June 26, 2019
Wall Street JournalJune 25, 2019 Wall Street Journal has words for the Mayor and advice for Congress The Washington, D.C. City Council on Wednesday is meeting to discuss charter schools. Let’s hope someone asks Mayor Muriel Bowser why her administration is denying space to charters—at the same time it plans to spend millions to refurbish […]
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June 21, 2019
It’s been a very busy week for CER, and with a hat tip to Clint Eastwood we send along examples of the good, the bad and the ugly from this week’s news. Jeanne Allen’s latest piece in Forbes highlights the good – in fact the very good. Alpha Academy in Fayetteville, North Carolina is innovating education […]
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June 3, 2019
Innovation spurred by charter schools has improved student outcomes, created more personalized and customized learning environments for students, and driven innovation in traditional schools that would have otherwise not occurred. Read more in this essay featuring Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of CER and Nina Rees, the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter […]
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May 18, 2019
Dear Charter School Friends, What a crazy thing – the Friday of National Charter Schools Week, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says that as president he will put an end to charter schools. As my mother would have said, “the nerve!” Sanders’ comments – yelling about transparency (which of course exists) or regulation (which charters have […]
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May 13, 2019
by Jeanne AllenFoundation for Florida’s FutureMay 13, 2019 Nearly 25 years ago, I had the opportunity to witness the beginnings of historic education reform in Florida. In 1995, Jeb Bush, who would be governor a few years later, was laying the groundwork for an educational renaissance in Florida and for the nation. On the […]
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May 8, 2019
by Jeanne AllenForbesMay 8, 2019 America is the land of innovation, leading the world in technology, art and industry — yet we still have a 20th-century educational system. Our schools are stifled by regulatory overload, making it difficult to bring needed change to outdated ways of doing things. Fortunately for our nation’s children, enterprising individuals […]
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May 6, 2019
by Jeanne AllenThe Post and CourierMay 6, 2019 Last week, teachers called out of school to protest at the South Carolina Statehouse — a fitting final act to a school year already defined by teacher strikes across the nation. Earlier in the year, teachers went on strike in Los Angeles, Denver, West Virginia and […]
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April 30, 2019
The results of the National 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment, focused on critical STEM, skills, are more hopeful than in prior years, but the results remain disappointing. The test of more than 15,000 8th grade students in almost 600 schools across the country shows that fewer than 50% are proficient. The test not […]
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April 25, 2019
by Jeanne AllenForbesApril 25, 2019 Felicity Huffman and 13 other defendants recently agreed to plead guilty to charges relating to the “Operation Varsity Blues” case, the recently uncovered college cheating scandal. Dozens of “elites” — folks at the top of our entertainment, finance and education systems — were implicated in a large-scale bribery scheme to […]
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