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Guest Post: Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville describes charter-like district ‘Innovation Schools’

Posted September 17, 2010

In a guest post for Education Innovating, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville describes the motivation behind that state’s recently-enacted Innovation Schools law, enabling districts to create schools with autonomy reflective of chartering. This significant systemic reform is similar to Boston's Pilot Schools, as well as Minnesota’s Site-Governed Schools law passed in 2009. Already in 2010 two new schools were created under the law.

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Innovation in Districts

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Autonomy, boston, Change Strategy, Guest Posts, Innovation, massachusetts, State Policy

Teacher unions across the country are starting their own schools

Posted July 14, 2010

Unions have been active in starting new, teacher-run schools in city-level innovation zones. The Boston Teachers Union started ‘The BTU School’ in 2009, and responding to a district call for proposals the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) opened the Math and Science Leadership Academy in 2009.

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Innovation in Districts

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boston, denver, Nationwide, teachers, TPPs

Guest Posts: Autonomy creates capacity to be different

Posted June 11, 2010

Video interviews with Dan French and Lynn Nordgren, who during an Education|Evolving meeting last June expressed their support for moving control over school form and function out to the front-line units, including teachers.

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