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School Reform News Roundup, Monday of May 21-26

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Florida to give a laundry list of things he thinks Florida does wrong on education. He suggested lobbyists are the reason the state has kept its private tutoring requirement for failing low-income kids. Though tax-credit scholarships have been put on the legislative back burner in Pennsylvania, Catholics in the state are rallying for their passage. Ohio legislators continue dickering over reading requirements for third graders. Philadelphia's School...

Louisiana Approves Education Tax Rebates for Donors to Low-Income Students

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) followed up new laws creating the broadest school choice state in the nation, including the largest statewide voucher program, by also signing into law Louisiana’s first tax-credit scholarships.  “[The credit] will give low-income students from mostly failing schools an opportunity to attend private schools that agree to participate in the program,” said state Rep. Kirk Talbot (R-River Ridge), one of legislation’s sponsors. The program provides tax rebates...

Multi-Pronged Education Reform Bill Introduced in North Carolina

A new North Carolina bill would end social promotion for third graders who read poorly, institute merit pay and tenure limits for teachers, create a state teacher training program modeled on Teach for America, and publicly grade public schools A to F each year. “One of the problems we’ve had down here is kids are not reading at grade level as they should be,” said Bob Luebke, a senior policy analyst at the Civitas Institute. “We find out that as kids go along and when they get behind, they’re...

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