In July the Pioneer Institute released a study praising AppleTree Early Learning Centers, based in the District of Columbia, and urging states around the country
Category: Charter Schools
Five-year budgets for consistency key to school improvement
Robert White, candidate for DC Council at-large joined the Education Town Hall to discuss his views on where DC schools are now, what needs changing,
Rocketship: Business Product or Educational Enterprise?
“DC is being used as an experimental model for something that is failing elsewhere,” says Gordon Lafer, associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor
Parents Boycott Newark Schools
Thursday, 9/4, was the first day of the new academic year for Newark (NJ) Public Schools, now implementing the controversial One Newark Plan, which combines
DC Council Candidate Eric J. Jones Talks Education
“We cannot evaluate mayoral control [of District of Columbia schools], because we don’t know what it was supposed to do,” Eric J. Jones, candidate for
DC’s Mayoral Race, Student Boundary Assignments, and DC High Schools
Carol Schwartz, candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia, told the Education Town Hall that she would consider adjusting mayoral control of DC public
Education Town Hall Forum 