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	<title>Howard Rich &#187; Charter School</title>
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		<title>Study: Phila. parents want more school-choice options</title>
		<link>http://howardrich.org/2010/06/study-phila-parents-schoolchoice-options/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Philadelphia Inquirer

Despite the explosive growth of charter schools in Philadelphia in the last decade, city parents say they still do not have enough good choices when it comes to picking a school, Pew Charitable Trusts says in a study released Tuesday.
White parents whose children attend district schools give higher marks to the system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive marketplace needed for public schools</title>
		<link>http://howardrich.org/2010/06/competitive-marketplace-needed-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Huffington Post

The United States is rapidly losing ground to competitive countries in many facets of our economy, and it&#8217;s time to drill down to the defining source of the problem.
Many experts (including the most qualified: parents) agree our educational system is simply failing to deliver the quality education our children need to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Milwaukee story: School choice works</title>
		<link>http://howardrich.org/2010/02/milwaukee-story-school-choice-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From PittsburghLive.com

Here&#8217;s a report to make school choice critics reach for the Pepto: More low-income students in Milwaukee&#8217;s 20-year-old voucher program &#8212; 18 percent more &#8212; graduate from high school than their traditional public school peers.
In fact, if Milwaukee&#8217;s public school graduation rate matched that of students using school vouchers from 2003 to 2008, 3,352 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice Education Chiefs</title>
		<link>http://howardrich.org/2010/01/choice-education-chiefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Rich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia School Choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wall Street Journal

Kudos to the country&#8217;s two newest governors, Republicans Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Chris Christie of New Jersey, who have tapped strong school choice advocates to head their state education departments.


Last week, Mr. McDonnell chose Gerald Robinson to become Virginia&#8217;s next Secretary of Education. Mr. Robinson currently heads the Black Alliance for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Child Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://howardrich.org/2009/11/child-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Rich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Hoxby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charter School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City School Choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Wall Street Journal

Opponents of school choice are running out of excuses as evidence continues to roll in about the positive impact of charter schools.
Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby recently found that poor urban children who attend a charter school from kindergarten through 8th grade can close the learning gap with affluent suburban kids by [...]]]></description>
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