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
State replaces 3 dozen schools on ‘worst’ list
- 03-11-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess1`
The State Board of Education will be asked today to approve a list of 188 failing schools that is significantly different from those that the State Department of Education proposed on Monday. Education officials have replaced 37 middle and high schools from the original list (see end of this post or this link for the revised list). Because of faulty methodology, many of those schools were higher performing that the schools that have taken their place. Whether the state has finally got it right is another matter. The federal government has ordered the state to select 5 percent of the “persistently lowest-performing” schools that will be eligible for substantial school improvement money in return for swallowing strong medicine. (more...)
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