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Back to school for the billionaires

By Rita Beamish

Business titans find reforming schools much harder than just writing checks

Grading the billionaires on education reform

Billionaires deliver B-minus to C-minus grades on education reform

Poor schools didn’t have enough time to plan spending of $3 billion stimulus windfall

By Corbin Hiar

$3 billion stimulus windfall to poorly-performing schools didn’t allow enough planning time
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Disclosure ranking

By The Center for Public Integrity

Nationwide numbers on state agencies that monitor campaign finance data

Many public schools on military bases get poor or failing report card

By Emma Schwartz

Pentagon confirms nearly 40 percent of public schools on bases are in poor or failing condition

No Child Left Behind: A few bumps in the road

By The Center for Public Integrity

The No Child Left Behind Act suffers from inadequate funding and inflexible program guidelines
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Reading First: Scandalous and ineffective

By The Center for Public Integrity

Allegations that the reading program pressured states to adopt particular programs has prompted attention from the Inspector General

'School to prison pipeline' hit on Capitol Hill

By Susan Ferriss

Hearing probes 'school to prison pipeline' featured in center stories

Controversy over cops in schools flares anew

By Susan Ferriss

Push for more police post-Newtown runs up against concern about 'school-to-prison pipeline'