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Category Archives: District Performance
D.C. Defaults
Somewhat ironically, after my post yesterday about the academic success in the DC school system, it seems that their financials are a particular mess. The District missed a $103 million payment due to its 60 charter schools this morning, triggering serious cash flow … Continue reading
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Results from D.C.
DC is so far ahead of pretty much every other city in their school reform efforts, their results bear watching. Here is an early indication of how they are doing: D.C. public school students continue to improve their reading and math … Continue reading
What can turn DPS around?
DPS Board Vice-President Michelle Moss quoted in Monday’s Denver Post article: “We are turning to charter schools and innovation schools, but even if we serve 10,000 more kids in charters, the vast majority are still in Denver schools that are dramatically … Continue reading
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Race to the bottom
In the reflection of Obama’s speech comes a strong editorial from the NY Times with a clear explanation of why national standards are important: The nation has a patchwork of standards that vary widely from state to state and a system under … Continue reading
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Half-pregnant reform
An excellent article in the Washington Post describing the efforts in Boston around both charter and district-led pilot schools: [Boston] has unleashed imaginative teachers to run both independent charter schools and semi-independent “pilot” schools, with much of the rest of the country … Continue reading
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The DPS supt.: person or process?
Media reports discuss the current “choice” for DPS superintendent, but that is a misnomer. There is no existing choice between qualified candidates. The alternative here is between a person and a process. There are two different paths. One of them is fraught … Continue reading
Competition and Choice
Denver Public Schools’ recent decision to have different schools share buildings provoked fearful cries of “increased competition” among some neighborhood advocates. But these objections blur the important distinction between competition and choice. While unfettered competition could well have a negative … Continue reading
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