Posts Tagged ‘charter schools’
DC Shuttle: Congress to Update No Child Left Behind?
by The New England Council
September 19, 2011
On Tuesday, the House voted 365-54 to pass the latest in a series of bills to update the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law. This latest legislation (H.R. 2218) aims to establish more charter schools in order to increase student achievement around the country. Currently, the national charter school program provides funding for states ...
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Are We Ready for Charter Colleges?
by Jane Sjogren and James Fay
June 4, 2010
Editor’s Note: The Summer 2000 issue of Connection, NEJHE’s predecessor, included a series of pieces headlined “Charter Colleges: Evolution of a Plan,” exploring whether public colleges could operate more efficiently and produce higher quality educational results if they were freed from the controls imposed by state bureaucracies.
Community colleges are under increasing pressure today from a ...
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