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School Funding

Let’s Stop Debating and Make Sure That Low-Income Students Get Equitable Funding

A couple of weeks ago, we published a piece on Money and Schools from blogger Dmitri Melhorn, below Ben Spielberg has written a response to criticisms of school funding. On average, students from...

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Poverty

I Believe in Chicago Public Schools, But They Deserve a Fair Shake

Libby Elementary stands less than a mile away from my home on Chicago’s Southwest Side. The shocking fact about Libby isn’t its high poverty or intense concentration of students of color—it’s the 41...

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Charter Schools

It’s Time to Give Charter Schools Equitable Funding

This year’s National Charter Schools Week is an especially poignant celebration as many states are reaching 20th and 25th anniversaries of their charter school laws (our state of Connecticut...

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Charter Schools

¡Creemos en opciónes escolares! We Believe in School Choice!

Julio Fuentes, president and CEO of Hispanic CREO (Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options), was the keynote speaker last Thursday at Charter Awareness Day in Hartford, Connecticut,...

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Poverty

Look, I'm Not the Enemy But Investing in Education Without Accountability Just Doesn't Work

My recent visit to the Network for Public Education’s annual conference in North Carolina has yielded much fruit. In addition to an extended blog conversation with Peter Greene on the topic of...

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School Funding

Will We Still Do Right by Kids When the Money Runs Out?

Over the last couple of decades we have seen a parade of federal education reforms— No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, the Every Student Succeeds Act, among others—followed by a circuitous parade...

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