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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 New study shows greatest value for high achievers.
By Linda Jacobson
Education Week
2/25/2008
Reducing class sizes-a popular policy among parents, teachers, and lawmakers-has long been viewed as a way to increase student achievement.
But while shrinking the number of students in a class can lead to higher test scores overall, it might not necessarily reduce the achievement gaps that [...]

 2/22/2008
By Simone Sebastian
The Columbus Dispatch
The year-old Columbus City Schools Education Foundation announced yesterday that its first grant will go to United Way of Central Ohio to improve preschool education in the city.
The foundation has awarded a $50,000 planning grant to the agency to design a program that would locate and track every 3- and [...]

 Advisers press for second levy in ‘09
2/21/2008
By Simone Sebastian
The Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus schools will need to pass another bond issue by November 2009 to avoid increasing the tax rate for their school-construction project and dismantling the staff that runs it, advisers told a district committee yesterday.
In recent months, district officials have stressed the schools’ [...]