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WEBINAR: When Cyberbullying Spills into Schools on Thursday 2/23 from 2-3 p.m. Link to full text >>
An indie charter school founder shares her school's efforts to provide their students with access to healthy food. Link to full text >>
This article focuses on what happens to children and their families when their charter school is slated to close. Link to full text >>
Inside three nondescript former office buildings in the eastern Las Vegas Valley lies Explore Knowledge Academy, Nevada’s first “iSchool,” where students as young as kindergartners use novel technology to learn traditional subjects. Link to full text >>
Rock Center Special Correspondent Chelsea Clinton visits Central Falls, R.I., where a public school and charter school have formed a unique partnership to better serve their students. Rather than compete with one another, a group of public school teachers are working with teachers from The Learning Community charter school to devise programs that have already raised students’ test scores. Link to full text >>
The governor of Connecticut wants to open five new charters in the state as well as revise the per pupil funding amount for charters in the state. Link to full text >>
Gov. Brian Sandoval described today's first meeting of the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority as “historic,” and he called on the new group formed as a result of 2011 legislation to help expand charter schools to provide more choice to parents and students. Link to full text >>
ASAP Innovation Competition - a nationwide competition designed to identify and reward innovative and impactful physical activity programs and technologies with excellent promise to motivate quality physical activity at school and beyond. Link to full text >>
Upcoming webinar on February 22, 2012, 3 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time will review the research about effective literacy instruction for ELLs and discuss how charter school educators can help ELLs navigate the complex texts that will be required under the Common Core State Standards. Link to full text >>
Charter school advocates are wary of a new law that may force charter school teachers out of their state's pension plans. Link to full text >>
This article features an independent charter school from Milwaukee and their quest for creating a strong culture within the school. Link to full text >>
The Center for School Health in the College of Education at Wayne State University along with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Michigan Fitness Foundation invite Michigan elementary schools to apply for a Building Healthy Communities grant to implement a healthy school transformation during the 2012-2013 school year. Link to full text >> |
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