Archives for April 2010

Oped on Charters and Western MA Public Schools

In the April 8, 2010 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Aline Gubrium and Tim Scott, CPS partners in our March 27 conference at UMass/Amherst, have an excellent oped about the impact of charters on public schools in Western Massachusetts.

A stacked deck on school ‘choice’

by Daily Hampshire Gazette
AMHERST – In his March 29 article, “Keynote speaker assails Obama’s education policies,” reporter Nick Grabbe succinctly captured the substance of the Saving Our Schools: Defending Public Education conference that drew parents, students and education activists to the University of Massachusetts Amherst on the last weekend in March.

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