Category: General News
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Private Schools, Public Dollars
Tuesday, February 6, 2001 in Inferior public schools should be held accountable for the damage they do to schoolchildren. But abandonment of the public school system should be a last resort, to be used only when school districts can’t or won’t improve bad schools or close failing ones. President Bush has wisely incorporated that philosophy…
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Educational remedies: Look to alternative schools
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 in by Noelle Nikpour The serious shortcomings of the American K-12 education system have received significant media focus over the past year following the release of several documentaries that spotlight its failures — most notably the recent movie aptly titled “Waiting for Superman.” America has doubled its spending on public education…
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Children’s Scholarship Fund Mourns the Loss of Co-Founder and Co-Chair Ted Forstmann
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 It is with great sadness that Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) announces that its co-founder and co-chair, Theodore J. (Ted) Forstmann, has passed away. “Ted Forstmann was a great philanthropist who leveraged his business acumen to start Children’s Scholarship Fund along with my late husband, John Walton, changing thousands of lives for…