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fromPadailypost
18 hours ago

School board won't force schools to offer advanced math

The Palo Alto school board rejected a mandate to offer Multivariable Calculus at high schools, citing concerns about overruling school-level educators and maintaining operational autonomy.
Education
fromFortune
5 months ago

This teacher quit crowded classrooms to run her own microschool-now she's earning over $100K and finally doesn't have to work a summer job | Fortune

Microschool leadership via startups can provide teachers greater autonomy, improved classroom focus, and substantially higher financial stability compared with traditional public or charter school roles.
fromwww.npr.org
6 months ago

20 years after Katrina, New Orleans schools are still 'a work in progress'

"I was so against charter schools. I thought it was the pits," says Mary Haynes-Smith, the school's longtime principal. Haynes-Smith didn't like what she'd heard from parents that they felt shut out by the private organizations hired to run the charter schools. But as New Orleans crept closer to becoming the country's first all-charter system in the 2010s, the handful of traditional schools left, including Bethune Elementary, started feeling more pressure. "It was a forceful thing," she remembers.
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