Marshall High and other turnaround high schools, in Chicago and nationally, face a thorny dilemma. Higher-performing students are being siphoned off through competition, driving down enrollment and raising tough policy questions about the future of these schools.
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Denver Adopting Ren10 -- Sort Of
By: Alexander Russo / May 15, 2008
Folks in Denver are developing a new schools initiative based in part on the Chicago model, according to the Denver papers -- except the Denver plan includes a proposed new school from the teachers union. The wags at the Fordham Foundation have already dubbed the new plan, Denver 5280.
"The legislature really shouldn't try to micromanage Chicago's schools--especially in ways they would never interfere in the state's other school districts."
Yeah, because that never...