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14 hours ago ago from Larry Miller's Blog
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9 hours ago ago from Westlake Picayune
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22 hours ago ago from NYC Public School Parents
There’s great news today, and a holiday present for NYC public schoolchildren! Yesterday, the NY State Supreme Court rejected the city’s attempt to lease half of the sports fields on Randall’s Island to twenty private schools for the next twenty years, without first going through the mandated process, including review by the local Community Board and City Council. Class Size Matters helped organize this lawsuit in 2006, when the city ...
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1 hour, 33 minutes ago ago from Law and Education Blog
Has Chicago, the city of Obama, arrived at a post-racial era in its public school system? Last week, the New York Times reported that the city's public schools have decided to use student socio-economic profiles rather than race to assign students to schools. Those who believe that race is merely a clumsy and inaccurate proxy for socio-economic status will surely welcome the change as long overdue. For them, removing race as a factor ...
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