Abby Rapoport
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Fighting for Schools at Home and Statewide
John Folks doesn’t seem like the sort of guy to rev up a crowd. With white hair and a friendly twang, the 63-year-old superintendent [...] Full Story -
Fighting for Schools at Home and Statewide
John Folks doesn’t seem like the sort of guy to rev up a crowd. With white hair and a friendly twang, the 63-year-old superintendent [...] Full Story -
Virtual Schools, Virtually Unregulated?
At this point, the Texas Virtual Academy shouldn’t exist. Under the state’s accountability rules, the school should have been shut down or overhauled after [...] Full Story -
Virtual Schools; Not-So-Virtual Loopholes
At this point, there shouldn’t be any more Texas Virtual Academy. It should have shut down because it failed to meet state standards two [...] Full Story -
Education Products For Sale – But Who’s Got Money to Buy?
It was like the Grand Bazaar for schools. Stretched out across the Austin Convention Center exhibition hall this weekend was every product a superintendent [...] Full Story
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For God’s Sake
On a drizzly, gray November day, the First Federated Church in Des Moines looked particularly formidable. The mega-church is a gigantic brick building, a [...] Full Story -
The Brains Behind the Curtain
Rick perry has said that his 2010 book “Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington” is not the kind of book one [...] Full Story -
The V.I.P. Room
It’s difficult to describe Phil Wilson’s profession. Over the past decade, Wilson, 44, has slid through six very different jobs in Texas politics. In [...] Full Story -
Fighting for Schools at Home and Statewide
John Folks doesn’t seem like the sort of guy to rev up a crowd. With white hair and a friendly twang, the 63-year-old superintendent [...] Full Story -
Fighting for Schools at Home and Statewide
John Folks doesn’t seem like the sort of guy to rev up a crowd. With white hair and a friendly twang, the 63-year-old superintendent [...] Full Story
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