By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch
2/29/2008
The question of whether a pro-charter-school political action committee violated Ohio law in 2006 by accepting and spending more than $850,000 funneled through Virginia will have to wait.
The Ohio Elections Commission surprised government attorneys yesterday when, instead of hearing arguments in the case involving the group called All Children Matter, it […]

We recently asked community leaders what reading materials they recommend to better understand and stay abreast of education issues. Here are a few of the responses that we received.

 The New York Times
2/27/2008
By Sam Dillon
Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic history and literature questions in a phone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one in four said Columbus sailed to the New World some time after 1750, not in 1492.
The survey results, released on Tuesday, demonstrate that […]

 D.C. Contacts Private Groups to Aid Ailing Sites
By V. Dion Haynes
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Washington Post
2/26/2008
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee are seeking educational management firms or universities to possibly run some or all 27 schools whose students chronically perform poorly.
At a news conference yesterday with Fenty (D), Rhee said […]

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