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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Obama Team's Advocacy Boosts Charter Momentum Education Week News As an example of what she sees as the challenge, Ms. Allen noted that the Illinois legislation that raises caps also allows charter school teachers to...... Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Interview with Elizabeth Evans, Executive Director of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools Summary of Interview from the Illinois Radio Network... Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Take caps off charter schools Boston Globe Both the proposals by Flaherty and Yoon seem more in keeping with Duncan's call for decisive action on charter school caps. The Patrick administration is...... Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Charter life -- or death? Chicago Tribune Editorial It got lost a bit in the end-of-session shuffle, but the Illinois legislature just passed some extremely significant legislation on charter schools.... Monday, June 08, 2009 Ed secretary: judge teachers on how students do Associated Press Duncan has criticized states where lawmakers have resisted charter schools. Illinois is among 26 states that limit the number of charter schools,...... Thursday, June 04, 2009 Illinois Legislature Doubles the Number of Charter Schools NAPCS blog On the recent legislative victory... Thursday, June 04, 2009 Stimulus cash aids Northwestern mentoring program Chicago Tribune It will help the university continue a mentoring program with Chicago's Young Women's Leadership Charter School. The students will work in a lab where Dr...... Wednesday, June 03, 2009 Charter School WEEK News 25 Central Illinois The choice of where to send your children to school can be a big one for families. Sometimes it can determine where you decide to settle or how much you pay in taxes, but what if you had another choice? That's exactly what the District 150 superintendent wants, and so do local business leaders.... Wednesday, June 03, 2009 More Charter Schools Allowed Under New Law The Huffington Post (re-hash of Chi-Town Daily News article) Advocates for charter schools [Tuesday] celebrated legislation that would allow for 120 charter schools in Illinois, 40 of them in Chicago.... Wednesday, June 03, 2009 New Legislation Could Bring More Charter Schools to Chicago WBEZ Roughly $100 billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money is slated for education. And about $5 billion of that will be up for grabs for applicant states to bring new ideas that might help struggling students. State law caps the number of Illinois charters at six, but legislation passed by the General Assembly over the weekend could boost that number and change how charters wor... Wednesday, June 03, 2009 Illinois Lawmakers Pave Way For Expansion of Charter Schools District Administration (Reprint of yesterday's Tribune article) Under the legislation, Chicago would be allowed 45 new charter schools, five of which would be reserved for schools enrolling high school dropouts, and 15 additional charters would be allotted for the rest of the state.... Tuesday, June 02, 2009 Area charter schools see honors for their programming Medill Reports Charter school supporters, students and leaders gathered at the Garfield Park Conservatory on Tuesday to celebrate innovative programming at five Chicago charters. Ruiz congratulated the audience on the bill's passage and stressed the importance of having charter schools in Illinois to provide alternatives in education...... Friday, May 29, 2009 The charter school alternative The Week With more than 1.4 million students attending charter schools and 426 new charters opening this school year, the charter movement is gaining momentum. Are small, independent schools the future of publicly financed education?... Friday, May 22, 2009 Temptati, linguae Latinae discipuli funguntur sine erroribus Chicago Tribune UIC College Prep, a new charter school in Chicago, will offer Latin next school year. It will be the school's first foreign-language offering,...... Friday, May 22, 2009 Lab School whiz-kids tap into parents' skills for Web start-up Chicago Maroon While most seventh-graders spent their week-long spring break playing computer games, University of Chicago Laboratory School seventh-graders Sam Kaplan and Louie Harboe used that time to design their own iPhone program....
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