History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Failing schools list is final
- 03-13-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The list is in and final. After a four-hour hearing on Thursday, the State Board of Education unanimously approved the revised list of 188 failing schools (see here, here and here) that the Department of Education staff proposed. But not before a line of superintendents and others criticized the process, timing and content of the lists. The schools on the list are supposed to comprise the 5 percent of “persistently lowest performing schools” in need of drastic intervention. They’ll be eligible to apply for federal School Improvement Grants of between $150,000 and $6 million over the next three years. (more...)
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