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Read CPS Statement on Boston District-Charter Compact

CPS raises critical questions about the Gates Foundation-backed compact between Boston district and charter schools. Read it here.

Listen to CPS’s Marilyn Segal on the Radio

If you missed CPS Executive Director Marilyn Segal's excellent appearance on the radio show Brunch with Brad, Sunday, Sept. 18, you can still listen to it via the The Brad Bannon Show's web page, here.

Judge: Parents Have Right to Challenge Gloucester Charter

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Sheila Decter, CPS board member and Executive Director of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, posted this about Judge Richard Welch III’s decision in the Gloucester Charter School case:

Where the Board and Commissioner of Education awarded a charter after the Department’s Charter School Office concluded that the school did not meet the

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Civil Rights, Community-based Groups Signal New Education Consensus; MCAS study finds ‘teachers are not to blame’

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Three timely and significant reports have been released in the past few weeks that signal a promising change in the public debate on education. A coalition of major national civil rights groups and another of community-based organizations have issued statements and recommendations strongly critical of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top initiative,

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New study finds no clear edge for charters

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Education Week reports on June 29, 2010 on a new national study of charter middle schools. The  report begins:

Students who won lotteries to attend charter middle schools performed, on average, no better in mathematics and reading than their peers who lost out in the random admissions process and enrolled in nearby regular

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