
The ‘third way’ in education
Commonwealth Magazine – “POLARIZATION AND TRENCH WARFARE, the partisan watchwords these days in Washington, have also come to define education debates. In Massachusetts, as much as $30 million could be spent between now and November in what promises to be...
New Orleans Plan: Charter Schools, With a Return to Local Control
New York Times – “Nothing has defined and even driven the fractious national debate over education quite like this city and the transformation of its school system in the decade since Hurricane Katrina. Reformers say its successes as an almost all-charter,...
Parents, students excited about Up Academy taking over Kennedy Middle School in Springfield
Mass Live – Alejandra Rivera, 12, plans to be the president of the United States one day. “Or maybe a judge,” said the sixth grader at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Springfield. Recently Alejandra’s mother, Jacqueline Rosario, joined several...