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Ohio Parent Trigger Pilot Program: Designed to Fail
by Heather Kays January 7, 2015According to Greg Harris, director of StudentsFirst Ohio, the state and Columbus School District have made little to no effort to let parents know about the parent trigger pilot program. Twenty schools in Columbus are eligible for reform under the state’s parent trigger law. The law passed as part of the state’s budget in 2011, and it empowers parents to decide how to reform chronically low-performing schools.
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First Obamacare, Now Obamacore, Part 3: Application Of Common Core Should Raise Your Dander
by Nancy Thorner December 17, 2013Common Core moves away from classics and toward informational texts such as government documents.