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Race to the Top fails to redirect stream of bad teachers sent to low-income schools

By | 11.18.09 | 10:25 am

A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the TopU.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to…

Chavez charter schools saga draws calls for greater oversight

By | 10.06.09 | 11:51 am

Cesar Chavez Schools Network in Pueblo delivered another chapter in the story of corruption that has been making headlines for months. This week, recently fired executives are seeking severance pay and threatening lawsuits.

Education experts observing the…

Increasing Isolation Threatens Minority Students

By | 09.04.07 | 8:00 am

Last week’s news that Colorado ranked second nationally in the increasing segregation of Latino public school students did not catch Alan Gottlieb off-guard.

“I could not have been less surprised,” said Gottlieb, a vice president with the Public Education…