by Empowerschools | Jan 22, 2018 | News
Education leaders, advocates, and policymakers interested in pushing more decision-making, budget flexibility, and ownership to the school level can hear lessons from Colorado’s first independently run innovation zone of public schools – thanks to a new case study and...
by Empowerschools | Feb 29, 2016 | News
New Haven Register – “When schools under-perform, experts often are called upon to transform educational outcomes for the students. The Residency Program for School Leadership, a collaborative program between Achievement First and New Haven Public Schools,...
by Empowerschools | Dec 10, 2015 | News
The Hill – “President Obama on Thursday signed a sweeping rewrite of the controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law. Obama called the proposal “a Christmas miracle” during a signing ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “This...
by Empowerschools | Nov 17, 2015 | News
“Approval of the hybrid test came on an 8-3 vote Tuesday after two years of debate over whether to replace the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test with the PARCC test. PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for...
by Empowerschools | Sep 22, 2015 | News
NECN – Public school students in third through eighth grades who took the PARCC exams last spring were less likely to perform well on that test than those who took the traditional MCAS exams, the state education department said Monday in releasing results from...
by Empowerschools | Aug 18, 2015 | News
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