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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Statement on the Nomination of Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne...

MarketWatch
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (www.publiccharters.org) is the national nonprofit organization committed to advancing the charter school......


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Making the case for better school choice in Chicago

Catalyst Chicago
LTE by Dea Meyer. To date, 51 new charter or contract public schools have been created in Chicago as a result of Renaissance 2010 (43 of these schools are charter public......


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What Arne Duncan means to charter schools

Christian Science Monitor
President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of Education - Chicago school head Arne Duncan - is known......


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Duncan's track record

Catalyst Chicago
[See Challenges of Choice] The effort has caused tension on the labor front, as the bulk of new schools are run by charter or other education management......


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Schools Chief From Chicago Is Obama's Choice for Education

New York Times
"He is the kind of guy who can work with all sorts of people with different viewpoints, and we like his work in Chicago with charter schools," Mr. Williams......


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

MEET ARNE DUNCAN, OBAMA'S EDUCATION PICK.

Tapped
With the Democratic Party embroiled in internal debate over public school reform, it is very much like Barack Obama to tap Chicago public schools CEO Arne......


Friday, December 12, 2008

Study: College success starts early

Tribune
The findings reinforce a recent study of Chicago Public Schools students. The University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research looked at the correlation......


Friday, December 12, 2008

Community must demand high-quality schools

Catalyst
LTE from Phyllis Lockett of the Renaissance Schools Fund...


Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Obama and schoolkids

Chicago Tribune (editorial)
We urge him to select a bold agent of change—even if doing so costs Chicago Public Schools the district's reform-minded CEO, Arne Duncan....


Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Launches New Initiative to...

PR Newswire
Foundation Awards $69 Million in Initial Grants to Help More Young People Access and Complete a Postsecondary Degree. YouthBuild McLean County Charter School one of the grant recipients....


Monday, December 08, 2008

First Rockford Charter School Proposal

WIFR - Rockford
Here's what the school could offer our kids. Representatives from Comped - a group of Chicago educators, administrators and consultants - made their case to ...
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

North Chicago leads high schools for attendance bragging rights

Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA
Ava Kohn, a fourth-grader at Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake, was one of the five lucky students with perfect attendance in October who won a......


Saturday, December 06, 2008

2 Chicago Public Schools Make Top 100 H.S. List

Chicago News
Northside College Prep and Payton College Prep -- have made the latest list of America's 100 Best High Schools, based on a report released......


Thursday, December 04, 2008

Arne Duncan, Don't Leave us Behind

Elizabeth Evans, the executive director of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, seems to be a casting a "no" vote for Arne Duncan as ed secretary. Her plea for Duncan to stay in Chicago illustrates that as Obama picks the......


Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Charter schools provide choice

Peoria Times Observer
It was not until 1996 that the Illinois General Assembly passed a charter school law. Illinois law limits the number of charter schools across the state to 60 - 30 allowed in Chicago, 15 in the suburbs and 15 downstate...
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