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For Real Equity: Give Schools the Money Instead of Staffing Positions
November 13, 2009, 12:18pmPreschool Hype: National Security Edition
November 2, 2009, 2:05pmA bipartisan group of retired military officers says without more educational and health investments in children the country will face a growing “national security threat.”
Universal Preschool Isn't the Silver Bullet
Reason.tv video examines the arguments for and against universal pre-K
October 23, 2008Despite the massive $700 billion bailout and record deficits, many are calling on the federal government to spend tens of billions of dollars on a new universal preschool bureaucracy. To make matters worse, according to a new Reason.tv video, those billions would be spent on the same types of programs that have failed to produce better students or lasting gains on standardized tests.
Fighting to Free Kids From One of America's Worst Public Schools
Reason.tv's Drew Carey details the battle to improve Los Angeles' Locke High
February 19, 2008When looking for a symbol that epitomizes the way public schools are failing our kids, look no further than Locke High School in Watts.
Approximately 75 percent of 9th graders entering Locke do not graduate in four years. And less than five percent of Locke students go on to attend four-year colleges.
It's hard to learn when you fear for your life. In the 2003-2004 school year, there were three sex offenses, 17 robberies, 25 batteries, and 11 assaults with a deadly weapon at Locke.
In a new Reason.tv video, Drew Carey tells the story of a group of parents and teachers rising up to free kids from this failing, violent school. Carey chronicles how the school's principal and a majority of Locke's teachers decide they've had enough and revolt against their powerful union and school district in hopes of giving these kids a better education. Over half of the school's tenured teachers signed a petition calling for Locke to be converted into a Green Dot charter school.
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- Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009
Examining the school districts using student-based "backpack" funding to improve results
Lisa Snell
April 30, 2009 - No Choices Left Behind
Competitive Models to Restructure California's Lowest-Performing Schools
Lisa Snell
December 12, 2006 - Analysis of California's Proposition 88
Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute
Lisa Snell
October 18, 2006 - Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten
Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers and Policymakers
Darcy Olsen and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2006 - Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of RAND Corporation's Analysis and the Proposals for California
May 1, 2006 - The Case Against Universal Preschool in California
Lisa Snell
February 22, 2006 - Driving More Money into the Classroom
The Promise of Shared Services
William D. Eggers, Lisa Snell, Robert Wavra and Adrian Moore
October 1, 2005 - California's K-12 Education Primer
Lisa Snell
May 1, 2005 - School Accountability Reforms Only Work With Parental Involvement
Chuck Poochigian
March 1, 2005 - School Violence and No Child Left Behind
Best Practices to Keep Kids Safe
Lisa Snell
January 1, 2005 - Addition and Subtraction
State and Local Regulatory Obstacles to Opening a New Private School
Bahaa Seireg
December 1, 2004 - Special Education Accountability
Structural Reform to Help CA Charter Schools Make the Grade
Lisa Snell
July 1, 2004 - Education Management Organizations
Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation
Guilbert C. Hentschke, Scot Oschman and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2002 - School Vouchers As A Legal Sanction
Lisa Snell
December 1, 2001 - Revenue and Results
How Student Achievement Gains Can Save the Private Education Industry
Lisa Snell
October 1, 2001 - Workplace Charter Schools
Florida Blazes the Trail
Lisa Snell
May 1, 2001 - Response to Bush Education Plan: School Vouchers are Needed to Enforce Bush's Accountability Program
E-Brief 110
Lisa Snell
January 1, 2001 - Private Options to Help Students Read
Lisa Snell
December 1, 2000 - Innovative School Facility Partnerships
Downtown, Airport, and Retail Space
Matthew D. Taylor and Lisa Snell
December 1, 2000 - Remedial Education Reform
Private Alternatives to Traditional Title I
Lisa Snell
March 1, 2000 - Balancing Accountability and Local Control
State Intervention for Financial and Academic Stability
Richard C. Seder
March 1, 2000 - Satellite Charter Schools
Addressing the School Facilities Crunch Through Public Private Partnerships
Richard C. Seder
April 1, 1999 - Pennsylvania School Finance
Out of the Courts, Into the Legislature
Richard C. Seder
October 1, 1998 - Bilingual Education
Reading, Writing & Rhetoric
Richard C. Seder
May 1, 1998 - Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Policy Study 234
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
January 1, 1998 - School Violence Prevention
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
October 1, 1997 - Alternative Teacher Organizations
Evolution of Professional Associations
David W. Kirkpatrick
September 1, 1997 - Charter School Innovations
Keys to Effective Charter Reform
Theodor Rebarber
July 1, 1997 - The Education Innovators
Inspiring Words from Can Do Educators
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1996 - Using Contractors to Cook, Clean, and Drive the Bus
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1996 - Total Costing for School Transportation Service
How the San Diego City Schools Missed the Bus
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1995 - Given the Choice
A Study of the PAVE Program and School Choice in Milwaukee
Janet R. Beales and Richard W. Wahl
January 1, 1995 - Teacher, Inc.
A Private Practice Option for Educators
Janet R. Beales
October 1, 1994 - Doing More with Less
Competitive Contracting for School Support Services
Janet R. Beales
September 1, 1994 - School Voucher Programs in the United States
Implications and Applications for California
Janet R. Beales
February 1, 1994 - Special Education
Expenditures and Obligations
Janet R. Beales
July 1, 1993 - Satellite Schools
The Private Provision of School Infrastructure
Janet R. Beales
January 1, 1993 - Survey of Education Vouchers and Their Budgetary Impact on California
Janet R. Beales
August 1, 1992 - Public-Private Partnerships
The Private Sector and Innovation in Education
Anna David
July 1, 1992
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- Preschool Hype: National Security Edition (11/2)
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- Tennessee's Gold-Standard Preschool Not Effective After 2nd Grade (11/1)
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