondary schools. The study, by the respected research firm Mathematica Policy Research, was among several recent contributions ...

Troubled by the large number of low-performing public schools serving Hispanic students in Texas, an estimated 2,000 Hispanic parents and children from Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio rallied at the state capitol in Austin on May 15 to draw attention to their concerns. They called on lawmakers to reform ...

By a strong bipartisan margin, the Senate on May 13 passed its version of reforms to the nation's special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The House passed its version of IDEA reauthorization 12 months ago, with 34 Democrats voting in support of the bill. Since the House and Senate ...

When it takes an average of six years to build a new public school in California, what industrialist David L. Brennan did eight years ago in Cleveland borders on the miraculous in the slow-moving world of public education. When Brennan discovered, two weeks before school started, that some 360 initial voucher applicants ...

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Although he lived in Tampa, Florida, venture capital entrepreneur John F. Kirtley got his introduction to education reform in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood. During the 1990s, his frequent business trips to Wall Street had brought him into contact with fellow finance executive Peter Flanigan, who had established a philanthropic ...