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Constitution Day Events Raise Awareness Of U.s. Government - Charleston Daily Mail
washington - schools across the country are mobilizing today to mark the 1787 signing of the charter that established the federal government. so is constitution day a genuine teaching moment with lasting impact, or a gimmick with no afterlife? it's ...
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charter Schools' Success Puts Them In Campaign Spotlight
kia young tate, the 30-something ph.d. in charge of star academy in frayser, whoops and cheers like the children she teaches when she thinks what she could do with more money. democratic presidential nominee barack obama lit the possibility recently when he promised to double funding for charter schools.
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Charter, Houlihan’s, Vh1 Donate $600k In Instruments To Schools
vh1 save the music foundation, charter communications and houlihan's restaurant will present $600,000 worth of musical instruments to st. louis public schools on thursday.
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Hempstead Charter School Located Next To Topless Bar - Newsday
an establishment with a web site advertising the "absolute best" in topless entertainment, the taste of honey bar in downtown hempstead would hardly rate as an ideal neighbor for grade-schoolers. so red-faced state officials were scrambling to review ...
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Charter Probe Expands To Land Deals - Philadelphia Inquirer
the federal criminal probe of former top administrators at philadelphia academy charter school has expanded to land deals, including one involving another northeast philadelphia charter school. investigators are interested in the methods that charter ...
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Datadirector(tm) Choice Of California charter Schools
riverside publishing, a subsidiary of houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company and a leader in comprehensive educational standards-based assessment, today announced that the california charter schools association will use its online data and assessment management solution datadirector as the core technology behind zoom!
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Charter Makes 'em Smarter
they're a-ok. half of the city's 42 rated charter schools were handed an a yesterday - including three that made it into the top five schools overall. it was a significantly higher proportion of a's than the 37.3 percent of traditional public...
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Charter School Election Requires Sept. 30 Runoff - Morning News
rogers -- patrons of the benton county school of the arts won't know until sept. 30 who will take two school board seats. the school held elections for the two seats tuesday. each parent with a child attending the open enrollment charter school in ...
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School Bus Service Reduction Plan Faces Tweaks - Atlanta Journal Constitution
as parents tuesday night packed a meeting to protest dekalb county’s proposal to stop busing students beyond their neighborhood schools, superintendent crawford lewis admitted he will likely have to compromise to see the plan through. “i don’t ...
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16 Public charter Schools In Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio And ...
washington, sept. 12 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ -- sixteen public charter schools in nine states have been honored as no child left behind - blue ribbon schools by the u.s. department of education, the national alliance for public charter schools announced today.
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Charter Sponsor Wants Strickland To Build Up System
as gov. strickland wraps up his 12-city education tour, the thomas b. fordham institute, a research group that sponsors several charter schools in ohio, has some advice for improving schools.
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Asked For Policy Specifics, Palin Offers Generalities - Cbs News
(grand rapids, mich.) standing beside john mccain at her first town hall meeting since being named to the republican ticket, sarah palin was asked what specific skills she would bring to the white house to “mitigate that concern” of her perceived ...
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274 Kids Leave City Schools For Charters - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
two hundred seventy-four students left fort wayne community schools this year to attend one of the city’s three charter schools, contributing to the public school district’s decreased enrollment over last year. fort wayne community schools ...
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274 Kids Leave City Schools For Charters
two hundred seventy-four students left fort wayne community schools this year to attend one of the city’s three charter schools, contributing to the public school district’s decreased enrollment over last year. photo caption: nita auer teaches health to sophomores at north side high school. fwcs enrollment is down this year. photo by dean musser jr. | the journal gazette
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No New charter Schools Can Open In City
springfield city schools' upgrade on the state report card for the 2007-08 school year has precluded any new charter schools from opening in the city, including one that announced last year plans to open this fall.
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9 N.j. Schools Awarded Blue Ribbon Designation - Bridgeton News
matt rainey/the star-ledger eighth-graders in claudio bernal's algebra class work on problems at the board yesterday at robert treat academy charter school in newark. the school is one of nine in new jersey named a blue ribbon school. for nine years ...
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Charters Seek Lease Aid - New York Post
a group of charter-school supporters is urging state officials to fund charter-school buildings in the same way they do traditional public schools. not only are charter schools funded about 8 percent less per pupil, according to the groups, but they ...
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To Remain Open, Catholic Schools Become Charters
in many cities, catholic schools are struggling financially and many are being forced to close. in washington, d.c., the archdiocese and city officials came up with an idea to keep seven religious schools open: convert them to public charter schools.
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charter Schools Software Spreads To D.c.
central michigan university center for charter schools' oversight software will now spread to 82 charters in washington, d.c. authorizer oversight information system (aois) is a communicative device designed by cmu and is used to supply supervision to cmu's authorized charters, reducing their administrative workload, said special adviser of external relations scott herbert ray iii.
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Elementry, Middle Schools Score Good Grades - New York Post
nearly 94 percent of the city's elementary and middle schools earned an a, b or c on the second annual school report cards. just 50 out of 1040 schools were rated a d -- down from 88 schools last year -- while the number of f-rated schools dropped by ...
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