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Funding problems found in charter school construction program

Tony Kennedy of the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reports that some of the state's charter schools have found a loophole in the Minnesota law that forbids charter schools from owning property. […]
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Schools not made aware of tainted food supplies

An investigation by Blake Morrison and Peter Eisler of USA Today illustrates failures in food safety programs as schools unknowingly continued to receive food from suppliers with a history of […]
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Education, Inc. series

A three-day series by The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) examined the local charter schools run by national, for-profit Imagine Schools Inc., the largest charter school management company in the […]
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Drastic swings in test scores lead to questions of cheating

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found 19 public elementary schools statewide with extraordinary gains or drops in standardized test scores between spring last year and this year &#8212 raising questions of […]
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Contaminated drinking water found in schools across the U.S.

A 10-month investigation by Garance Burke of the Associated Press has found unsafe levels of contaminants such as lead and pesticides in school drinking water in all 50 states.  "But […]
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Accuracy of Florida school safety reports called into question

WFOR-TV (Doral, Fla.) conducted a six-month investigation into school violence in Florida and discovered "wide discrepancies" between the numbers of violent incidents reported on the state's Department of Education website […]
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Private school tax credits going to publicly-funded charter schools

In the most recent installments of its series on private school tuition tax credits, The Arizona Republic revealed that the system is so lax that publicly-funded charter schools have been […]
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Retreat pay a costly perk in UNC system

Dan Kane and Eric Ferreri of The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) took a look at a little known perk for University of North Carolina administrators known as "retreat rights" […]
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Many Dallas-Fort Worth graduates struggle in college

Holly Hacker of The Dallas Morning News looked at new data compiled by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that showed how Texas public school students from the Class of […]
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Rigged Privilege series

A three-part investigation by the East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.) looked at Arizona's Private School Tuition Tax Credits program.  "The tuition tax credits law was supposed to revolutionize school choice […]
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