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Is Democracy Killing Public Education Reform?

Posted Mon, 01/25/2010 - 17:32 by QPE

It is not a secret that the state of public education in the United States is uneven and too often failing to look after the best interests of students, much less actually educate them.

KIPP Gaston College Preparatory's Seniors Get Mention on Capitol Hill

Posted Sat, 05/16/2009 - 02:44 by QPE

Michael Wotorson, Executive Director of the Campaign for High School Equity, testifies at a hearing regarding America's competitiveness through high school reform on May 12, 2009.

North Carolina Plans to "Intercede" in Halifax County "Academic Genocide"

Posted Sun, 04/26/2009 - 04:51 by QPE

Trying to avoid the business end of Superior Court Judge Howard Manning's gavel in a hearing scheduled for April 29, 2009, Governor Perdue and State education officials have released a plan to, at the least, prop up the Halifax County school system, whose students perform well below state averages. (See News and Observer - April 23, 2009 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1497200.html)

With only 26% of students in grades three though eight reading at grade level, the 4,000 kids in these 14 schools have clearly been lost in the shuffle.

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