School Choice Would Destroy the Public Schools? — Maybe Thats A Good Thing
Public-school defenders often argue that school choice would destroy the public schools. Almost 90 percent of children in this country attend public schools.

Several Urban Districts Post Gains But Most Score Below Nation in Nation's Report Card for Reading
18 School Systems Part of the NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment ATLANTA, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Several of the 18 participating U.S. urban school districts produced reading scores that exceeded the average for large cities, and a few posted gains over their scores in previous years, according to the results of a special survey by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "The Nation's Report Card." However, overall scores for fourth and eighth graders in most of these districts continue to lag behind their peers nationwide. The NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) tested representative samples of between 800 and 2,400 fourth and eighth grade students in each of the 18 large school district ...

Stamford Public Schools Launches Newly Redesigned Website for Improved Information Access
Stamford Public Schools today launched a new web presence that is more accessible to all of its stakeholders - teachers, students, parents, community members, and prospective parents. In partnership with QScend Technologies, the school system redesigned its site to be easier to navigate, more intuitive, and more flexible than its old site.