Read more charter school stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25600/charter-school.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:01:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/66734/la-mayor-wants-outsiders-to-run-failing-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe mayor of Los Angeles wants to allow outside groups to place bids for control of hundreds of the city’s schools, the LA Times reports. Antonia Villaraigosa’s education reforms would allow bidding by charter-school organizations and other education nonprofits to run 50 schools scheduled to open over the next four...http://www.newser.com/story/66734/la-mayor-wants-outsiders-to-run-failing-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Aug 2009 13:10:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66514/duncan-poised-to-be-most-powerful-ed-sec-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTight with President Obama and with $5 billion at his disposal, Arne Duncan may become the strongest education secretary in history, writes Nia-Malika Henderson for Politico . “Never ever have they had $5 billion to decide what to do in the education system,” says an education advocate. And it’s up to...http://www.newser.com/story/66514/duncan-poised-to-be-most-powerful-ed-sec-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 7:03:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65186/prez-to-unveil-4b-education-boost-today.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama will offer struggling states a carrot and a stick today, as he unveils draft guidelines for a new $4.35 billion education initiative designed to push charter schools, linking teacher pay to performance, and adopting common academic standards. The Race for the Top program, part of the stimulus...http://www.newser.com/story/65186/prez-to-unveil-4b-education-boost-today.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Jul 2009 6:46:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60901/michelle-sotomayor-ready.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichelle Obama threw herself into the Sotomayor debate today in a commencement address she gave to a DC charter school, Politico reports. She likened Sotomayor’s experience to hers and her husband’s, recalling people “sowing seeds of doubt” about them. “Judge Sotomayor is more than ready,” she said. “I was more...http://www.newser.com/story/60901/michelle-sotomayor-ready.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Jun 2009 13:41:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56874/duncan-to-schools-uncle-sam-is-watching.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStates should be careful when spending their stimulus education windfall, because Uncle Sam will be watching, the US education secretary writes in the Wall Street Journal. “We will require an honest assessment of key issues like teacher quality, student performance, college readiness, and the number of charter schools,” Arne Duncan...http://www.newser.com/story/56874/duncan-to-schools-uncle-sam-is-watching.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Apr 2009 12:11:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52891/obama-to-push-merit-pay-for-teachers-in-schools-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a speech today before the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, President Obama will lay out his plan for American schools, reports the Wall Street Journal . Most controversially, the president aims to expand merit pay for teachers, a measure that Democratic teacher unions are traditionally leery of. If teachers develop...http://www.newser.com/story/52891/obama-to-push-merit-pay-for-teachers-in-schools-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Mar 2009 7:42:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36987/obama-runs-to-center-on-education-touts-charters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama will come out today in favor of merit pay for teachers, doubled federal support for charter schools, and other centrist strategies to boost American education, reports Time . In the draft of a speech he's giving in Ohio, Obama warns that teachers who fail to improve will “be replaced,...http://www.newser.com/story/36987/obama-runs-to-center-on-education-touts-charters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Sep 2008 12:04:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32212/gop-must-strike-back-in-the-burbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe GOP coalition—seemingly indomitable 4 years ago—is in shambles, losing ground “on nearly every demographic and geographic front,” write Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam in the National Review . Republicans must expand their base, and the writers have a plan: Seduce “the affluent, well-educated, increasingly liberal upper middle class....http://www.newser.com/story/32212/gop-must-strike-back-in-the-burbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Jul 2008 16:45:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21399/obama-quits-school-reform-talk-on-trail.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama has been backing off post-partisan rhetoric on education, looking more like a stick-in-the-mud Democratic regular on schools and less like the reformer who supported test-based accountability and performance pay for teachers. The Chicagoan had bucked teachers' unions and other stodgy liberals, supporting charter schools in Illinois and mentorship...http://www.newser.com/story/21399/obama-quits-school-reform-talk-on-trail.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Mar 2008 18:29:36 CDT