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"We have got to fly this plane as we fix it"
The title of this article comes from a comment made by my friend Kevin Chavous who appeared on the PBS NewsHour April 1st with National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel to discuss the Indiana Supreme Court decision...
Read moreSB 213 Part 2: Special interests come to the party
As an update on the huge school finance reform bill, an amendment was added to the bill that confounds charter school advocates in many ways. A handful of legislators, trying to protect their districts, added an amendment that would...
Read moreTwo Rivers students' proposal included in Mayor Gray's budget
We could look at the Fiscal Year 2014 budget that the Mayor proposed yesterday and be desperately disappointed. After all it does nothing to correct the funding inequity between charters and the traditional school system. The charter facility...
Read more2013 Public Education Master Facilities Plan destine for recycling bin
Well it finally arrived. The Master Facilities Plan that was promised to us by the Deputy Mayor of Education’s office to be completed by January was released yesterday, and as we could have predicted it offers nothing...
Read moreSB213 and charter schools: What's in it for us? (or not in it)
SB 213 has been all over the news lately. This bill would make the biggest change to Colorado school finance since the 1994 act that the state currently uses to determine the amount of funding for public schools along with...
Read moreDCPS should have to pay rent using the $3,000 per pupil facility allotment
.I read with interest yesterday’s article by the Washington Post’s Emma Brown about the District of Columbia spending $120 million to replace Ballou Senior High School in Anacostia. The reporter points out that “Fewer...
Read moreMayoral candidate Bowser should support giving closed DCPS sites to charters
In today's Washington Post Mike Debonis has an in depth interview with Councilwoman Muriel Bowser who last weekend announced that she is running for D.C. Mayor. I, of course, was most interested in what she had...
Read moreThe FOCUS Gala honoring Malcolm Peabody
Last Thursday evening my wife and I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Friends of Choice in Urban Schools annual gala which this year honored its founder and board chair Malcolm Peabody. Mr. Peabody is retiring from his...
Read moreChair of E.L. Haynes Board named Deputy Mayor of Education
Yesterday, the Washington Post's Emma Brown revealed that D.C. Mayor Gray has named Abigail Smith, the board chair of E.L. Haynes Public Charter School as his choice to succeed De'Shawn Wright as his Deputy...
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