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April 23, 2008

‘Nation At Risk’: The Best Thing Or The Worst Thing For Education?
USA Today, April 23, 2008
Twenty-five years ago this week, Americans awoke to a forceful little report that, depending on your point of view, either ruined public education or saved it.

Choice Surges Despite States’ Fiscal Woes
Education Week, MD, April 22, 2008
…the school choice movement is gaining some ground as legislatures advance proposals that would indirectly funnel taxpayer money to families who want to send their children to private schools.

Charter School Movement Wins The Education War In District
D.C. Examiner, D.C., April 23, 2008
The war between the charter school movement and D.C. public schools is over. Charters have won, if victory means that charter schools are thriving and here to stay.

Arizona Educators Can Learn From Florida
East Valley Tribune, AZ, April 23, 2008
Startling statistics show that with abundant school choice and systemic education reform, Florida’s Hispanic students already eclipse the average academic performance of many states.

School Choices For Special-Needs Kids Is Matter Of Appeal
Tucson Citizen, AZ, April 23, 2008
In a state such as Arizona, where citizens value their independence, it is inconceivable that the state constitution would favor a bureaucrat’s right to choose a child’s school over the right of parents to pick the best learning environment for their child.

Charters Are A Lever For School Reform
Record-Searchlight, CA, April 22, 2008
Charter schools are the best thing to have happened to the public school system in over a century.

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