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Charter challenge in the Hoosier State... Milwaukee voucher students make the grade... A union blockade in Brooklyn... Read more in this week's Newswire.
Snow Days
 Cooped up for the weekend? Rather not shovel? Learn what you can do to improve your child's education or see how your state's charter law stacks up to the competition.
Measuring Success
The Administration's NCLB plan proposes to scrap the only meaningful approach to accountability for federal funds that this country has ever had. How exactly does one measure success in the absence of tests? Read more on Politico's Arena.
On the Air
 A Rhode Island school district partners with a local charter school in order to raise reading proficiency & 15,000 kids on waiting lists for Utah charter schools represents a national trend.
Hot Off the Press! Today's Education Reform Headlines
 Milwaukee's voucher program...At-risk students transition to college...Pa. bill would expand overhaul of schools and more in Today's Daily Headlines.
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Obama Plan Calls for Education-Funding Increase
By Neil King, Jr.,
The Wall Street Journal,
February 1,2010
Under the proposed new rules, states and school districts will be judged, among other things, on whether they are promoting higher testing standards and enforcing teacher accountability. Those that aren't will lose out.
We Need More Charter Schools
By Christopher Peace,
Richmond Times-Dispatch,
Richmond, VA,
January 31,2010
Unfortunately, Virginia laws still frustrate implementation -- much less expansion -- and prevent investment from even the private sector to encourage charter schools, which has occurred in places such as the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City. Nearly 100 percent of all charter schools are located in friendlier states. Virginia was ranked the second weakest state for charters in the nation, earning an F in a recent report by The Center for Education Reform.
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