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Minnesota Schools Still Separate, Still Unequal

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 11:20am

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court made one of the most important decisions in this nation’s history in Brown v. Board of Education.

Twin Cities Daily Planet

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Schools Need Strategic Spending, Smart Accountability

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 9:57am

The education dynamic setting up in this year’s Legislature goes like this: School superintendents and teacher groups are pressing legislators to restore school funding that was cut in the 2011 session while also pushing for a new way of measuring and testing students and their schools.

DallasNews.com

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Tucson Continues to Struggle with Desegregation Plans

News Update

Alison DeNisco

District Administration, Feb 2013

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Arkansas Schools Ask State Supreme Court Not to Reconsider Property Tax Ruling

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 8:43pm

School districts involved in a lawsuit over school funding are asking the state Supreme Court not to reconsider its ruling that allows districts to keep excess property tax revenue if they raise more money than what is set under Arkansas' funding formula.

Arkansas Business

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Miami-Dade Teachers’ Book Club a Think Tank on School Reform

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 9:48pm

Across the country, education reform is drawing big ideas and big bucks from some big names.

Miami Herald

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New Ind. State Schools Leader Learning Lessons in Politics

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 9:10pm

Indiana’s new schools superintendent, Glenda Ritz, is making some allies in the Statehouse: Republican legislators who pushed the education-reform laws that triggered a wave of voter discontent that carried the Democrat Ritz into her new job.

News and Tribune

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Schools Capitalize On Direct Shot At Federal Funds

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 9:05pm

Gov. Rick Perry had called it “foolish and irresponsible” for Texas to apply for funds from the Obama administration’s signature education initiative. He feared Race to the Top funding would come with too many federal mandates on how to run classrooms in his state.

AP via CBS

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Teachers, Others Head to Tacoma (Wash.) to Learn About Charter Schools

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 9:02pm

If turnout at a charter school conference held Saturday in Tacoma is any measure, there’s definitely some interest in the independently managed, publicly financed schools that were approved by voters in November.

The News Tribune