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Boulder public schools work to provide more special-ed in regular classrooms

Boulder Valley School District is trying to change the way it delivers special education and has enlisted national experts to help make school more inclusive for students with disabilities. Hundreds of Boulder teachers are in summer training in techniques for keeping more kids with disabilities in general-education classrooms The new model will be tested in lab schools.

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Troubled teens stay clean at safe-haven schools

Advocates for teen substance abuse treatment who gathered in Boston last week said more school districts are looking to sobriety-intensive high schools as an alternative approach to keep kids clean.

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CMS hopes to avoid student assignment turmoil
New topics in public education evoke as much angst as student assignment. In Raleigh, sudden, drastic changes have led to community turmoil, with protests and arrests at school board meetings.

Charter debate: Parents have long fought for better school alternatives

It was also a sign that the stalemate over school reform is breaking decisively in the direction of charters.


Unexpected voices join the battle to improve the quality of education

THE STORIED Anti-Defamation League, one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations, is fervent about the separation of church and state.


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