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New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The 23 - year - old Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, won three Grammys, struck a deal with Apple Music for $ 500,000, and pledged to donate a million dollars to Chicago Public Schools — all in the last month.

Patrick Chovanec, chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management and adjunct professor at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, agrees there is a real issue with China.

And yet, as important as the public schools have been, the real school of republican virtue in America, as Alexis de Tocqueville saw with such masterful clarity, was the church.

At Kendall College, our School of Culinary Arts runs an open - to - the - public fine - dining restaurant to provide our students with real - life experience.

The real issue here, imo, is that they want to do this with 18 different dairy products, to include milk in public schools.

I recently read with interest that Real Food for Kids — Montgomery (RFKM), a parent group in the Montgomery County (MD) Public School system, has persuaded the district to eliminate Baked Doritos and Baked Cheetos from items sold to students a la carte.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

I recently read with interest that Real Food for Kids - Montgomery (RFKM), a parent group in the Montgomery County (MD) Public School system, has persuaded the district to eliminate Baked Doritos and Baked Cheetos from items sold to students a la... [Continue reading]

«Mr. Carranza has earned a reputation for collaboration with teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school — which The Post revealed as plagued by poor discipline and coverups — where a student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

«This was a real victory for education and the public schools,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew, who was working closely with legislators and the governor's office for weeks.

Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school where one student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Amit Seru, together with Benjamin J. Key of UChicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Tomasz Piskorski of the Columbia Business School and Vincent Yao of Fannie Mae authored «Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets and the Real Economy,» which is available at the Social Science Research Network.

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

We needed to come up with an assessment idea that was accurate and authentic, and it had to provide meaningful data to real world public school educators.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The principal of a traditional public school is not charged with coaxing capital funds out of voters, scoping out real estate, or overseeing construction.

He consulted for the Education Commission of the States (ECS) in its 1999 report, Governing America's Schools: Changing the Rules, which described a «public schools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficientSchools: Changing the Rules, which described a «public schools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficientschools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficient space.

MC2 (Metropolitan Cleveland Consortium) STEM High School is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiSchool is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experischool in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

The school was created through a public - private partnership among a number of organizations (PDF), with the intention of providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

«I do want to thank you for acknowledging the situation in Albany, but going to the heart of what's real, we have 10 charter schools in Albany with a total public school population of 10,500 students.

Stating that allowing parents to use their 529 savings for K - 12 tuition «will erode the tax base that funds public schools» when it will benefit many middle class New Yorkers already taking a 2018 hit with lost state and local deduction opportunities; when the real world state budget impact is demonstrably negligible; and in a state that already spends more per public school pupil than any other — is simply poor public education.

That's real money over a period of five years if we're serious in pushing it through to the public school system, dealing with issues of juvenile crime, the lack of structure, the whole panoply of social issues.

Innovative governance models with real accountability can be applied to traditional public schools.

We're often accused of being hostile to the regular public - school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.

A: Having a real - time connection with the schools and, interestingly, this year I went through the whole college selection with my oldest daughter, who is now a college freshman, and [I] still obviously have a public school child, who is now in 8th...

· Tennessee PTA each year stands against vouchers — Parents should be empowered with real choices, if the integrity of public schools remains intact.

When you are friends with those who dislike public education and career teachers, and want to see an end to both, how big of a real supporter of public schools and teachers can you be?

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

In fact, what little funding Governor Malloy has provided for Connecticut public schools over the past three years has come with such extensive strings that it failed to provide local towns with real or meaningful options.

Using real - life examples of OML violations in Arizona public schools, this interactive session will ensure participants are well - equipped to run quality meetings that are compliant with state law.

The two teamed up with a group of our PhD students as well as PhD students from the University of Colorado - Boulder in order to tackle what they have deemed the 50 Myths and Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education.

The backers of this lawsuit include a «who's who» of the billionaire boys club and their front groups whose real agendas have nothing to do with protecting students, but are really about privatizing public schools.

«We need real change in our schools,» Tuck said, adding that he's worked extensively with both charter and traditional public schools.

We have a tendency to be apocalyptic in times of crisis — particularly when it comes to school funding — and the public frequently accuses us of crying wolf, but the current crisis that local districts in Connecticut are trying to deal with is very real.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

«Unless it includes the test results of every student in the private school, it will not be a true reflection of their success nor a real comparison with the public and charter schools,» Kussow said.

The only real solution to the problem is to utterly eliminate the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and return to public control of public money spent in public schools with public accountability.

These challenges, while not unique to public charter schools, are clear indicators that real barriers exist to assure the equitable participation in and completion of a quality education for students with disabilities in charter schools.

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

«This will mean a real reduction in the public service portfolio,» he said, adding that it was likely to hit areas with few or no academies hardest as the money would not be replaced via individual school budgets.

Bill Gates apparently doesn't want funding to go towards real public schools staffed by professional career teachers either, since the foundation met with CREEED as noted at the top of this post.

Together with revenue from a possible settlement of the Prop 301 lawsuit, there is potential for a real influx of much - needed funding for Arizona public schools, both charter and district.