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IDEA Carver opens on San Antonio’s East Side
A roundup of stories about the first day back at school in San Antonio included this short segment about IDEA Carver: The IDEA charter school network opened its IDEA Carver Academy on the East Side, a...
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More stories on IDEA’s new South Side campus
I posted earlier about IDEA Public Schools’ announcement of a location for a new campus on the South Side. (UPDATE: IDEA South Flores) Here are some links to more coverage of that story: “College...
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Choose to Succeed launches new website
Choose to Succeed has a spiffy new website with helpful information explaining their mission: In 2011, the George W. Brackenridge and Ewing Halsell Foundations began to analyze student achievement data...
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News from Generation 18 charter interviews, including Carpe Diem San Antonio
This week, the State Board of Education is interviewing new charter applicants (full list in this earlier post), including Carpe Diem Schools–San Antonio (application). The school is known in education...
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Education Commissioner approves charter application from Carpe Diem San Antonio
As mentioned in this earlier post, Education Commissioner Michael Williams has approved a charter application from Carpe Diem Schools–San Antonio (application). Under the new process created by SB2,...
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[Gallery] KIPP Un Mundo tour; KIPP San Antonio hosts education roundtable...
Earlier this month, I went to a First Friday Breakfast at KIPP Un Mundo Academy; read more details about the event in this earlier post. The highlight of the visit was getting a campus tour from two...
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[Gallery] School Choice Week whistle stop at Sunset Station in San Antonio
Last week, the National School Choice Week whistle-stop tour visited Sunset Station in San Antonio for a rally that brought together groups representing many forms of school choice: charter schools,...
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Mayor Juilán Castro hosted the San Antonio meeting of the Mayors for...
Mayor Juilán Castro recently hosted the San Antonio stop of the Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour (MEET), a partnership among the mayors of four major U.S. cities to highlight educational...
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CLOSED [Giveaway] A parent-activist reads Richard Whitmire’s “On the Rocketship”
Richard Whitmire‘s new book, On the Rocketship, starts off right, with this dedication: To the true disruptors: Rocketship parents pressing for better middle schools and high schools. The author gave...
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