Lesson Plan: Put Kids Over Teachers
Rocky Mountain News, CO, August 25, 2008
An eclectic mix of Democratic wunderkinds, tough-talking education reformers and one elder statesman - former Gov. Roy Romer - are challenging their party to step away from teachers unions and return to fighting for the educational rights of poor and minority children.

New Chief Seeks to Fix DC School System Where Others Failed
New York Times, NY, August 25, 2008
Just a year on the job, District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is making bold changes as she tries to accomplish what six would-be reformers in the past decade could not: rescue one of the nation’s most dysfunctional school districts.

Ga.’s First All-Girls Charter School Opens
Macon Telegraph, GA, August 24, 2008
This is not your typical public school. It’s Ivy Preparatory Academy, the state’s first all-girls charter school.

Helping Students Stay in Private Schools
Washington Post, D.C., August 23, 2008
The increasing challenges faced by families that wish to send their children to Washington-area parochial and independent schools were worthy of the front-page coverage they received ["Slump Squeezes Enrollment at Private Schools," Aug. 14].

Furor Over New Rules to Stem Top School Pay
New York Times, NY, August 22, 2008
WITH annual salaries that approach and in some cases surpass $200,000, New Jersey’s school superintendents have become the latest target of an effort to control spending in a state known for having among the highest taxes in the country.

School Shuffle Launches Growing Charter Choices
New Orleans City Business, LA, August 25, 2008
This system of schools has replaced the pre-Katrina single school system that was prone to corruption and kickback schemes and has given students something Vallas said they never had before — a choice.

Charter Growth
Baltimore Sun, MD, August 24, 2008
In the first few years of Maryland’s experiment with charter schools, Baltimore led the way with an explosion of new schools of all varieties.

Let’s Have An All-Boys Charter School, Too
The Chattanoogan, TN, August 24, 2008
An opinion piece was posted recently saying the school board had “thrown the boys to the wolves” by approving the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy

How BASIS Got to Be No. 1
Arizona Daily Star, AZ, August 24, 2008
But what the school at 3434 E. Broadway lacks in frills, it compensates for with accolades that just keep rolling in.

Fresno Unified Needs Charter High School
Fresno Bee, CA, August 23, 2008
As a retired high school principal in Fresno, I think any of our underperforming high schools would be a wonderful candidate for a charter school.