Union Leader, NH: NH’s first virtual high school to open in January - Virtual Learning Academy will be the first virtual charter school for New England, following a school-funded virtual program set up in Maynard, Mass.

Minneapolis Start-Tribune, MN: A course in marketing - School choice in St. Paul and Minneapolis used to mean magnet schools, busing and desegregation — a way to balance diversity and keep middle-class families. But as charter schools and open enrollment siphon thousands of students away, choice now means persuading parents to choose traditional public schools.

St. Petersburg Times, FL: School plan: Out with the old - Breaking the tradition of 36 years of efforts to racially balance schools, one county’s schools set the tone - it’s time for more schools to adopt choice-centered plans.

Providence Journal, RI: State policies make it hard for principals and parents to talk freely - If the governor, legislature and the public are serious about improving schools, they need to admit that a principal’s job is difficult to the brink of impossible.

WRAL.com, NC: Judge tired of excuses: Public Schools Failing N.C. Students - "Your instructional leadership is not doing the job in the classroom," Judge Howard Manning told a group of local educators, legislators and testing experts who comprise the state Board of Education’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability.