By IGNAZIO MESSINA
October 18, 2007
The Toledo Blade
The Toledo Public School District had 18 percent of its students enrolled in public charter schools last academic year, making it the fifth-largest percentage of any major- market community in the United States, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said yesterday.
Twenty-nine communities placed in the group’s Top 10 […]

The Lantern
10/17/07
By Mark Miller
Imagine a high school where students are not called freshmen or sophomores because that indicates “butt time in the seat,” as President and CEO Carl Kohrt of Battelle said.
Imagine a high school where students have a say in how the school is run, so they are not just what Kohrt calls, “chickens […]

By DAVID J. CROSS
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:23 PM EDT
The Columbus Dispatch

Early estimates show fewer students left Columbus City Schools this school year than initially expected.
With the official number still is being calculated, district officials expect to see the Columbus student population drop by less than 1,500 students from last year’s enrollment. The 2007-08 operating […]

 By JOSEPH BERGER
October 17, 2007
The New York Times
NEW ORLEANS
Despite the heartbreaking destruction it left behind, Hurricane Katrina created tantalizing opportunities, including the chance of a fresh start for a majority of this city’s schools, which had been among the nation’s worst.
The remedy that officials chose was to turn 40 of the roughly 80 salvaged schools […]

The Cincinnati Enquirer
10/16/2007
BY BEN FISCHER
While campaigning for a 9.95-mill tax levy this fall, Cincinnati Public Schools officials and supporters tell the story of a high-achieving district.
“We outperform our peers,” Treasurer Jonathan Boyd said at an Oct. 1 speech in Bond Hill.
In a recent online commercial, teachers union chief Tim Kraus said the city’s teachers are […]