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Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: Charters' 10th ...

This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, race, class, and gender issues with additional focus at the national level. This blog reflects the work and contributions of both University of Texas Professor Angela Valenzuela and UT Education, Policy and Planning doctoral student, Patricia D. Lopez. The high school drop, alarming because students now must pass AIMS to graduate, could spill into view when the state begins this fall to crack down on poorly performing charter schools. This is the first year charter schools could wind up on the state's failing-schools list, based largely on Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards results. Up to 14 schools, including nine that teach high school students, could make the list and face possible closure. A report presented to the board this week concluded that Arizona students transferring from districts to charters have lower levels of academic achievement than other students, which means they are harder to educate. The study, by Arizona State University Assistant Professor David Garcia and the charter board's staff, looked at 390,000 students in Grades 2 through 8.

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