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Welcome to Boston, Families for Excellent Schools!
A few Excellent tips (and one Excellent idea) to help you stand out in a crowded field… Setting up shop in a brand new city can be tough—especially when the ground you’ll be trodding upon is already...
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Open Doors, Open Hearts
The exponential rewards of being unafraid… When I walked through the door of José Vilson’s New York City classroom recently, I was in search of something very particular: hope. You see, after a week in...
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Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
The charter express bears down on the Bay State… It’s math time, reader, and today’s problem is an excellent one. Ready? What do you get when you subtract 1,001,279 from 1,041,640? If you answered...
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Support Your Friendly Neighborhood Edu Blogger
The man to whom I’m *technically* married, AKA the Littlest Bolshevik. Blame the omnipresent holiday nog, but this is typically the time of year in which some of my boldest, most disruptive ideas...
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Charlie Baker’s Army
The Bay State’s new governor has a bold plan to bring fresh New Schools to Massachusetts… It’s a new day in Massachusetts, reader. And the Bay State’s new captain, Charlie Baker, has a bold new plan to...
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Burning the Village to Save It
*Repentant reformer* Jorge Cabrera talks to me about what’s wrong with the education reform movement… EduShyster: You recount hearing a leader of the education reform movement state that sometimes *you...
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Can You Spare $91,440?
Because that’s how much seven Boston charter schools are charging to answer a public records request… Here’s a math question for you, reader. Say one wanted to submit a public records request to a...
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All in the Family
Has Massachusetts Secretary of Education Jim Peyser been lobbying himself? Update: Families for Excellent Schools shared via Twitter that Peyser is no longer on their board. No word on why the...
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Family Affair
Political scientist Maurice Cunningham says the campaign to lift the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts is driven by GOP operatives and a handful of wealthy Republican families… EduShyster: Ads in...
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Black and White
I talk to Yawu Miller of Boston’s Bay State Banner about the red-hot debate over charter school expansion in Massachusetts—and what *thought leaders* are getting wrong… EduShyster: In a few weeks,...
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Families for Excellent Trains
The campaign to lift the charter school cap in Massachusetts goes off the tracks… Around the 20 minute mark of Arne Duncan’s talk, I began to choke. I’d made it through Duncan’s endorsement of Question...
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Open Doors, Open Hearts
TweetThe exponential rewards of being unafraid… When I walked through the door of José Vilson’s New York City classroom recently, I was in search of something very particular: hope. You see, after a...
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Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
TweetThe charter express bears down on the Bay State… It’s math time, reader, and today’s problem is an excellent one. Ready? What do you get when you subtract 1,001,279 from 1,041,640? If you answered...
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Support Your Friendly Neighborhood Edu Blogger
TweetThe man to whom I’m *technically* married, AKA the Littlest Bolshevik. Blame the omnipresent holiday nog, but this is typically the time of year in which some of my boldest, most disruptive ideas...
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Charlie Baker’s Army
TweetThe Bay State’s new governor has a bold plan to bring fresh New Schools to Massachusetts… It’s a new day in Massachusetts, reader. And the Bay State’s new captain, Charlie Baker, has a bold new...
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Burning the Village to Save It
Tweet*Repentant reformer* Jorge Cabrera talks to me about what’s wrong with the education reform movement… EduShyster: You recount hearing a leader of the education reform movement state that sometimes...
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Can You Spare $91,440?
TweetMake that $111,039.50… Update: Since I posted this story, a new study has officially confirmed what was already evident. Massachusetts has among the worst public records access in the country,...
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All in the Family
TweetHas Massachusetts Secretary of Education Jim Peyser been lobbying himself? Update: Families for Excellent Schools shared via Twitter that Peyser is no longer on their board. No word on why the...
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Family Affair
TweetPolitical scientist Maurice Cunningham says the campaign to lift the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts is driven by GOP operatives and a handful of wealthy Republican families… EduShyster:...
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Black and White
TweetI talk to Yawu Miller of Boston’s Bay State Banner about the red-hot debate over charter school expansion in Massachusetts—and what *thought leaders* are getting wrong… EduShyster: In a few weeks,...
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