White House Summit Will Highlight Religious Schools
New York Sun, NY, April 24, 2008
President Bush will highlight the increasing alarm over the plight of the nation’s inner-city Catholic schools today with a summit at the White House.

Re-reading ‘A Nation at Risk’
Los Angeles Times, CA, April 24, 2008
Twenty-five years after “A Nation at Risk” warned about the "rising tide of mediocrity" in U.S. public schools, the landmark federal report seems strangely prophetic — and eerily descriptive of some of Los Angeles’ woes today.

Clueless in America
New York Times, NY, April 22, 2008
At the moment, no one seems to have the will to engage any of the most serious challenges facing the U.S.

Charter Bill Irks District
Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA, April 24, 2008
New legislation that gives state-appointed charter schools more access than ever to local education dollars has riled Decatur city school officials so much that they want an opinion from their attorney.

Strickland Owes Clarity On Education
Columbus Dispatch, OH, April 24, 2008
Strickland then demonstrated that he fully intended to keep his promise to the teachers union when he unveiled his first biennium budget. He called for an ironclad moratorium on charter schools…

With Its Charter School Struggling, Union Should Be Learning
New York Daily News, NY, April 24, 2008
Many school reformers were unhappy when the United Federation of Teachers, the local teachers union, opened its own charter school in East New York back in 2005. I was delighted.
(Hat tip to Whitney Tilson.)

Magna Charters
Philadelphia Daily News, PA , April 24, 2008
The School Reform Commission’s decision last week not to renew the Germantown Settlement and Renaissance charter schools showed that the SRC…has gotten some backbone when it comes to its 61 charters.

Bill Likened To Voucher System Fails Passage
Tulsa World, OK , April 24, 2008
A bill to give tax credits to corporations and individuals who pay the tuition of low-income students attending private schools failed in the House on Wednesday.

Bill Would Give Parents More School Choice
News10, CA, April 24, 2008
A Sacramento-area legislator has introduced a bill that would allow parents whose children attend low-performing schools to transfer their kids to another school or receive a tax credit.

Four More Southern California Charter Schools Are Certified
Los Angeles Times, CA, April 23, 2008
The schools were added to a list, now up to 73, of "certified charter schools," singled out for their adherence to high academic, fiscal, ethical and governance standards.