Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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A House subcommittee voted last week to expand the state’s controversial private school tax credit program, designed to help students afford the switch from public school to private school. In a guest column today, a school choice advocate advises that any expansion needs to be accompanied by more transparency in how students in the program perform academically. In my column, I discuss the national push for greater accountability for under-performing charter schools, and readers sound off on cheating.
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