Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Our work group has had many questions on how a Community-Based Accountability process would occur on the local level (For CI’s full thread on Community-Based Accountability go here). I noted in a prior post that California had recently developed a Local Control and Accountability plan as part of their school finance reforms. I also noted…
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Want to hear from a TFA teacher about TFA? Look no further than the Harvard Crimson. Emma M. Lind’s message to applying Harvard students: February 15 marks the final deadline to apply to be a 2013 TFA Corps Member, and you should not click “submit.” Reblogged: Rethink TFA | The Harvard Crimson.
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If you loosely based the generations of accountability in Texas on the testing regime, you could say that with the STAAR, Texas is in the midst of its third generation of accountability (Pre-NCLB TAAS being the first and Post-NCLB TAKS the second). We know that the state currently spends nearly $100 million a year for…
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Jason Stanford wrote a BRILLIANT piece about Texas supposedly #4 in the nation graduation rates. This is journalist gold. In early January I conducted an analysis of the graduation data via a FOIA request. Clearly the Lone Star State is lying to the feds ala Atlanta and El Paso. Will the feds really allow Texas…
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Reblogged: How to Tell if Your Local Charter School Is Avaricious.
Cloaking Inequity 