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The $100,000 Plus Head Start Teacher?

New Orleans I admit a hot headline on the front page of the New York Times about paying kindergarten teachers $320,000 per year absolutely caught my eye!

The back story was straightforward.  A huge study under Project Star in Tennessee tracked 12,000 children in that state.  The study was trying to determine whether or not [...]

Democratic Accountability in School Boards

New Orleans In New Orleans we have seen the future of schools under a district-wide “choice” system and a charter school dominated program, and it is blatantly undemocratic and unaccountable.  That’s bad news. Add to that the fact that the schools don’t perform better either by most measures, and we are talking about a [...]

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